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jigger n. A railcar ride is not like a trip on any comfy old commuter train. That is actually one reason the railroads once used railcars, which are also called speeders, jiggers or putt-putts. (Aug. 10, 2008) [full citation…]

speeder n. A railcar ride is not like a trip on any comfy old commuter train. That is actually one reason the railroads once used railcars, which are also called speeders, jiggers or putt-putts. (Aug. 8, 2008) [full citation…]

meteorwrong n. Nicklin said many people often mistake common terrestrial rocks for the kind that fall from outer space. He refers to them as “meteorwrongs.“ (Aug. 8, 2008) [full citation…]

digi-necking n. Rubberneckers attend to the spectacle so avidly that they themselves then get into accidents, slamming into the car in front of them when it brakes to get a better look or dig out a cellphoneto take a picture. (This happens often enough for traffic types to have coined a word for it: “digi-necking.”) (Aug. 8, 2008) [full citation…]

rifle shot n. Prodded by advocacy groups on both sides of the issue, members of Congress are considering various narrowly targeted proposals—“rifle shots,“ in Washington parlance—to ease or tighten the limits on legal entry. (Aug. 8, 2008) [full citation…]

touchdown space n. There’s also something called “touchdown space,“ which is an open air cubicle that an individual can lease if he can’t afford a full office. (Aug. 8, 2008) [full citation…]

backscatter n. Backscatter occurs when a spammer spoofs a legitimate e-mail address to send an unsolicited message to large distribution lists, causing the e-mail server to flood an unsuspecting e-mail address owner’s mailbox with hundreds or thousands of failed delivery messages or bounce backs. (Aug. 8, 2008) [full citation…]

decimal dust n. The thin wires that could carry the world’s information system directly and cheaply to every house in the city is on the order of what Sup. Ross Mirkarimi likes to call “decimal dust.“ Electrical conduit, which will one day be the backbone of a city-owned power system, costs a little more, but not that much. (Aug. 7, 2008) [full citation…]

thumper truck n. Dawson has deployed three trucks to test 30-square miles that cover neighborhoods and non-residential areas in and around Fort Worth. The trucks emit a vibration into the ground ranging from 10-120 hertz. Small white boxes placed at 180-foot intervals are recording stations that can pick up the seismic signal from up to two miles away.…What some companies call a thumper truck. (Aug. 7, 2008) [full citation…]

bathtub effect n. Of particular urgency to Conrad and Michel is how best to address the scheduled downsizing of the bases’ personnel and mission before the Predator and Global Hawk UAVs are scheduled to arrive in 2009. The “bathtub” effect—as the downsizing is called—will be most evident when the last fueling tankers leave the base and before the next generation of tankers arrives, currently projected for 2012. (Aug. 7, 2008) [full citation…]

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