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sirens, a combination public address and siren system with a 1.5-mile range. 2002 (Department of Defense) (U.S.) (Dec. 18) “UFC 4-021-01: Design and O&M: Mass Notification Systems” (Int.) ! Giant Voice System. This system is also known as Big Voice. The Giant Voice system is typically installed as a base-wide system to provide a siren signal and pre-recorded and live voice messages. It is most useful for providing mass notification for personnel in outdoor areas, expeditionary structures, and temporary buildings. 2003 Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes @ Camp Commando, Kuwait U.S. News & World Report (Mar. 20) “Saddam’s First Shot: Rattling the Marines” ! As they filed out of the bunker after the first attack, marines pulled off their gas masks and steadied their nerves with their first few breaths of fresh air. As one marine put it: “You know, I’m pretty p—ed at that Big Voice right now.” 2004 Chris Schnaubelt (National Guard Association of California) (Jan. 28) “NGAC 1st VP’s Update: More News from Baghdad” (Int.) ! When there is an attack, a siren goes off that sounds like the air raid sirens in the movies. Then, there a speaker system we call “Big Voice” that directs everyone to “take cover.” 2004 Joseph L. Galloway Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.) (Oct. 5) “A Doctor’s List of Memories of Iraq, Good and Bad” ! The siren and the inevitable “big voice” yelling at us to take cover. 2005 Oneguy MREater (Iraq) (Mar. 8) “Rocketman” (Int.) ! I didn’t hear an explosion, so I started the engine and prepared to move out. Just then I heard Big Voice announcing “Alarm...Red...”...I shut off the engine and sat there a bit, figuring I was as safe in an up-armored hummer as in a bunker. After a while Big Voice announced “Alarm...Black...,” so we could move around guilt free.

biking n. an (all-you-can-eat) food buffet or smorgasbord. < English. Food & Drink. Japan. Japanese. [From English Viking, referring to the Scandinavian origins of the Swedish smörgåsbord.] Rendered in Japanese as and usu. Romanized as baikingu.

*2003 Bill Edwards A Visit with Bill “Fireflies and Such II” (Int.)

! “Whah? The dinner was biking?” We were obviously confused. “Yes, biking style.” And it is here that we must explain, dear reader, one of the many things which makes communication with the Japanese difficult. Much like the constant confusion between “l” and “r,” there is often no difference between “v” and “b” to the Japanese. So we slowly came to realize that a buffet dinner is considered to be a meal eaten “viking” style. 2004 Seth Rosenblatt Big in Japan (Japan) (Apr. 10) “The Truth About ‘Biking’ ” (Int.) ! “Biking” is one of many Japanese words that they’ve taken from English. It means “all-you-can-eat,” pretty much the same as “tabehodai,” the proper Japanese words for such culinary indulgence. *2004 Alan R. Miller Loan Words (Int.)

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! Examples are which sounds like biking. However it is from the word Viking and means smorgasbord.

birth control glasses n.pl. military-issue eyeglasses; (hence) ugly eyewear. Also BCGs. Military. Slang.

1991 Frank Bruni Houston Chronicle (Tex.) (Feb. 24) “Dynamic Duo in Combat Zone/Identical Twin Brothers Share Bond and Serve Together,” p. 24 ! Right now they’re both wearing Army-issue brown heavy plastic frames, which the soldiers call BCGs, birth control glasses, because they’re so ugly no woman would want to make a baby with a soldier wearing a pair. 1992 Usenet: soc.veterans (Sept. 20) “NamVet Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2 (2/6)”: “VOL. 5, NO. 2” ! “Birth Control Glasses,” a term used to describe the ugly military-issued eyeglasses.

1993 Poppy Brite Drawing Blood (Oct. 1), p. 151 ! A skinny, grinning kid with badly cut dark hair and birth-control glasses and ears that stuck out goofily. Looked like a hundred computer geeks Zach had known. 2005 Pam Mellskog @ Firestone Daily Times-Call (Longmont, Colo.) (Mar. 24) “Doctor, Soldier” (Int.) ! He also wore thickframed, Army-issue glasses, an object that earned an unofficial acronym, BCGs—“birth control glasses”—for being remarkably unattractive.

blaccent n. a mode of speech that is said to imitate AfricanAmerican vernacular English, especially when used by a white person. Also blackcent. Derogatory. [black + accent] This term is usually derogatory.

2001 Usenet: alt.tasteless.jokes (Dec. 21) “Re: 10 Things a NIGGER Would Never Say” ! I like ur “blaCkcent”...*sniCker*. 2002 Usenet: alt.fan.conan-obrien (Sept. 7) “List for September 3-6 / 02”

Garofalo, after ranting about folks like Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera copying the “blaccent,” “I mean, did you guys come up the hard way through the Mickey Mouse club?” 2002 Desson Howe Washington Post (Nov. 8) “Eminem Wins by a ‘Mile,’ ” p. T37

! To some, he’s the anti-Vanilla Ice, white with a blackcent. 2004

[Stumps McGurk (whiskeyblood)] Tons of T&A (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (Feb. 3) “Pant Pant Pant Pant” (Int.) ! I’m slowly being adopted at the new favorite employee of the crazy black girl in my department. I’ve been there two days. I think it’s because I told her that her weave must be in too tight if she thought I was ready to start taking calls. Ooops. Sometimes the blaccent just blasts out and there’s nothing for it.

2005 Des Life in text Format (Detroit, Mich.) (Mar. 7) “Things I Hate About Work” (Int.) ! Even if some of the whites put on a phony “blaccent” and try to be down so to speak. Just cause you pushing a couple biracial babies, got a few black friends—one of whom might be with

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you, like to fuck black dudes, listen to rap, etc., don’t mean we’ll automatically connect, remember that!

BlackBerr y prayer n. the posture taken by users of the Black- Berry-brand personal digital assistant manufactured by RIM.

Technology.

2000 Steven Chase Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (Dec. 14) “BlackBerry Season RIM’s Wireless E-mail Device Generates Its Own Vocabulary as Road Warriors Get Hooked on Its Addictive Simplicity,” p. T1

! The device has also generated an odd new social ritual that sees BlackBerry users discreetly operate their devices at meetings behind cupped hands with heads intently bowed toward its tiny screen. The position makes one look as if they are seeking help from a higher power—giving rise to the expression “BlackBerry prayer.” [2002

Joan O’C. Hamilton BusinessWeek Asia (Feb. 18) “Hooked on BlackBerry” (Int.) ! I’m told many users now call the increasingly familiar BlackBerry posture of head down, hands in the lap under the conference table, the “BlackBerry prayer.” 2002 Erika Engle Honolulu StarBulletin (Hawaii) (Mar. 10) “Wireless World at Their Fingertips” (Int.)

! More common to daily life, users are seen engaged in “PDA prayer,” which Ogasawara describes as occurring regularly at boring meetings. The device is held low, just below desk level with the user looking down, presumably at folded hands.] 2005 Renee Montagne (NPR) (Jan. 12) “Morning Edition: Increasing Use of BlackBerrys and Similar Devices in the Workplace” ! Heavy BlackBerry users call themselves CrackBerry addicts, referring to the highly addictive form of cocaine. Bow your head to check the device for e-mail during a meeting? That’s a BlackBerry prayer.

bleeding deacon n. a person who believes himself indispensable to a group, especially a person who becomes so overinvolved in a group’s internal management, policies, or politics as to lose sight of its larger goals; (hence) a person with a negative, moralizing character, who acts like the sole source of wisdom. Slang. United States. Most cites are connected to Alcoholics Anonymous or to similar 12-step programs. The historical information in the 1998 and 1999 cites is not verified.

1988 N.Y. Times (Feb. 21) “The Changing World of Alcoholics Anonymous,” p. 6-40 ! “If anything is going to destroy A.A.,” says Dr. John Norris, a nonalcoholic physician, friend of Bill Wilson’s and for many years chairman of A.A.’s board of trustees, “it will be what I call the ‘tradition lawyers.’ They find it easier to live with black and white than they do with gray. These ‘bleeding deacons’—these fundamen- talists—are afraid of and fight any change.” 1990 Vernon E. Johnson

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I’ll Quit Tomorrow: A Practical Guide to Alcoholism Treatment, p. 92

! Even in aftercare or AA, if this quality of rigidity continues, it can reach a point where patients are no longer viewed by their peers in recovery as a zealot for the program but as “bleeding deacons” who insist loudly that “my way is the only way to make the program.”

1997 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Feb. 20) “Gambling’s Not the Answer,” p. A14 ! Our town is going nuts with gambling. I don’t have a conversation with my friends when we’re not talking about off-track betting, the Meadows, the Lotto or poker machines. I am not a Bible-thumper or bleeding deacon, but I’m really ticked off! 1998 alt.recovery.catholicism (Oct. 4) “Re: Former RC/Padre_Andre vs. ‘John M’ ” ! The term Bleeding Deacon is a corruption of an old New England term from the 18th or 19th century. The original term was Bleating Deacon, evoking a farmer’s image of an old goat in the pulpit. 1999 alt.recovery.aa (Dec. 9) “Re: In and Out—Is AA for Me?”

! When the term was first applied it was intended for those people who have a set of cries such as “it will never work” or “if it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it.” The actual term used was “bleating beacon” [sic] (as in sheep). The GV even ran a series titled “The Bleating Dea-

con’s Corner.” I prefer the term “bleeding deacon.” Truth is that I used to be one but I ran out of blood. *2004 Gregg Easterbrook

Beliefnet “A.A.: America’s Stealth Religion” (Int.) ! There is also no professional clergy, but true-believing Program old-timers are often referred to, more or less affectionately, as “bleeding deacons.”

blocktimer n. an independent journalist or producer who buys airtime in order to broadcast programs on radio or television. Media. Philippines. Television.

1985 David Briscoe (AP) (Aug. 4) “More Than Dozen Journalists Killed

in Philippines in Year” ! Abangan is a “blocktimer,” radio announcers who pay for their own time on the air and sell advertising time. 1996

Anna Leah Sarabia @ Philippines Contemporary Women’s Issues (68) “Women’s Experiences in Media” ! Those independent producers who are now thriving are directly the same people who already had control of media outlets under the Marcos government, or are allied by kinship or partnership to network owners, advertising agencies, government agencies or powerful religious organizations. Even available airtime is controlled by a kind of “blocktimers mafia.” 2003 Mars W. Mosqueda Jr. Manila Bulletin (Philippines) (June 14) “Task Force Formed to Probe Shooting of Cebu Broadcaster” ! Greg Sanchez pledged assistance to Cortes, even as he clarified the broadcaster is not a regular employe[e] of the station but a blocktimer, who buys airtime. 2004 Nonie C. Dolor Manila Times (Philippines) (Aug. 21) “Why They Kill Local Journalists” (Int.) ! Most of these hard-hitting

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journalists—print or broadcast—are independent, free-lancers, or in our broadcast parlance, “blocktimers.”

blow-in n. an outsider; a carpetbagger. Politics.

1995 Yvonne Preston The Age (Australia) (May 11) “Medical Mystery” ! On Saturday, Bradfield’s 190 pre-selectors will declare the result of this young bull/old bull stoush between the 36-year-old blow-in from Hobart, and the white-haired David Connolly, who is nearing the end of his political career after 21 years on a margin which rarely slipped below 23 per cent. 1998 Alan Ramsey Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (Oct. 31) “Poll Proves High Profiles Count”

! The Government hypes the professed wisdom that Kernot was a high-profile “blow-in” who almost failed because the voters of Dickson, in Brisbane’s southern suburbs, wouldn’t accept a political carpetbagger. 1999 Joe Carroll Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland) (July 10) “Hillary Attracts Media Circus on Her Upstate ‘Listening Tour,’ Leaving Bill Down on an Indian Reservation” ! Rudy Giuliani has been plugging away at the carpetbagger charge and plans his own fundraiser in Arkansas to highlight her New York “blow-in” status. 2004 Dale Russakoff @ Boston, Mass. Washington Post (July 25) “Discipline and Ambition Overcame First Defeat” (Int.) ! Kerry swept the district’s upscale suburbs, but not the mill towns, where unemployment was rising as jobs fled. There, locals tagged Kerry with their own slang for carpetbagger: “blow-in.”

blue angel n. an ignited burst of flatus. Slang.

1994 Usenet: alt.folklore.urban (Jan. 18) “Sparks from Lifesavers Candy in Your Mouth (& Exploding Blue Angels)” ! You must all know about blue angels, where you hold a lighter/match very close to your jeans/butt and fart. It makes a blue flame. 1996 Alexandra Paul Winnipeg Free Press (Manitoba, Can.) (Feb. 29) “It’s a Gas, and on the Rise!,” p. A9 ! Then there are the blue angels that were famous in the youth culture of the 1950s and 1960s. Blue angels was a nickname given to bluish flames teenagers created by blowing wind and igniting it with a flame to create special visual effects with flatus. [2003

Robert Buckman Human Wildlife (Feb. 15), p. 115 ! There is a fraternity at a college in the Midwest where the initiation rite is lighting a fart, and the frat members are known colloquially as “The Blue Angels.”]

blue light bandit n. a person with criminal intentions who impersonates a police officer in a patrol car. Crime & Prisons. Police.

1986 Margaret L. Knox @ Savannah Altanta Journal-Constitution (Ga.) (Jan. 24) “Chatham Jury Convicts Alleged ‘Blue Light Bandit,’ ” p. A11

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! After nearly deadlocking Thursday, a Chatham County Superior Court jury returned Friday and delivered a guilty verdict against one of Savannah’s alleged “blue light bandits.” Jimmy Bradford, 20, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on an armed robbery charge stemming from an incident on March 14, 1984, in which robbers used a flashing light and posed as law officers to stop and frisk a motorist. 1991 Herald (Rock Hill, S.C.) (Oct. 11) “Police Have Arrested Two Men They Say Were Selling Crack Cocaine,” p. 8A ! A 53-year-old Monroe High School teacher refused to stop her car Thursday after being followed by a suspect flashing a blue police-style light on his pickup truck. Reports of a blue-light bandit who stopped women using such lights have been filed in Mecklenburg and several surrounding counties in the past year. 2005 Fred Kelly Charlotte Observer (N.C.) (May 29) “Attack by Fake Officer Reported” (Int.)

! Impersonating police officers has become so common that law enforcement officials refer to them as “blue light bandits.”

blue-sky v. to imagine or propose unreasonable or as-yet unfeasible ideas.

1964 Aileen Snoddy Edwardsville Intelligencer (Ill.) (Nov. 16) “Blue Skying for the Future Home,” p. 4 (title). 1975 Jack Anderson, Les Whitten News (Frederick, Md.) (June 11) “The Washington Merry-Go- Round,” p. A4 ! He insisted he was merely “blue skying” the idea. He swore he had never used the report, which he had promoted while at NIAAA, to solicit loans from banks to build a private treatment center. 1982 Richard S. Rosenbloom, Alan M. Kantrow Harvard Business Review (Feb. 1) “Nurturing of Corporate Research,” p. 115 ! They couldn’t understand why we would pour money into such “harebrained blue-skying” instead of giving it to them to design yet another model of their ill-fated line of processors. 1984 Michael Harris Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (Nov. 5) “NDP’s Leader Knows the Score in N.S. Election,” p. P5 ! At a time when North Americans are romancing the political right, however, the woman who once took Tommy Douglas sailing and grew up in a household where M. J. Coldwell was a frequent visitor is not “blue-skying” her party’s chances on election night. 2004 Paul Harris Vive le Canada (Aug. 17) “Healthcare: The Truth About Your Government” (Int.) ! Can’t you just hear some government official blue-skying and saying the system would be so much more affordable if all those pesky old people would just die?

blute n. a newspaper. Media. This is a nice confirmation of a term that has repeatedly been taken (as in the 2002 cite) from David

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Maurer’s The Big Con (1940). One of his original sources for the term is mentioned in the 1982 American Speech cite below.

1937 Individuals; Wayne Walden @ NYC LOTJ (Dec. 6) “Slang of Newspaper and Mail Delivery (Rewrite Canny)” ! Blutes—Papers in general, as “what time does the next blutes come?” 1982 Raven I. McDavid, Jr.

American Speech (Winter) “David Maurer (1905-1981): A Memoir,” vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 278-79 ! What impressed me about the meeting was Dave’s discussion of The Johnson Family Blute, a newspaper even more restricted in its circulation than the White House Press Digest, for there was only one copy of each issue, that intended for Dave. He had met members of the Johnson mob some years earlier, and they had taken such an interest in his work that they developed the habit of communicating with him regularly, to bring him up to date on changes in the lingo.... After a long run the Blute expired when the family broke up during the dispersal of the mobs during World War II. 2002 Duane Swierczynski Complete Idiot’s Guide to Frauds, Scams,

and Cons (Dec. 17) “Con Man Glossary,” p. 241 ! Blute. Fake clippings from a newspaper, used in big con games.

boi n. a feminine male homosexual or a masculine lesbian. Gay. Sexuality.

1997 Usenet: rec.music.industrial (Aug. 14) “Re: Industrial Web Pages! Labels!” ! You want to become a bigamist? And a gay one?! Well, you look feminine enough in that Goth Boi Babe picture. 1999 Deana Finley Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Feb. 17) “Rave Review for Rave Scene,” p. 1G ! A cute raver boi (a male raver, pronounced like “boy”) in a T-shirt that read “I Love Ghetto” carried a bag of Blow Pops (along with one in his mouth) and handed them out. 2003

dra McLean Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Australia) (June 7) “It’s a Boi Thing” ! Some of these women are getting physical. They bind their breasts to erase any hint of a cleavage, others are “packing,” which is boy (oops, boi) poseur talk for stuffing socks, a dildo or whatever down their designer duds to help them pass the he-man test. 2004

GO NYC (NYC) (Feb. 3) “Gloss Celebrates Four Years,” p. 39 ! Girlie girls are dressed to impress and bois, butches, andros, trannies and all the in-betweens flirt, dance and drink until the wee hours. 2004

Rona Marech San Francisco Chronicle (Calif.) (Feb. 8) “Nuances of Gay Identities Reflected in New Language,” p. A1 ! A “boi” describes a boyish gay guy or a biological female with a male presentation....

Justin, who is 19 and didn’t want to use his last name because he’s not out to his family as transgender, calls himself a “boi”—with an “i”— because he feels like a boy—with a “y”—but “I don’t have the boy parts, as much as I wish I did.” 2005 Jennifer Vanasco Southern Voice

(Atlanta, Ga.) (May 27) “The Death of Femme” (Int.) ! Young women

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who once called themselves butch now call themselves tranny bois, and these tranny bois are mostly dating each other.

bomber n. an old, dilapidated automobile; (hence) a class of such automobiles used with few or no modifications in stock car racing. Automotive. Sports. [This is directly related to the term bomb ‘an old, dilapidated car,’ which goes back to at least the 1950s. There is also a now out-of-fashion sense of bomb ‘a hot-rod or fast car.’]

1981 Jonathan Mann Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (Aug. 14) “Follow the Leader Tactics Change in 6-Hour Event,” p. P49 ! The limited sportsman division, with cars of up to 255 cubic inches, the minimodified division, with cars up to 2,200 cubic centimetres, and the bomber division, with six-cylinder street-stock cars, will round out the card. 1994 James Dempsey Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass.) (May 4) “Hot Rod Is Epitome of Cool,” p. B1 ! It’s not that the Old Bomber is on its last legs, you understand. Everything still works fine. Properly nurtured, this ’85 Chevy could probably go another hundred thou before giving up the ghost. But the old dear wouldn’t win any beauty contests. 1996 Perri O’Shaughnessy Invasion of Privacy

(July 1), p. 370 ! I took him out to his car and made it up to him. It was our first time. He wasn’t very good. I got out and got in my old bomber of a car and went home. 1997 Jo Ann Shroyer Secret Mesa (Oct. 10), p. 74 ! Mercer-Smith tore into the parking lot in a rusty yellow 1970s vintage LTD, a boatlike bomber of a car. 2002 John Case Eight Day (Nov. 26), p. 43 ! It didn’t seem like a good idea to arrive at Adele Slivinski’s office in the Bomber—it was a car that tended to make people skeptical of the driver. 2005 Stacy Ervin West Liberty Index (Iowa) (Apr. 5) “Racing: Kile Family Races Together, Stays Together” (Int.) ! When Kurt was 15, his parents bought him a “bomber” car, a vehicle which resembles some street cars and is also known as hobby stock.

bonk n. a sound made by a handheld radio, indicating a transmission cannot be made, characteristic of digital trunk radio systems typically used by fire and police departments. Also bonking. Technology.

1999 Hector L. Torres @ Baltimore, Md. Fire Chief (June 1) “Cooperative Communications” (Int.) ! Unlike our former system, the new system emits a “bonking” tone when a transmission doesn’t go through, so a user can then move to try to establish a better connection.

2004 Marquette County Firefighters Home Page (Detroit, Mich.) (Jan. 5) “Detroit Fire Dept. Message Board” (Int.) ! You find that the

digital signal can’t get thru the concrete and steel so you get the “out

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of range” bonking noise—which means you have to go over to a window so you can lean out to get a repeater to receive your signal. 2004

CapeCodFD.com (Cape Cod, Mass.) (July 2) “Communications System Fails” (Int.) ! Several “symptomatic” problems followed over the following days with a static sound trailing transmissions for a brief period and a number of “bonk” situations, where the ability to transmit was prevented for some reason. 2004 Jennifer Lin Philadelphia Inquirer (Pa.) (Oct. 1) “Council Hears of Radio Glitches at Fire” (Int.)

! Ayers testified that on the night of the row house fire, firefighters at the scene complained of an excessive level of blocked calls—or “bonking,” as they call it, for the busy signal the radios make when a call cannot be completed. *2004 Channels Close Up (Oct. 1) “Kansas City Upgrades and Training Win Praises,” vol. 2, no. 1 (Int.) ! A simple anecdote was told about how one of the city’s firefighters was concerned that the “NC bonk”—a feature designed to alert him when the radio was out of signal range—had not activated recently and thus was broken.

bonk v. in bicycling, to become exhausted. Also bonk out and bonking, n. Sports.

1979 J.A. Cuddon Macmillan Dictionary of Sports and Games, p. 119, in HDAS (1994) J.E. Lighter ! Bonk...A state of extreme fatigue caused by overexertion and lack of blood sugar. 1983 Usenet: net.bicycle

(June 27) “Joe Bike Reports from GEAR South” ! As we took off to follow Scott back, we noticed we had dropped Walter and the aforementioned bikie who bonked on the hill. 1984 Suzanne Charle N.Y. Times (Sept. 23) “‘Go for It’: Making Your Way in a Triathlon” ! But there is also the flip side, when fatigue hits all sets of muscles at once. If you’ve been riding hard and then start running, often it feels as if your thigh bones are no longer attached to your shinbones. Experienced athletes call this “cross-bonk.” 1986 James McNamara Washington Post (Aug. 15) “Cyclist’s Challenge: Turning 100” ! This is because such exercise will quickly deplete the body’s reserves, causing severe fatigue (in running this is called hitting the wall, in cycling it’s known as the bonk, which is the sound you make when you hit the wall). 1990 Usenet: rec.bicycles (Jan. 26) “Primer for Getting Started in Bike Racing” ! Even if you have a teamate in the break, chase it down. You never know when the guy could bonk and get dropped.

1990 Usenet: rec.bicycles (Apr. 25) “Cadence Matters” ! My goal is to be able to increase my efficiency at the higher cadences so I can spin without “blowing up” (in a crit) or “bonking” (in a long road race).

2005 Ventura County Star (Calif.) (July 4) “Cycling Through the Lingo” (Int.) ! Bonk: Term used to describe running out of energy when riding.

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boo-boo face n. a pout or pouty facial expression; moue; booboo lip, an out-thrust lip. Probably from the facial expression children make when they have a boo-boo ‘minor injury.’

1991 Usenet: soc.singles (Mar. 13) “Re: Sexual Fantasies” ! Michel, I’m soooo jealous....)-; (Best boo-boo face on the net....) 1993

Usenet: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery (Dec. 8) “ED ED ED” ! But I

caaaaaaaaaan’t telnet, only send mail (big whine)!! Can you please show me the way? Boo-boo lip sticking out bigtime. 1994 Stan

Savran Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pa.) (June 11) “Mother of All Strikes Premature End to Season Could Help Baseball in Long Run,” p. D6

! You’ll stomp your feet and put on your best boo-boo face and spew forth about how you’re not coming back, and that this time you really mean it. But you’ll come back. You always have. 1994 C. Johnston

Courier-Mail (Australia) (July 25) “Annalise’s Exit a Crying Shame”

!Drawing on the heaviest weapon from her considerable thespian arsenal, she makes a boo-boo face. As the tears stream down her cheeks, it is apparent to all but southern TV critics that Annalise has firmed in the betting for next year’s Gold Logie. I’ll go out on a limb here and state that no soap star makes boo-boo face like Annalise....

He said he was bloody upset too, and promised at the next premiers’ conference to put up for debate the question of whether watching

Annalise make boo-boo face deserves to be included in the Medicare schedule. 2000 Tina Wainscott A Trick of the Light (Mar. 1), p. 29

!“She’s so banged up,” Marilee wailed. “Bruised, a gash on her lip, a

scrape on her cheek, those beautiful curls all matted with blood. Girls, she has her boo-boo face on.” 2003 St. Petersburg Times (Fla.)

(Nov. 9) “Sapp Should Chase QBs, Not Spotlight,” p. 13C ! It is such a refreshing sight to see Warren the Sapp standing on the sideline with his boo-boo lip hanging out, looking “dumb”-founded, with nothing to say. 2004 Ian Demsky Tennessean (Nashville) (May 1) “Police Chief Encourages Letter Writers,” p. 8 ! “We’re not going to boo-boo lip,” he said. “I’m not going to come here and tell you what we can’t do. I’m not going to tell you what we don’t have. I’m not going to tell you all the reasons in the world you shouldn’t hold us accountable.”

boondocking n. living without conveniences such as municipal electricity or water, indoor plumbing, or grocery stores, especially when camping with a recreational vehicle; roughing it. [From the boondocks, a wild or unpopulated area, from the Tagalog bundoc or bondoc ‘a mountain.’] Variations on to boondock, according to the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, are the military sense of ‘to go into or through boondocks; to march through boondocks as punishment or training’; the youth or student sense

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