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rotorhead n. Helitack crews consider themselves an elite corps within the fire service, which prompts a certain amount of ribbing from their fellow firefighters—most of it good-natured, some of it not. In conversations and on Internet message boards, they hear themselves referred to as “rotorheads” and “heli-donnas.” (Nov. 16, 2004) [full citation…]

heli-stepping n. Just dropping off the crew can be risky. The pilot might have to hold the Super Huey on one of its two landing skids against the side of mountain. Other times, the pilot hovers just above the top of the brush and the firefighters jump out. They call that “heli-stepping.” (Nov. 16, 2004) [full citation…]

hideawfulous adj. That is, until I got a look at the proposed sculpture. It’s hideous. Maybe hideous is a bad word. How about a new word like, hideawfulous. (Nov. 16, 2004) [full citation…]

cognitive radio n. That action brought to the fore founding research by Joseph Mitola, who coined the term cognitive radio (CR).…Derived from a need for more-efficient spectrum use, a CR fundamentally senses whether a band is being used and jumps in when the band is unoccupied. It jumps to another band when the primary user recommences transmissions. (Nov. 16, 2004) [full citation…]

rat hole n. She also started to learn the offshore patois used to describe the different parts of the platform: the dog house, the monkey board, the rat hole, the cat walk. (Nov. 16, 2004) [full citation…]

dog house n. She also started to learn the offshore patois used to describe the different parts of the platform: the dog house, the monkey board, the rat hole, the cat walk. (Nov. 16, 2004) [full citation…]

10/90 gap n. This disparity has been called the “10/90 gap,” a term coined after a commission in 1990 provided research showing that only approximately 10 percent of the resources spent on health research go to the problems afflicting 90 percent of the world’s population. (Nov. 15, 2004) [full citation…]

fonetography n. Nokia, which has coined the rather unlovely word “fonetography” to describe photos taken using a mobile, has invited artists and photographers—among others, Tracey Emin, Sir Peter Blake, Nan Goldin, David Bailey and Rankin—to test the phones. (Nov. 15, 2004) [full citation…]

BDS n. Until now, Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) had generally struck people with previously compromised intellectual immune systems. (Nov. 14, 2004) [full citation…]

giftmas n. (Nov. 14, 2004) [full citation…]

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