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interrupter n. CeaseFire tries to deal with these quarrels on the front end. Hoddenbach’s job is to suss out smoldering disputes and to intervene before matters get out of hand. His job title is violence interrupter, a term that while not artful seems bluntly self-explanatory. Newspaper accounts usually refer to the organization as a gang-intervention program, and Hoddenbach and most of his colleagues are indeed former gang leaders. But CeaseFire doesn’t necessarily aim to get people out of gangs—nor interrupt the drug trade. It’s almost blindly focused on one thing: preventing shootings. (May. 5, 2008) [full citation…]

strap n. A high-ranking gang member who was on life support after being shot, and whose sister was overheard talking on her cellphone in the hospital, urging someone to “get those straps together. Get loaded.” (May. 5, 2008) [full citation…]

liver-versary n. She was given a new lease on life when she became one of the first patients in London to receive a liver transplant.…Fisher recently marked the 25th anniversary of her transplant —"liver-versary,” as she calls it. (May. 2, 2008) [full citation…]

lollie booze n. The Government at the weekend increased the tax on pre-mixed drinks, often known as alco-pops or lollie-booze, in a bid to reduce binge drinking among particular demographics. (May. 2, 2008) [full citation…]

roller n. You are going along, going along and then you see these hills which are becoming bigger. All of a sudden, you are in the hills going up and down; in biking parlance they are called rollers. (May. 2, 2008) [full citation…]

get-there-itis n. Americans suffer from “get-there-itis.” Behind the wheel, the fixation on “getting there” ASAP causes people to speed, run red lights and weave through traffic. When nothing must stand in their way of getting from Point A to Point B, impatient drivers put the safety of everyone else at risk. (May. 2, 2008) [full citation…]

extinction n. But the thing is, as Natasha points out, the language of the slot machine industry belies its ultimate aims. There’s a term bandied about at the trade shows: “extinction.” We need to design for extinction, we need to reduce time-to-extinction, and so on. What’s extinction? That’s the moment that the customer—the gambler sitting at the slot machine—runs out of money. The wallet, or credit card, is now “extinct.” Mission accomplished. (Now, if we could just achieve that a little bit quicker with an improved design…). (May. 1, 2008) [full citation…]

logbook lending n. Increasing numbers of borrowers with bad credit records are resorting to taking out loans with exorbitantly high interest against the value of their cars, according to debt counselling charities. The practice, known as “logbook lending,” involves specialist companies lending up to 50 per cent (sometimes more) of the trade value of the car in return for crippling levels of interest, often in excess of 340 per cent. (May. 1, 2008) [full citation…]

hand-over-hand n. He seemed to like doing that too, even though to get him to paste the words on oak tag, the teacher had to use a technique called “hand-over-hand,” which is just about as discouraging as it sounds. (May. 1, 2008) [full citation…]

soil nailing n. Workers will use a technique called “soil nailing,” in which long pieces of steel are shot into the ground with a cannon-like device. (May. 1, 2008) [full citation…]

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