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twixter n. Meet the Twixters: Twixters not kids anymore, but they’re not adults either. Everybody knows a few of them—full-grown men and women who still live with their parents, who dress and talk and party as they did in their teens, hopping from job to job and date to date, having fun but seemingly going nowhere. Ten years ago, we might have called them Generation X, or slackers, but those temporary labels don’t quite fit anymore. (Jan. 18, 2005) [full citation…]

linglei n. Also unlike the young writers who are prone to present their rebellious attitudes and “linglei,” which is a word coined by Time magazine to describe China’s new young writers, Li Shasha showed he was a more mature writer. (Jan. 18, 2005) [full citation…]

linglei n. Linglei (pronounced linglay)—or “alternative”—was once a critical, even pejorative, way of describing dissidents. (Jan. 18, 2005) [full citation…]

linglei n. What happens when a booming consumer culture collides with an emerging counterculture? In China the result is linglei chic—advertising that associates products with the images of rebellion and individualism. The message is clear: buy me, and you too can be cool. (Jan. 18, 2005) [full citation…]

prophelies n. Some of us are familiar with the term “prophelies,” coined-I believe-to mean false predictions. And I must say that I am concerned about the folks who scare the living daylights out of some people with their prophelies. (Jan. 18, 2005) [full citation…]

goose father n. Lots of fathers are lonely. Prof. “J” is lonely too. His wife left Korea for the U.S. with their children to give them a chance to study English. They have a 9-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl. He sends money once a month to them. In Korean, we call him a “goose father” since a goose moves from place to find food for its young. (Jan. 18, 2005) [full citation…]

detail ranger n. PFC Haugendaus’ (I don’t know how to spell your name) in his rack. DETAIL RANGER!!! HOOAH! (Jan. 17, 2005) [full citation…]

grief v. If someone as generally mild-mannered…as me could grief with such ease, imagine what dedicated griefers could do.…To the true griefer, time wasted is irrelevant. They are preventing you from doing what YOU want to do—that’s satisfaction enough. (Jan. 17, 2005) [full citation…]

milkshake n. Van Clief’s comments came days after 17 people were indicted for an alleged plan to use a substance known in racetrack parlance as a “milkshake”—a mixture of bicarbonate of soda and sugar—to a racehorse in the first race at Aqueduct on December 18, 2003. (Jan. 17, 2005) [full citation…]

Google egg n. Google egg: A small piece of information [most likely a name or phrase] published on the web for the purpose of being “found” by a specific person(s), via an anticipated [or pre-arranged] search query. (Jan. 17, 2005) [full citation…]

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