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Medical. This term is often explained to mean “the operation was successful but the patient died.”

1985 Dena Kleiman N.Y. Times (July 15) “Doctors Ask, Who Lives? When to Die?” p. B1 ! He spoke about how some doctors make a game of resuscitation; how the challenge for some young doctors becomes having patients die a so-called “Harvard” death, in which their blood gas numbers perfectly match those given in textbooks.

1989 Anne Burson-Tolpin Medical Anthropology Quarterly (Sept.) “Fracturing the Language of Biomedicine: The Speech Play of U.S. Physicians,” vol. 3, no. 3, p. 287 ! To die “a Harvard death” (meaning the physicians have managed to normalize the laboratory test values but failed to help the patient). 1998 C.J. Peters Virus Hunter (Apr. 13), p. 284 ! When I was an intern, we used to refer to this as a “Harvard Death”: you kept pumping meds until all the cultures were negative and test results were normal but the patient still succumbed. 2005

Perri Klass N.Y. Times (Apr. 5) “In a Pile of Papers, the Ghost of a Once-Healthy Child” (Int.) ! I thought about that bitter medical student joke, the “Harvard death,” in which all the lab results are perfect, all the electrolytes and body chemistry numbers “in the boxes”—as the patient dies.

hawasim n. a looter or thief. Arabic. Crime & Prisons. Iraq. Slang.

2003 [A.Y.S.] Iraq at a Glance (Baghdad, Iraq) (Nov. 1) “Freedom Is a Responsibility” (Int.) ! I said, “Do you have a car?!” He said, “Yes, doctor,” at once I concluded that he was a thief (in slang known as Hawasim, a name derived from Saddam’s description of the coming war at that time as Al-hawasim, which means The Decisive War, after the end of the war, everyone seen in the loot and robbery is called ‘Hawasim’!!). 2004 Mushriq Abbas, Nasir al-Ali Al-Nahdah (Iraq) (Mar. 15), p. 1 in BBC Monitoring Middle East (Mar. 19, 2004) “Iraqi Report on Smuggling of Saddam Era Tanks, Heavy Arms to Iran”

! According to residents of the area, hundreds of tanks have been purchased from civilians, Al-Hawasim gangs [a term used by Iraqis to refer to the thieves well-nourished during and after the last war, which was named Al-Hawasim by the former regime], or the foreign forces. [2004 Patrick Graham @ Iraq Harper’s (June 1) “Beyond Fallujah,” vol. 308, no. 1849, p. 37 ! Saddam had called this war the Harb Al Hawasim, the Final War, and Iraqis immediately renamed looted goods in Iraq Hawasim.] 2004 Peter Y. Hong @ Baghdad, Iraq L.A. Times (July 19) “Baghdad Real Estate Sizzles Amid Chaos,” p. A1

! Some of his customers, he said, are hawasim, looters who took part in the rampant plundering of government buildings, banks, Iraqi army bases and businesses after the war.

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heartsink n. a feeling of dismay or disappointment; in medical use, heartsink patient, a patient that is difficult or impossible to help.

Medical.

1937 Jimmy Fiddler Washington Post (Mar. 10) “In Hollywood,” p. 13

! Imagine the heart-sink that comes to an adult star when he receives the script and finds himself teamed for scene after scene with Deanna Durgin or Freddie Bartholomew. 1974 Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell (May 31), p. 58 in (Jan. 1, 1995) ! The less immense, more finite items, of a size allowing the mind to get a handhold, like nations, or space technology, or New York, are hard to think about without drifting toward heartsink. 1989 Marilyn Dunlop Toronto Star (Dec. 30) “‘Heartsink’ Patients Overwhelm Doctors,” p. F2 ! Heartsink patients may fit into four categories, the editorial says. Dependent clingers, entitled demanders, manipulative help-rejecters and self-destructive deniers. They can overwhelm and exasperate their doctors by their behavior. 1992 Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian (May 5), p. 98

! The woman looked up. Neither courage nor heartsink in those old eyes. 1995 Jenny Tabakoff Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (Sept. 18) “Beware of Heartsinkers, Even If They Do Have One Useful Function,” p. 13 ! There are any number of heartsink words and phrases in the English language, and they are proliferating. Words such as “forum,” “convention” and “summit” send a signal to most people’s brains: Turn off now. 2000 Seau-Tak Cheung @ Dundee, Australia sBMJ (London, Eng.) (Apr.) “Maybe There Are Also Heartsink Doctors” (Int.) ! There is no doubt that heartsink patients are a great source of stress for their doctors, but at the same there must exist “heartsink doctors”—doctors that patients dread seeing, not because of what

they may tell them, but because of the doctor’s personal characteristics. 2001 Nick Hornby How to Be Good (Aug. 1), p. 128 ! The

patients that dismay me the most are the ones I see a lot whom I can’t help. We call them heartsink patients, for obvious reasons, and someone once reckoned that most partners in practice have about fifty heartsinks on their books. 2002 Robert Ashton This Is Heroin

(Oct. 1), p. 105 ! I knew then, with total heartsink, that he was on heroin, because that’s what heroin addicts have to do—steal from anyone or anywhere for cash to buy their stuff.

heater n. a crime or criminal case that attracts a lot of (media) attention. Crime & Prisons. Media. Police.

1986 Tom Fitzpatrick Chicago Sun-Times (July 24) “Echeles Is Up to Elbows in Case of Fugitive Killer,” p. 7 ! “The thing that I’m concerned about,” Echeles said, “is that this was the first ‘heater’ case for Judge Themis Karnezis....” “What do you mean by a ‘heater’ case?” I asked. Echeles sighed at my lack of knowledge. “A heater case is one

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that brings a lot of press coverage, like the Marquette 10 or any Greylord case.” 1987 Mary Durusau Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate Mag.

(La.) (Jan. 18) “Unholy Matrimony,” p. 4 ! In 1974, John Dillmann was a 27-year-old detective on the New Orleans Police Department’s homicide unit and hungry for his first “heater” case—a big publicity case that would earn him status on the force. He didn’t know how soon that case would come. 1993 Anne Keegan Chicago Tribune (Dec. 22) “Chicago Speak,” p. 1 ! Heater case: A crime that’s getting a lot of publicity. It means the pressure is on to solve it immediately, a k a “front burner.” 1996 James Varney Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.) (Jan. 27) “Teen Guilty of Murder Outside Quarter Lounge,” p. A1 !

Hill pointed out police had called Superintendent Richard Pennington within a half-hour of the shooting, calling it evidence that “this case was a heater from the beginning.” 2005 David Heinzmann, Jeff Coen

Chicago Tribune (Jan. 4) “Rapes in Poor Areas Rarely Get Spotlight” (Int.) ! Bernie Murray, head of the Felony Trial Division in the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, said that though the office handles more sexual assaults in economically depressed areas of the city, he understands when some cases become “heaters.” “In deference to (the media), if there’s a neighborhood where there is not a lot of crime, and then you have a situation where there’s a serial rapist in the area, that’s news,” Murray said.

heatiness n. a characteristic of certain foods or stimulants said to cause emotional or physical reactions associated with temper, fever, passion, excess, or true heat. China. Food & Drink. Health. Hong Kong. Malaysia. Singapore. From Chinese culture and medicine.

1993 Teh Hooi Ling Business Times Singapore (May 26) “Herbal Jelly Maker Goes Global with Help from Sisir” ! The company was started two years ago to produce the jelly—which many Chinese believe can relieve “heatiness”—from about 20 types of herbs. 1994 James Chadwick South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Aug. 2) “Understanding the Key to Tapping the Mainland,” p. 3 ! The heart of the matter is the intricate philosophy of “heatiness and cooliness”—a traditional Chinese belief in the balance between hot and cold air within the body. “To understand the market, you must understand the myths. Cognac is perceived as being ‘heaty’—it encourages sexual activity. Whisky and menthol cigarettes are ‘cooling,’ ” Ms. So said. “The marketing strategists have to understand these things—they have to overcome deep-rooted perceptions.” 1996 Kieran Cooke Financial Times (U.K.) (Feb. 17) “Dispatches: Irish Year of the Rat” ! The other ailment Doris waxes lyrical about is a peculiar affliction called heatiness. This, according to Chinese culinary traditionalists, is caused by eating the

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wrong combinations of foods or downing too much strong alcohol, thus provoking a fire inside. 2001 Usenet: soc.culture.thai (Oct. 21) “Re: What Does ‘Ron Nai’ Translate to” ! Ron-Nai is what the Chinese call “re-qi” which is roughly translated as “heatiness” which is a term widely used by Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese.... Food that is typically known as “heaty” will include fried food, food high in fat content and certain fruits such as Jack-fruit. Heatiness will cover a whole spectrum of symptoms from indigestion, mouth ulcers and feeling febrile. It may also cause halithosis. The opposite spectrum is “cooling” food which includes fruits such as watermelon and a variety of herbs to counter heatiness such as Chrysantemum tea, etc. Too much cooling food may cause cough and abdominal pain. 2004 Teo Pau Lin Straits Times (Singapore) (June 13) “Prickly Heat” (Int.) ! Eating mangosteens can counter the “heatiness” of durians. Fact: Once again, Dr. Zainal said there is no scientific evidence to support this.

hecka adv. very; hella. Slang. [A milder form of hella.] This term, like hella, probably comes from California.

[1985 Tony Cooper L.A. Times (Feb. 28) “2-A Boys Defense Does It for Oceanside,” p. 15 ! “We had a hecka season,” Seaman said. “No Mission Bay team has ever been to the CIF finals. Our kids don’t have anything to be ashamed of.”] 1992 Shann Nix San Francisco Chronicle

(Nov. 17) “How to Talk Like a Kid,” p. A9 ! For an all-purpose superlative, use “hella” as in “He’s hella fine,” (he’s good-looking) or “that test was hella-hard.” For prudes or freshman girls, “hella” may be replaced by “hecka.” 1992 Usenet: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Nov. 22) “Re: Here Are the Undeniable Truths of Life” ! Gee, was this more of your hecka-subtle irony? Whoosh, it went right over my head. 1995

Peggy Orenstein Schoolgirls (Sept. 5), p. 201 ! She told me shyly that she dreamed of becoming a lawyer. “It would be hecka fresh,” she

said at the time, “because you get to defend people who are really innocent and help them.” *2004 Crispin Boyer, Dan Hsu, Parker Ames

1Up.com (Dec.) “Child’s Play II” (Int.) ! These controls are hecka hard.

helitack n. firefighting that uses helicopters (to deploy firefighters, gear, water, etc.). Also adj. Firefighting. Jargon. [helicopter + attack]

1956 L.A. Times (Calif.) (June 10) “Fire-Fighting Copter Tests Start in Forest” (in San Bernardino), p. A23 ! First of a series of tests—tabbed the Helitack Program—on the use of helicopters in firefighting will start next week in the San Bernardino National Forest. 1979 Victor Malarek @ Dryden Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (July 24) “Fighting Modern-Day Forest Fires Like a ‘War Without the Casualties,’ ” p. P9

! The helitack was advised by the regional control centre about the

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fire being bombed by the Canso. The initial attack crew squeezed into the helicopter and were off within three minutes. 2004 Gregory Alan Gross San Diego Union-Tribune (Calif.) (Nov. 16) “Elite, Mobile Fire Crew Might Soon Be Permanent Here” (Int.) ! They are the fire service’s shock troops, and they soon might be a year-round fixture in San Diego County. Officially, they are known simply as “helitack.”

heresthetics n. the framing of a debate or issue so that one is on the superior or winning side, or so that one’s choices are bet- ter-received by others. Also heresthetic. Politics. [The term was coined by William Riker (1920-1993).]

1984 William H. Riker American Political Science Review (Mar.) “The Heresthetics of Constitution-Making: The Presidency in 1787, with Comments on Determinism and Rational Choice,” vol. 78, no. 1, p. 8 (Int.) ! In this connection the distinction between rhetoric and heresthetic is that rhetoric involves converting others by persuasive argument, whereas heresthetic involves structuring the situation so that others accept it willingly. 1990 Bernard M. Bass Bass and Stogdill’s Handbook of Leadership (July 1), 3rd ed., p. 137 ! Heresthetics. For Riker (1986), leadership, as practiced by successful politicians, is primarily political manipulation. According to this view, leadership is evident when a politician is able to change an issue in the minds of constituents and legislators, so the minority support for older framing of the issue swells to a majority because of the politician’s new interpretation of the issue. 1992 John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby Leadership for the Common Good (Nov. 4), p. 259 ! Even if problems, solutions, and politics are coupled, it is still possible to lose during formal adoption sessions to shrewd opponents who find ways to split the coalition or to use the formal decision-making rules of the relevant arena to defeat what otherwise would be a “sure” winner. This is where a knowledge of “heresthetics”—the name Riker (1996) gives to “the art of political manipulation”—is essential. 1996 Usenet: talk.politics.guns (Oct. 29) “Re: John Johnson Calls NRA a Liar”

! “Either way I win.” “Gee, what a virtuoso grasp of heresthetics!!!”

1998 Boston Globe (July 17) “Leadership Seminar Set at Dartmouth,” p. 12 ! “Heresthetics and Rhetoric and the Spatial Model,” by William Riker, Rochester University political science professor. 2004

Andrew R. Cline Rhetorica (May 14) “Campaign Maneuvers...” (Int.)

! John Kerry’s suggestion that he might delay acceptance of his nomination and the Republican response to that suggestion, are excellent examples of heresthetics—structuring the world so you can win.

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hikikomori n. a state of social withdrawal or willful anomie. Japan. Japanese.

2000 Ryu Murakami Time International (Asia) (May 1) “Japan’s Lost Generation,” vol. 155, no. 17, p. 49 ! Hikikomori has become a major issue in Japan. Loosely translated as “social withdrawal,” hikikomori refers to the state of anomie into which an increasing number of young Japanese seem to fall these days. Socially withdrawn kids typically lock themselves in their bedrooms and refuse to have any contact with the outside world. They live in reverse: they sleep all day, wake up in the evening and stay up all night watching television or playing video games. Some own computers or mobile phones, but most have few or no friends. Their funk can last for months, even years in extreme cases. 2000 Mark Goldsmith Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (May 13) “Locked Inside: Cases of Hikikomori, or Social Withdrawal, on the Rise,” p. 7 ! Hikikomori is not a disease. For reasons ranging from bullying to exam failure, some young people are shutting themselves away in their rooms and having as little direct contact with the outside world as possible. Many are suicidal but lack the will to make good their morbid fantasies. It is not clear at what point someone crosses the line into hikikomori. But after a month of seclusion it would not be too soon to seek treatment, psychiatrists say. Machizawa knows one person who shunned professional help for 20 years. 2004

Paul Wiseman USA Today (June 2) “No Sex Please—We’re Japanese” (Int.) ! In fact, as many as a million young men—mostly teenagers, but increasingly older men as well—suffer from what is known here as hikikomori. It’s a condition in which they seclude themselves in their rooms for weeks at a time (though the causes seem to go well beyond fear of women to traumatic experiences from the past, such as being bullied at school).

hillbilly armor n. scavenged materials used by soldiers for improvised bulletproofing and vehicle hardening, esp. in Iraq. Iraq. Military. United States.

2004 Deena Winter Bismarck Tribune (N.Dak.) (Aug. 30) “Chaplain Brings Message Back Home to Congregation,” p. 1A ! Millican only briefly spoke of the “horrible sand,” unrelenting heat, “hillbilly armor” they initially wore and camel spiders as big as a Frisbee. 2004

Stephanie Heinatz @ Camp Arifjan, Kuwait Daily Press (Hampton Roads, Va.) (Sept. 11) “Truck Drivers Recount the Road to Baghdad,” p. A4 ! “We call it ‘hillbilly armor’ because all we did was cut out thick steel and put it on our doors,” Jackson said. “We have a really good welder who worked really hard on that to give us the extra pro-

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tection.” 2004 Thom Shanker, Eric Schmitt N.Y. Times (Dec. 10) “Armor Scarce for Big Trucks Transporting Cargo in Iraq” (Int.) ! Continuing shortages have prompted soldiers going to Iraq to scrounge for steel and ballistic glass, improvising shields that have come to be called hillbilly armor. 2005 David Shrauger Living Iraq Journal

(Jan. 16) “Victory Is Mine” (Int.) ! We were able to install ballistic windows (that we will have to take off and put on another truck when it is their turn to convoy) and put these strange flexible kevlar sleeves over our plastic doors to go along with the particle board “hillbilly” armor built around the back of our gun truck.

hiplife n. a musical genre from Ghana that combines elements of American-style hip-hop and the Ghanaian pop genre known as highlife. Entertainment. Ghana. Hip-Hop. Music.

1999 Elena Oumano Billboard (Mar. 6) “Fusion-Based Hiplife Genre Invigorates Ghana” ! In hiplife, hip-hop beats fuse with raps in any of Ghana’s many languages or English-language raps ride beats that incorporate elements of highlife, Ghana’s indigenous pop style. 1999

Joyce Mensah @ Accra Ghanaian Chronicle (Oct. 22) “Hip-Life Music Awards” ! Hip-life music has been the main dominant rhythm in our music industry; hardly a day passes by without radio stations blaring them on air. This is because the “westernised” youth who form the majority of our population are madly in love with it since it presents them freestyle and a break. This has indirectly led to the proliferation of hip-life music youth groups like Buk-Bak, Nananom, VIP, Sas Squard, and individuals, such as Reggie Rockstone, Nana King, ExDoe, are “idolised’ by the youth. 2004 Omar Dubois Ghana Music.com (July 26) “Hiplife: A New Dawn; A New Day” (Int.) ! Hiplife was almost solely the brainchild of Reginald “Reggie Rockstone” Osei. Memory lane: Whilst we were both in Accra from London on Christmas holidays in 1994, I vividly recollect meeting Reggie at a friend’s place and hearing him rap in Twi. I was quite taken aback, for I’d never heard it done before—and it was effortlessly good. “I’m not new to this rap thing,” hiplife’s founding father—who also coined the genre’s name—tells me almost nine years later.

hit the deuces v. phr. in a penitentiary or prison, to summon help. Crime & Prisons. [This appears to derive from the radio code “222” used by prison guards to call for assistance. The term may be specific to Federal prisons.]

*1999 Tom Manning Tom Manning—Poetry—Big House (Leavenworth, Kan.) (Aug. 30) “Another Day in the Big House” (Int.) ! Jarred awake—screws screaming/Hit the deuces (222) back to your cells/Lock-in, fist fight/Shattered teeth—splattered blood. 2002

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[Fee-X] @ Texas Prison Talk Online (June 11) “Dirty Little Drinker” (Int.)

! The other CO up in the unit hit the deuces when he flew off the ladder, just because it scared her so bad. 2003 [Spikeman] @ DallasFort Worth, Texas Prison Talk Online (Apr. 23) “Is Everything CopEsthetic?” (Int.) ! Pretty soon Pavlov is running for his life being chased by a drag queen inmate with a midget broom. Did I mention that Sheila was wearing panties and a homemade bra? The entire unit watched in awe as this went on for 15 minutes or so. It took poor Pavlov that long to remember to hit the deuces and summon help.

2004 Seth M. Ferranti @ Glenville, W. Va. HoopsHype (Nov. 27) “No Love for Ron” (Int.) ! Man, I seen the guard looking all scared and shit.... Ready to hit the deuces. He didn’t know what the fuck was going on. 2005 John Bowers Salt Lake City Weekly (Utah) (Apr. 28) “Cell Survivor” (Int.) ! An officer “hits the deuces”—a button on his hand-held radio—which summons a hundred guards like ants to a picnic.

HNWI n. high net worth individual. Acronym. Jargon. Money & Finance. United States.

1989 Robert Gottliebsen Business Review Week (Jan. 27) “Equicorpse,” p. 22 ! With that equity base and his own maverick image, Hawkins began lending to develop the Equiticorp finance company—just as he had done with CBA Finance. However, instead of rural loans Hawkins chased HNWI’s—high-net-worth individuals.

2003 Sam Ali Seattle Times (Aug. 10) “The Wealthy Way to Investing in Volatile Times,” p. E1 (Int.) ! Indeed, the ranks of the world’s HNWIs—financial parlance for “high-net-worth individuals,” with investable assets of $1 million or more—increased in 2002 by 2.1 percent to 7.3 million, according to the World Wealth Report.

hocker n. a person who harangues, beseeches, or talks persuasively; a person who trades in information, gossip, or personal connections; someone who is (obnoxiously) ambitious. Derogatory. Yiddish. [< hock ‘to nag, criticize’ (According to Leo Rosten, perhaps shortened from Hok mir nit kayn chainik ‘don’t knock me a teapot’ = ‘don’t harangue me; stop nagging, annoying, or pestering me’) < Yiddish hock, hok, or hakn ‘to chop, strike, knock’ < German hack ‘to cut, chop, or strike (with a blow)’; High German hock ‘to hit, chop.’] Hocker is common and well-known to yeshiva students in New York City. Related etymologically to, but not derived from, hawk ‘to embarrass, annoy, or disconcert,’ which, according to the Dictionary of American Regional English

(DARE), is used in Mid-Atlantic states such as North Carolina and Virginia as a synonym for hack, more commonly found in the

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American South and South Midlands. The noun variant of hack means “a state of embarrassment, confusion, or defeat.” The adjective hacked means “embarrassed, annoyed, cowed, flustered” and dates as far back as 1892. It’s also, therefore, related to to hack off ‘to annoy.’ A Jewish correspondent from Boston also reports using huck to mean “to nag,” probably just a pronunciation and spelling variant of the Yiddish hock.

1996 Nancy K. Miller Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent’s Death (Oct. 1), p. 32 (Mar. 1, 2000) ! The father’s self-representation as Hocker confirms the son’s characterization of him, in which an authorial Roth reaches for a recognizable, if not entirely appealing, type glossed for the goyim. The writer supplies the dictionary entry in parenthesis: “Hock: a Yiddishism that in this context means to badger, to bludgeon, to hammer with warnings and edicts and pleas—in short, to drill a hole in somebody’s head with words.” 1999 Howard Pollack Aaron Copland (Mar. 1), p. 377 in (Apr. 1, 2000) ! Morros and Finston, he afterward wrote Copland, were “political hockers—and the atmosphere they gave off is not fragrant. (But I’m afraid that is 95% of Hollywood.)” 2000 Usenet: alt.humor.jewish (May 11) “Boro Park Millionaire” ! We only have 5 contestants because the other 5 got stuck in Boro Park traffic behind some hocker who triple-parked his Lexus on 13th Avenue. 2003 [Yuda] Welcome to the yudaSphere (N.Y.) (June 3) “Finalizing...“ (Int.) ! At Binyomin’s, when Senior came over to visit, he said in response to my schmoozing, “My, my, you are such a hocker!” So I flashed a smile at him and said, “How true! I have a question, though. What is a hocker?” With some deliberation, he answered me, “A hocker is...the same as a tutzuch.” 2003 Rachel Horn

Yeshiva University Observer (NYC) (Nov. 4) “From the Editors Desk” (Int.) ! “Hocker” has since seeped into our lingo. The catch phrase has come to connote the student in the know, who rubs elbows with the higher-ups at Yeshiva, often organizing Yeshiva events and programs. The proverbial hocker at Yeshiva seems to know and be known by virtually every student. This personality type is often innocuous. Students immersed in “the hock” must be constantly aware of the fine line that distinguishes the cream of the crop from the social elite. 2004 [Nicht] The House of Hock (June 2) “Rabbis & Journalists II” (Int.) ! Some reporters are hockers, which may be true. However, once they begin publishing what they hock, Rabbis may be reticent to speak to them.... Of course, there are Hockers which have poor information & hockers with better information.... 2004 Steven I. Weiss Fiddish (NYC) (June 3) (Int.) ! Sem wonders if skeptical rabbis mean that the press can’t do its job, and that therefore “hockers” are the best sources of information for what the rabbis think.... When it

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comes to the “hock” associated with those rabbis, a journalist who has a similar relationship is just as valuable as the hocker, perhaps even better in some cases I’ve been involved with, because the rabbi knows that the journalist isn’t just looking for the latest lashon hara.

hog-dogging n. 1. a (blood) sport in which trained dogs corner (wild) pigs; 2. showing off; hot-dogging. Animals. Sports. United States. [The two 1995 citations (from the same journalist) and the second 1999 citation probably illustrate a form of hot-dog ‘to show off; to make ostentatious displays of behavior’ and have no relation to the sport hog-dogging.] Though both are often called hog-dogging, some participants make a distinction between hogbaying, in which the dogs are only permitted to howl, bark, and bay to keep the hogs in check, and hog-dogging, in which the dogs are permitted to fight and bite the hogs. The former activity is usually part of a hog dog rodeo and the latter is not.

1994 Ron Wiggins Palm Beach Post (Fla.) (May 19) “Hog Hunting Rodeos Are for the Dogs,” p. 1D ! Now I have, second hand, a story on people who sic dogs on captured wild hogs, chasing them around a pasture and biting them into submission. This is no joke. Hog dogging rodeos are for real and they’re happening throughout rural Florida. 1995 Bill Connors Tulsa World (Okla.) (Mar. 2) “Bud’s Favorites at Moment of Truth,” p. S1 ! Richardson’s previous group of outstanding players who inspired this hostility might have responded more to Richardson’s liking than his current players. Oliver Miller and Todd Day, with blatant taunting and hog-dogging, made it easy for opposing fans to dislike Arkansas. They reveled and played lights out when confronted with such hostility. 1995 Bill Connors Tulsa World

(Okla.) (July 25) “Skill, Passion Make Irvin Leader at Dallas,” p. S1

! Michael Irvin was being Michael Irvin. That is, hog-dogging, charming, leading. 1999 John W. Gonzalez Houston Chronicle (Tex.) (May 11) “Time Runs Out for Hundreds of Bills Left Pending in House Committees,” p. 1 ! Among the dead and dying ideas are a lower sales tax rate, approval for state-run casinos, a ban of hog-dogging and the option for juries to sentence a murderer to life without parole. [1999

Usenet: alt.sports.football.pro.sf-49ers (Nov. 28) “Re: Team of the Nineties” ! Big eared, hog-dogging, high-stepping, arrogant, overrated cornerbacks need not apply.] 2000 Robert Anderson Ice Age

(Oct. 20), p. 90 ! He was the only one who ever spoke to her—the others hovered with crossed arms and chain gold hogdogging the available light. 2004 Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post (Mar. 29) “A Squealing Time Hog-Dogging at Uncle Earl’s; At La. Event and Others Across South, It’s Hounds Against Boars,” p. A3 ! A hog-dogging

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