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few penalties. 1978 Allen Abel Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (Apr. 24) “Spare Us the Tales of Hockey Heroics,” p. S1 ! Tonight’s game was a little chippy, conceded Roger Neilson. We’re trying to play as rough as we can. 1985 Chet Kaufman Baton Rouge State Times (La.) (Aug. 2) “North Looks Toward Gold in Ice Hockey,” p. 3-Spec. ! “The boys did get a little chippy” in Thursday night’s game, said North head coach Frank Anzalone. “We just don’t want to see the boys dropping our gloves and fighting and an American sports festival. There is no fighting here. We don’t tolerate it.” 1988 Globe and Mail

! Out of a somewhat chippy summit meeting in Moscow, the superpower leaders have agreed through gritted teeth that each side has a lot to learn about the other. 2003 NFL.com (Nov. 13) “Del Rio Excited About New Acquisition” (Int.) ! Speaking of Tennessee, things have gotten a touch shall we say “chippy” between your team and the Tennessee Titans, with whom there’s been a little bit of a verbal jousting going on this week. 2004 Christian Aagaard Kitchener-Waterloo Record (Ontario, Can.) (Aug. 25) “Special-Ed Spending Spree Bites Hand That Feeds System,” p. B1 ! Because the current relationship the board has with the top politician running the Ministry of Education—the hand that feeds—has, shall we say, been somewhat chippy of late.... 2004

Patrick Reusse Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) (Oct. 24) “Patrick Reusse: The Baseball Gods Must Be Angry” (Int.) ! The nonsensical night was not restricted to the ballplayers. Francona was wrapping up his interview session when a radio guy who had seen too many Patriots games asked: “Coach, do you think the long playoffs these two teams were in caused it to be chippy tonight?”

chocolate foot n. the foot favored to use or to start with when running, biking, or kicking; one’s dominant foot. Sports. [Perhaps a calque from the German Schokoladenbein ‘favored leg’ (literally ‘chocolate leg’). A similar German word is Schokoladenseite ‘attractive side’ (literally ‘chocolate side’).]

1996 Hans Rey, Scott Martin Mountain Bike Magazine’s Complete Guide to Mountain Biking Skills (Feb. 15), p. 116 ! Keep your pedals horizontal, with your “chocolate foot” (your strongest foot) forward.

1999 Scottish Daily Record (Sept. 20) “Roddy Gets It Right with a Bit of Luck” ! I turned inside a defender, created a bit of space and hit a shot with my chocolate foot, my right, and luckily it went in.

2002 Usenet: rec.games.roguelike.adom (Dec. 29) “Re: Left-Orium”

! “There’s even something like a ‘dominant leg’! You automatically try to take off from that one if attempting to jump. Try. You’d be amazed. There’s a phrase for that in German: ‘Schokoladenbein.’ ” “Chocolate leg? I’m going to assume that something was lost in the translation

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here.” 2004 Leonard Zinn Zinn’s Cycling Primer (June 1), p. 34 ! The first thing you must know before hucking yourself off a drop-off is which foot is your “chocolate foot,” as Hans “No Way” Rey calls it. Your chocolate foot is your favorite foot, the one you always keep forward when standing on the pedals.

cho-mo n. a child molester. Crime & Prisons. Sexuality. United States.

[child + [o] + molester]

1997 Steve Fisher TriQuarterly (Evanston, Ill.) (Mar. 22) “Windy Gray,” p. 169 ! “Dude’s a fuckin’ cho-mo,” said the other. “Or he’s a reverse cho-mo, what the hell, it’s almost worse than a child molester. Look at him!” 1998 Brian Smith Phoenix New Times (Ariz.) (Dec. 3) “Night in the City” (Int.) ! If you prove to me that someone is a cho-mo (child molester) around here, or stole from one of us, I’ll go get him for ya. 2004 Jon Hanian KBCI-TV (Boise, Idaho) (June 28) “‘Internet Crimes Against Children’ Unit Racking Successes” (Int.) ! Because they are talking about “cho-mo” which is prison slang language for child molester.

chones n.pl. underwear, especially undershorts or panties. Also chonies, choners. Mexico. Slang. Spanish. United States. [(Mexican) Spanish slang chones, perhaps from the Mexican Spanish calzones ‘underwear’ or less probably from the English long johns. The Oxford English Dictionary includes a 1717 first citation for poncho from Frezier’s Voyage to the South Sea in which Chony appears; however, it may be unrelated: “The Spaniards have taken up the Use of the Chony, or Poncho...to ride in, because the Poncho keeps out the Rain.” ] Despite its proximity to a mention of lingerie, chonies in the 1928 citation is probably a typographical error for chorines.

[1928 Gilbert Swan Zanesville Signal (Ohio) (Feb. 2) “See-Sawing on Broadway,” p. 3 ! These are the days when the buyers come to town in droves and herds; when the lingerie shows go merrily on in hotel and office building display rooms.... Those alluring photos of chonies in ticket brokerage windows.] 1972 Oscar Zeta Acosta Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo in Race-ing Masculinity (July 2, 2002) John Christopher Cunningham, p. 78 ! She asked if I wanted to see what was under her panties. To be quite honest I had never seen even the underskirts of my various cousins’ chones, so she lifted up her little red dress. 1984 Ema Yanes, Angel Arista @ Mexico, D.F. Revista Nexos

(Aug. 1) “Un año despues” ! Me sali con un fondo y unos chones gratis: me los lleve puestos. 1992 Louis Owens The Sharpest Sight

(Feb. 1), p. 178 (Sept. 1, 1995) ! How can I shoot hoops while my pants are drying in here?...It wouldn’t look good, the deputy sheriff

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bouncing a ball around in his choners. 1994 Usenet: soc.culture.asian

.american (Mar. 9) “Re: Singapore Airline Girls” ! My disclaimer here is that netters are an unrepresentative lot, so don’t getcher chonies in a knot, ’kay? 1994 Robert Kowalski Denver Post (Colo.) (Aug. 21) “Forgotten Firefighters,” p. A1 ! Chonies—Underwear, as in “You had better change those chonies.” 1994 Terri de la Peña Latin Satins

(Sept. 1), p. 67 ! Dígame, Jess. When did Chic decide to take care of the itch in Rita’s chones? 1994 Dennis Romero L.A. Times (Dec. 20) “More to Love; His Bod’s Larger, His Mane’s Tamer,” p. 1 ! They give me $150 an hour, tell me to strip down to my “chones,” and take pictures of me. 1996 Usenet: alt.punk (July 26) “Re: The Infections and Other Rip-Off Items” ! Chones means “dirty underwear” in Spanish.

1996 Gabriela Martinez @ Mexico, D.F. El Nuevo Inversionista (Nov. 1) “Glamour Lingerie: Con los calzones bien puestos” ! Con sus “chones” a otra parte Ante la tormenta, Glamour Lingerie por fin tuvo que reconocer que ya no existian mas las condiciones para que saliera a flote su producto, y no solo por la adversa situacion del mercado, sino porque entre las mujeres mexicanas no existe una cultura del uso de lenceria fina. 1998 Richard Montoya Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (May 1), p. 12 ! Thousands of tourists lose their collective chonies there each year in the barrio streets of their mind. 2000 Cathalena E. Burch Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (May 17) “Inside the Tucson Enchilada,” p. E1 ! Amy Blodgett, who runs a screenprinting business in Tempe and an Internet T-shirt business, concedes her “Keep It Underwear” line of chones won’t stop kids from having sex. 2002 Rick Redding Reno Gazette-Journal (Nev.) (Mar. 16) “This Kid’s a Marvel,” p. 1 ! He speaks some Spanish, excitedly describing the cartoon characters dotting his blue “chonies”— underwear—to his visitors. 2004 James E. Rogan Rough Edges

(July 1), p. 111 ! If they put on his socks and shoes, they probably put on his choners, too!

choosing money n. a fee paid as a demonstration of earning power by a prostitute to a pimp with whom she chooses to affiliate herself. Money & Finance.

1986 Helen Reynolds Economics of Prostitution (Feb. 1), p. 31 ! The process of “choosing” involves a woman deciding if she wants to affiliate herself with a pimp.... A woman who is attracted to a pimp may find that he woos her initially and then requires her to produce some money for him. Successful completion of the task of earning the “choosing money” means that a woman is “qualified” to work for the pimp. 2001 John S. Dickson Rosebudd the American Pimp (Oct. 3),

p. 303 ! She had said the right things to let me know she wasn’t bullshittin’, which is the purpose of choosing money.... If she chooses, out

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of spite or anger, and a pimp didn’t get any money, the pimp looks stupid. So for the protection of his pimpin’ image and to make sure of the ho’s intentions, he demands a choosing fee. 2005 Courtney Hambright New Times Broward-Palm Beach (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) (June 23) “Big Pimpin’ FLA” (Int.) ! Blue, whose real name is Robert Kramer, tells me this story to explain the concept of “choosing money”; it’s basically a dowry that whores give to a pimp when they want to join his “stable” of girls, he says.

chope v. to reserve (a place, a seat, etc.). Singapore.

1992 Marie Rose Glasmier Straits Times (Singapore) (May 25) “A Little Extra Learning,” p. L2-1 ! She did not think her children needed tuition, but five years ago, a colleague persuaded her to chope (book) a tutor who was a former secondary school mathematics teacher. “It all started when a colleague said: ‘I will chope a tutor for you.’ I said: “But my daughter is only in Secondary 2, she doesn’t need a tutor!’ My colleague said the tutor had taught her three sons and she is choped a year ahead—she has a long waiting list.” 1995 Straits Times

(Singapore) (May 4) “Digital Kopitiam” ! The dictionary, called Ah Kow’s Ingglish Dicksonairy, carries explanations for words such as “chim,” meaning difficult to understand, and “chope,” to reserve something. 1997 Usenet: soc.culture.singapore (Apr. 2) “I’m a Failure”

! i see all the Very Beautiful Girls all kena choped by all the Very Rich Guys in their Very Posh Sportscars. me—nothing. nothing. nothing. 2004 Hwee Ling verbiage or garbage?:O (Singapore)

(May 18) “Of Nude Bodies and Tissue Chopes” (Int.) ! Here’s an evidence of tissue choping i witnessed at Ikea yesterday while I was there for kopi...chope—(verb) local slang meaning “to reserve.” Example: It’s free seating at the concert, we need to get there early to chope seats for our group.

churched adj. having attended (Christian) religious services.

Religion.

1950 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) (Dec. 11) “Youth Church Proposed by Local Pastor,” p. 4 ! Mr. Kibby estimated that “hundreds of thinking, ‘un-churched’ teen-agers would welcome the opportunity of being part of such an organization.” 1978 Washington Post (June 16) “Book Indicates ‘Unchurched’ More Permissive,” p. A30

! The 7,000 Americans interviewed for the book were grouped in five categories—churched and unchurched Protestants, churched and unchurched Catholics and “those who have no religious identification.” The affiliated who attend church once a year or less were considered unchurched. 2000 Young-gi Hong International Review of Mission (Apr. 1) “Revisiting Church Growth in Korean Protestantism: A

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Theological Reflection,” vol. 89, no. 353, p. 190 ! This forces us to face the question whether the growth patterns of certain “successful” churches mainly represent their increased share of the churchgoing population, or whether they are attracting significant numbers of the formerly-churched and never-churched individuals to replace those being lost to the world. 2004 Heather Regan Southwest Daily News

(La.) (June 9) “Faith Community Growing” (Int.) ! Pastor LaFleur said that communities can be broken into three groups—people who attend church regularly, those who don’t now but once did and those never “churched.”

circuit bending n. the manipulation or modification of electronics or electronic instruments, via chance short-circuiting, to create sounds or (experimental) music. Music. Technology. [The term was coined by Qubais Reed Ghazala.] Reed Ghazala writes in a private note, “The addition of ‘chance’ to the definition is the key factor dividing bending from the more theory-true hacking. Bending is like Calder’s mobiles or Japanese suminagashi: dependent upon chance for its configurations.”

1997 Qubais Reed Ghazala Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments (Jan. 29) in Washington Post (Jan. 29,

1997) Richard Harrington “Just Playing Around; Experimental Instruments Tickle the Ears,” p. D1 ! While, in an attempt to confront reality, current “fuzzy logic” technologies confront chaos, the reverse-image clear illogic technology of circuit-bending, in looking at the other side of that same reality, implements chaos. Perhaps the much-lamented lack of human spirit within computers could be addressed through circuit-bending’s personalized electronic systems of organic eccentricity, a very human trait. 2002 Natasha Kassulke Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (Feb. 14) “Biff in Bloom; Musician Making a Name for Himself,” p. 3 ! [Biff Uranus Blumfumgagne has] invented a few instruments, including the Bat-tar (a heavy bat-shaped electric guitar), the Therolin (a five-string electric violin with a theremin hiding inside), and the Mando-synth (an electric five-string mandolin with a synth pickup and a whammy bar). “I enjoy circuit bending and experimental musical instruments.” 2003 Qubais Reed Ghazala Electronic Musician (Jan. 1) “The Art of the Creative Short Circuit,” vol. 19, no. 1, p. 86 ! The creative short circuit, or the technique that I call circuit bending, is a form of hardware hacking or modding, but with two important differences. First, whereas hackers usually know something about electronics, you don’t need any real knowledge of electronics to circuit-bend. Second, while most people hack an instrument with a particular goal in mind—such as increased frequency range or cleaner outputs—the circuit bender works impro-

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visationally and has no idea where the trail will lead. In circuit bending, the instrument shapes itself by telling the bender what it can do.

2004 Marc Weidenbaum Disquiet “Sacto Instruments” (Int.) ! Circuitbending reinforces the unique characteristics of physical instrumentation, without which discourse among electronic musicians might end up becoming little more than the sharing of home-coded subroutines (or “plug-ins”) for commercial software programs. Circuit-benders, hackers by nature, thrive on the quirks of the devices they choose to retrofit, bypassing owners manuals in favor of experimentation.

clean-skin n. a person without a police record; someone who does not trigger suspicions; (hence) an unimpeachable person; a LILY- WHITE. Crime & Prisons. Police. This term is more common in Australia, where it dates to at least as early as 1941.

1986 Jenni Hewett Australian Financial Review (Aug. 29) “Punch-Ups and Paranoia in the West,” p. 1 ! One of Simpson’s most important credentials as a candidate was his “cleanskin” image as a retired businessman with no involvement in the party’s bloody inner politics.

2000 John Sweeney Observer (U.K.) (July 9) “Menace of ‘Clean-Skin’ Drug Dealers,” p. 16 ! They use public transport, not Ferraris, pay their rent and council tax on time, hold down a boring job and never get in trouble with the law. These are the “clean skins” or “lilywhites”—the new drugs traffickers who dwarf the activities of the old English crime “families.” 2005 TodayOnline (Singapore) (July 14) “Model Citizens, Ruthless Killers” (in London, England) (Int.)

! The Times said that at least two of the men had just returned from Pakistan, but none were on the files of security services. This meant they were “cleanskins”—intelligence parlance for terrorists with no previously known link to suspicious groups, and thus incredibly hard to track down before they strike.

Clydesdale n. in running or road-racing sports, a heavyweight classification for (male) participants weighing more than 200 pounds; a runner in that weight class. Also attrib. Sports. [From the breed of large draft horse of the same name, via the Clydesdale Runners Association, which lobbied for weight division awards in running sports.] The upper limit for the classification can vary. A similar category called Athena is for women weighing more than 155 pounds.

1990 Craig Smith Seattle Times (Wash.) (Feb. 9) “The Weigh to Go—Clydesdales Starting to Leave

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Their Hoofprints on Racing,” p. D8 ! The Clydesdale Runners Association has been founded to lobby for the weight-division awards...[Joe] Law said the name Clydesdale was a natural because of its connotation of “strength and power.” He said before the name was adopted, people turned up their noses when he approached them about creating “heavyweight divisions.... They thought I was just talking about overweight people.” 1990 Usenet: rec.running (Nov. 14) “HubbaBubba” ! Equivalent times for runners of different weights. Based on results from races which have included “Clydesdale” weight divisions in their competition. 1996 Usenet: rec.sport.triathlon (Aug. 28) “More on Santa Barbara County Tri” ! Even though this is one of only 4 races this season with a Clydesdale/Athena division, don’t worry about placing, just enjoy the race. 2004 [Burns] First Day of the Rest of My Life (Nov. 12) “The New Me” (Int.) ! Being the big guy that I was, I was basically happy with that and quickly becoming one of the faster guys in my area over 200 pounds (“Clydesdales” in racing parlance).

CODEL n. a congressional delegation; a junket or fact-finding mission undertaken by members of Congress. Politics. United States.

1962 Drew Pearson Manitowoc Herald-Times (Wisc.) (Sept. 4) “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” p. 2T ! “Paris—Codel (congressional delegation) desires use of U.S. Army car and chauffeur. Reserve three for first show and dinner best table Lido 8-16.” The Lido is the Paris night club famous for its undraped girlies. 1978 Donald P. Baker @ Lisbon, Portugal Washington Post (Mar. 30) “Logistics, Cost of Trip Staggering,” p. A1 ! The embassy responded by assigning 22 employees to operation CODEL (congressional delegation) IPU. 1987 Mark Nelson @ Kiev, U.S.S.R. Dallas Morning News (June 7) “The Road to Moscow: If It’s Monday, This Must be Kiev,” p. 14 ! What follows is a brief diary of CODEL (congressional delegation) Wright, the official name for the trip the Fort Worth Democrat led to Madrid, Kiev, Moscow and Berlin. 2005 Cragg Hines Houston Chronicle (Tex.)

(July 2) “Do You Know Where Your Rep Is—and Who’s Paying?” (Int.)

! There are few more terrifying terms than “codel,” bureaucratese for “congressional delegation.”

Collyer n. an apartment excessively packed with junk, trash, or belongings. Eponym. NYC. United States. [After the Collyer brothers, who were discovered dead in their junk-packed apartment at 2078 Fifth Avenue and 128th Street, March 21, 1947. The two were hermits for decades. Homer was blind and bed-ridden; Langley took care of him. A booby-trap set for intruders trapped and eventually killed Langley; without care, Homer starved to death in his bed. About 140 tons of debris were removed from their

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home, including a Model T and at least 10 pianos.]

1995 Matthew Fleischer Village Voice

(Jan. 31) “Burning Down the Squat,” p. 15 ! A veteran firefighter called the job a “Collyer mansion”—packed and crowded with junk and debris like the old upper Fifth Avenue spread. 2003 Jeff Pearlman Newsday (Nov. 3) “Hoarding Hermits? A Typist’s True Tale,” p. B3 ! Still today,

New York City firefighters call junk-jammed apartments “Collyers.”

2004 Zoe Heller Daily Telegraph (U.K.) (Jan. 24) “Hoarding Drives My Boyfriend Mad,” p. 24 ! When firemen are called out to jobs at rundown, junk-filled houses, they call it “doing a Collyer.” 2004 Steven Schnaudt @ Washington Township, Mercer City, N.J. Firehouse.com (June 2) “New Jersey Firefighters Battle Two Alarm House Fire” (Int.)

! Engine 402 arrived on scene at 1:21 P.M. and crews entered the home with a 1 3/4 inch attack line. Crews were severely hampered by extreme “Collyers Mansion” conditions throughout the home.

colorway n. a color scheme in which a pattern or style (of fabric, apparel, furnishings, wallpaper, etc.) is available. Arts. Fashion. Jargon.

1949 Mary Roche N.Y. Times Mag. (Apr. 10) “New Ideas and Inventions,” p. 48 ! The second collection of Liebes-weave designs has appeared on the market, somewhat more intricate than the first, larger in scale, and in some colorways more suitable for big, bold decorative panels rather than retiring backgrounds. 1959 Kay Sherwood

Times-Mirror (Warren, Pa.) (June 4) “Color Sets a Cool Scene for Summer,” p. 7 ! Five color-coordinated fabrics in almost three-dozen different colorways (combinations) are inspired by the South Seas colors.

1980 N.Y. Times (Aug. 14) “Where to Find Reproduction Patterns,”

p. C8 ! Scalamandre Silks, 950 Third Avenue (361-8500), has specialized in reproductions and adaptations of antique wallpaper and fabric patterns for the past 50 years. Its collections include an estimated 2,500 different colorways (as opposed to patterns). 2004 Doug Rutsch Sacramento Bee (Calif.) (Dec. 3) “Taking a Shine to Shoes” (Int.) ! Lam doesn’t mind dropping $180 for new Jordan 5s with a white-black-and-red color scheme (“colorways” in shoehead parlance).

conehead n. a scientist; a brainy person. Also cone. Science. Probably influenced by pointy-head ‘a brainy or intellectual person.’

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Despite what the 1997 citation says, this term is probably also influenced by a series of skits and a movie about the Coneheads, hyper-literal and unemotional space aliens played by Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd, which first aired in 1976 on the sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live.” Cone meaning ‘the head’ dates to at least as early as 1870.

1986 Clifford Terry Chicago Tribune (July 25) “No Apologies Needed for This HBO Movie,” p. C5 ! The U.S. government’s CIA-like “Office of Investigations”...proceeds to form the elite but unorthodox C.A.T. (Counter Assault Tactical) Squad, rather than going with the usual operatives (“a bunch of Ivy League coneheads spinning their wheels all over the world”). 1997 Tom Sharpe Albuquerque Journal (N.Mex.) (Jan. 10) “The New Mexican Lexicon,” p. 1 ! Conehead. This has nothing to do with the space-alien routine made famous on “Saturday Night Live.” In Los Alamos, it means scientist, stemming from the unflattering “pointy-headed”—meaning too intellectual. Somehow, the folks at the lab have turned it into a badge of honor. They might say of someone whose intellect is in doubt, “His cone isn’t all that sharp.” 1999 Martin Forstenzer Ski (Feb. 1) “Remember Los Alamos,” vol. 63, no. 6, p. 58 ! People joke about the lab guys being coneheads—people who are all brains and live with a computer and that’s it. 2004 Santa Fe New Mexican (Dec. 20) “Getting a Glimpse at Lanl’s Challenges,” p. A7 ! Many Northern New Mexicans hired to do the construction and upkeep have tales about “coneheads” keeping ’em at bay when they show up to perform carpentry, plumbing or electrification jobs. 2005 CBSNews.com (Aug. 7) “Los Alamos’ Future Up in the Air” (in Los Alamos, N.Mex.) (Int.) ! Where scientists are never addressed as doctor because everyone has a Ph.D.; instead they’re affectionately known as “cones” as in cone heads.

cookie n. a screen, board, card, or cloth, cut with shapes or holes, used to throw a light pattern when shooting film or television; the light pattern thrown by such a device. Also cucoloris, cucolorus, cucaloris, kukaloris, kookaloris, cuke, coo-koo, kook, dapple sheet, ulcer, gobo. Entertainment. Slang. United States. [A claimed etymology is that kukaloris is Greek for “breaking of light,” but there seems to be no evidence to support this, nor can the etymological claims in the 2001 cite below be verified. Another claim is that it is named after its inventor, a Mr. Cucoloris; however, this, too, lacks supporting evidence.]

1994 Steven Bernstein Film Production (July 19) 2nd ed., p. 206

! Ulcers or cucalorises (cookies) can also be used on faces to create dramatic mood. 1997 Gerald Millerson TV Scenic Design (July 3), p.

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96 ! An all-purpose shadow device, known variously as cookie, cuke, cucoloris, or dapple sheet, has found regular use in all types of pro-

Ivan Curry Directing & Producing for Television (Nov. 29)

2nd ed., p. 28 ! Cookies. Also called coo-koos, or cucaloris, these metal or wood templates are placed in front of instruments to create shadow patterns, often of clouds or leaves. The word “cucaloris” comes from the Greek for shadow play. 2004 Johnny North (personal e-mail) (NYC) (May 4) “Re: Punishing the Light” ! The effect, he explains, though is what we would refer to as “modeling” the light, which involves taking it away in certain spots to create shadows and add mystery. One way to achieve this effect, and what I think he is referring to specifically, is by using a cucoloris, or a “cookie.” A cookie is a frame, usually made of wood that has a pattern of amorphous blobs cut out (sort if like camouflage) that gets rigged in front of a light source creating random pools of light and a lot of shadows.

Corrupticut n. a derisive or derogatory name for the state of Connecticut. Connecticut. Crime & Prisons. Derogatory. [The name stems from a series of corruption scandals, including one involving the state’s governor.]

2003 Paul von Zielbauer N.Y. Times (Mar. 28) “The Nutmeg State Battles the Stigma of Corrupticut,” p. 1 ! Nowadays, from Storrs to Stamford, there are jokes about living in Corrupticut, Connection-icut or, the new favorite, Criminalicut. 2003 Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, Conn.) (July 1) “Ganim Gets 9 Years” (in New Haven) ! “Connecticut is now derisively referred to as Corrupticut,” he said. “Bridgeport has earned a reputation as a place where politicians can be bought.”

2005 Carole Bass New Haven Advocate (Conn.) (Feb. 24) “Busted! Lennie Grimaldi” (Int.) ! Of all the fish in the Corrupticut Sea, the federal dragnet snags only a few.

counter-recruiter n. a person who, as a practice of belief or profession, tries to counteract enlistment efforts of the military. Military.

1991 Beth Shuster L.A. Daily News (N1) (Jan. 23) “School Board Votes to Stop Selling Names to Recruiters” ! The board’s action was praised by a counter-recruiter for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. 2004 Leslie Fulbright Seattle Times (June 3)

“Eastside Group Warns Parents of Military Recruiting in Schools,” p. B1

! The Bellevue father and some other Eastside parents are working to get the word out about recruiting activities in schools at a time they feel the armed forces are aggressively targeting their children. The parents are among a growing number of “counter-recruiters” nationwide. 2005 David Shrauger Living Iraq Journal (May 30) “Memories”

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