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blumpkin n. “Blumpkin” is the practice of giving asomeone a blowjob while they are taking a shit. (Sep. 15, 2004) [full citation…]

gray GDP n. Some people argue that GDP cannot reflect the quality of economy comprehensively, so they call it “gray” GDP. (Sep. 15, 2004) [full citation…]

happening n. “If there was a big explosion around September 9, we would have found some evidence of it,” he said. “It’s highly likely that this explosion will turn out to be a ‘happening,‘“ he concluded. The English word “happening” is used in South Korea to describe a situation where a big fuss is stirred up over nothing. (Sep. 15, 2004) [full citation…]

al-box n. Seventy-eight fully grown men were fit in two police cars with the capacity of each only 10. Many Egyptian university students must know those cars quite well—they are referred to in Egypt by an English word borrowed into Arabic specifically for this usage: “al-box.” (Sep. 14, 2004) [full citation…]

anaspora n. A professor in Hawaii, however, had given it the old college try. He terms it “anaspora.” “The stem for ‘diaspora’ is speirein, meaning to scatter, and the prefix dia means apart. An antonym for ‘diaspora’ might take the form of anaspora, using the suffix an- or ana-, in the sense of ‘not’ or ‘backward’ as in ‘anachronism,’ ‘analogy,’ ‘anonymous’ or ‘anomaly.’ Those who have not scattered from home are in anaspora,” he explains. Sadly, he concludes, anaspora remains a neologism, an invented word without cachet. (Sep. 14, 2004) [full citation…]

kicks n. Kicks, meaning runners or shoes. “Hey, cool new kicks!” (Sep. 12, 2004) [full citation…]

OGA n. Prisoners were identified to military police by names such as “OGA 1” and “OGA 2.” The acronym, used by Defense officials to describe the CIA, stands for “other government agency.” (Sep. 12, 2004) [full citation…]

Narita divorce n. So familiar is the very short marriage in Japan that the parting has earned a slang name: Narita divorce, after Japan’s main international airport. (Sep. 12, 2004) [full citation…]

floor-crossing n. The fact that SA had the window of opportunity for floor crossing adds further value to this democracy every citizen has the right to choose the party they wanted to go to, and nobody is suppressed. (Sep. 9, 2004) [full citation…]

juniorization n. The survey spawned a terrible new word: juniorization. It covers a multitude of sins. When more experienced reporters left the profession because they were traumatized by covering the political violence that swept the country in the 1980s, or crime or AIDS in the 1990s; when talented reporters get snatched up at double their salaries by government or corporations as spinmeisters; when someone gets promoted beyond his abilities, and even when a reporter gets a story wrong, “juniorization” is the one-size-fits-all label used to shame newsroom denizens without mentioning explicitly that most of the “juniors” are black. (Sep. 9, 2004) [full citation…]

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