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dome n. Skeet is when you bust a nut. If yall didn’t know that your a dumb ass. The whole song is about gettin some dome. (Jun. 1, 2004) [full citation…]

post traumatic slave syndrome n. She outlined her case for “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome.” She said America still suffers from the pathologies developed by both blacks and white people as a result of the practice of slavery and the rationalizations for slavery. (Jun. 1, 2004) [full citation…]

fantasista n. Italy’s football jargon has a special term: “fantasista,” to sum up the qualities of players like Francesco Totti. It takes lots of inventiveness and class to be classified a fantasista—a player who can stun the opponents with a defence-splitting pass, an exquisite lob, or a sublime piece of skill. (Jun. 1, 2004) [full citation…]

desenrascanço n. “Desenrascanço” (you read that ‘the-zen-rascan-so’) is simply a slang word for the slacker art of coming up with some last-minute solution for a problem—and as a rule the solution will end up doing more harm than simply avoiding the problem (unless avoiding the problem is exactly that last-minute solution—a very common scenario). What I don’t get is the article’s connection between “desenrascanço” and those fake academic “traditions” which consist in the ritual bullying of freshmen. Unfortunately “desenrascanço” has far greater scope, and it is a true defining quality of being Portuguese—even perhaps what separates us from the Spanish. (May. 31, 2004) [full citation…]

beshert n. I am sad today because my Mother’s Day gift from our beshert child’s birth country’s gift to us was a demand for yet another document, one we have sent many times… Beshert is yiddish for destiny or soul mate. (May. 31, 2004) [full citation…]

ferkakdeh n. Ferkakdeh is Yiddish for “completely fucked.” (May. 31, 2004) [full citation…]

scale error n. “Scale error” is the researchers’ newly coined term for “remarkable behaviors” of children who attempt impossible feats with small objects, such as sliding down a toy slide suitable only for dolls. (May. 31, 2004) [full citation…]

Kazakhgate n. Nazarbaev has criticized the case, coined “Kazakhgate,” as an empty ploy by his political opponents but has seldom commented in detail on the allegations in the five years since they first surfaced. (May. 31, 2004) [full citation…]

post traumatic slave syndrome n. Randall Vogt is offering the untested theory, called post traumatic slave syndrome, in his defense of Isaac Cortez Bynum, who is charged with murder by abuse in the June 30 death of his son, Ryshawn Lamar Bynum…The slave theory is the work of Joy DeGruy-Leary, an assistant professor in the Portland State University Graduate School of Social Work…DeGruy-Leary testified this month in Washington County Circuit Court that African Americans today are affected by past centuries of U.S. slavery because the original slaves were never treated for the trauma of losing their homes; seeing relatives whipped, raped and killed; and being subjugated by whites. Because African Americans as a class never got a chance to heal and today still face racism, oppression and societal inequality, they suffer from multigenerational trauma. (May. 31, 2004) [full citation…]

smite button n. The church administration then gave its officers a “smite” button to use against guests using obscene language, sparking complaints that this violent act was an affront to Christian values. (May. 31, 2004) [full citation…]

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