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paycheck game n. Youngstown St. was scheduled before the upset so even if the Buckeyes had second thoughts it was too late. This is a win is a win is a win of a game that is regularly referred to as a “paycheck game.” YSU picked up their big paycheck, got pounded 38-6 and left town bloodied but richer. (Oct. 18, 2007) [full citation…]

pot holing n. Pot holing refers to a conservation farming technique that involves making holes in the field. During crop production, inputs ¾ fertilizers/manure, seed, water, lime ¾ all concentrate in the prepared hole as opposed to being spread over an area in furrow cultivation. This concentration of growth enhancing factors around the plant significantly increases yield. (Oct. 18, 2007) [full citation…]

deconstruction n. Instead of having her 1,300-square-foot house bulldozed, she hired Jon Alexander, a contractor who shared her environmentalism and was willing to dismantle the home shingle by beam, and build a replacement with the same two-by-fours.…Ms. Keller was able to reuse around 90 percent of the original house.…Due to rising landfill costs, tighter recycling guidelines and the growing trend toward ecologically sound building methods, this sort of home “deconstruction,” as the practice is called, is starting to catch on. (Oct. 18, 2007) [full citation…]

pull v. Arm wrestling—or “pulling,” as the devotee knows it—has its subtleties, believe me.…Bean is a massive, radiant, heavy-booted man in his 50s, with a white handlebar mustache and, like other senior pullers whose hands I have shaken, a walnut-sized bolus of muscle at the base of his right thumb.…The victor meanwhile is expanding in rosy magnanimity. “Nice pull, nice pull,” says everybody. (Oct. 18, 2007) [full citation…]

flash v. These are the Seventh Annual New Hampshire State Armwrestling Championships…With John Pickering, in the parlance of the armwrestler, I got “flashed.” He went through me like he was shifting gears in his truck. (Oct. 18, 2007) [full citation…]

bear pit n. In an Australian first, politicians will be able to breastfeed their babies in NSW Parliament, under landmark rules. The controversial move is sure to ruffle the feathers of some male MPs who dominate Parliament’s lower house chamber, affectionately known as the “bear pit.” (Oct. 18, 2007) [full citation…]

SWATting n. SWAT officers expected to find a victim shot to death, drugs and a belligerent armed suspect when they surrounded the home of an unsuspecting couple, but found they were only a part of a false emergency call caused by a teenager who hacked into the county’s emergency response system.…Other law enforcement agencies have seen similar breaches into their 911 systems as part of a trend picked up by computer hackers in the nation called “SWATting,” Barnes said. (Oct. 17, 2007) [full citation…]

pass the trash v. phr. The reporting law is an attempt to stop the practice known as “passing the trash,” in which districts let problem teachers quietly move to another district. The law does not allow a troubled teacher to resign “for personal reasons” or for a district to conduct only bare-bones employment verification. (Oct. 17, 2007) [full citation…]

ibby-jibbies n. Now, personally I’ve always had the ibby-jibbies about putting my amphibians in my refrigerator, for fear of killing them. (Oct. 17, 2007) [full citation…]

dekitting n. About one hundred corps members in the Batch “A” NYSC 2007 serving indifferent parts of the country have appealed to members of the National Assembly, the National Universities Commission, Minister of education as well as human rights groups to come to their aid as they risk being stopped by the NYSC from completing their service after seven months in a process called “dekitting.”… “All of a sudden, in August, all of us serving were called back from service.…We want to go back and complete our national service. (Oct. 17, 2007) [full citation…]

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