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ha la n. ha la—alexis p. and linda y.—boston, ma—1993—an expression for surprise. hawaiian pidgin for oh my gosh or no way! me: my cell phone bill was $200 this month. them: ha laaaa! (Aug. 29, 2004) [full citation…]

AP n. Whenever my son, living in Mumbai, was asked why he was going to Delhi, his reply was “to see my A. Pees.“ A.P. stood for aged parents. (Aug. 29, 2004) [full citation…]

mordida n. “Ya le dimos dos mordidas,“ he said. According to the government, Peña meant, “Well, we already gave him two bribes,“ and “him” referred to Martin. (Aug. 29, 2004) [full citation…]

capsuling n. “Capsuling” (or cabsala as they call it in Arabic) is a drug habit that has spread in Iraq over the last few years, only now it has become an epidemic addiction that the Al Mahdi Army thrives on. (Aug. 27, 2004) [full citation…]

cheezin n. Woke up it was 9pm I got up took me a nice warm bath then watched Nip/Tuck, got online and here I am *cheezin.* (Aug. 25, 2004) [full citation…]

O n. He said some of the arrested youths claimed they didn’t know they were smoking heroin when they first started using. They claimed to have been misled by street-slang or myths spread by drug dealers. “Dealers refer to it as ‘O,‘“ Cloward said. “And some kids were being told it was a natural herb because it’s derived from the opium plant. By the time they started using it, it was too late.“ (Aug. 25, 2004) [full citation…]

bump adj. Purdue University English Professor Samantha Blackmon says young people in her native Detroit no longer call music or CDs “cool,“ for example. “Music is considered ‘bump’ in Detroit,“ she said. (Aug. 25, 2004) [full citation…]

RDP n. How about RDP? The term means, “Re-use Domestic Products,“ the total sum of money spent on buying used goods. Most likely, the Japanese came up with the term, which cannot be found in dictionaries, for Japanese economists use it most. (Aug. 25, 2004) [full citation…]

hummer n. A “hummer” is slang term in the funeral business meaning a really smelly corpse. (Aug. 24, 2004) [full citation…]

Caribbeanism n. According to him, “Caribbeanism” was the application of Democratic Socialism across the region as a counter to the global spread of capitalism. (Aug. 23, 2004) [full citation…]

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