| aerophobe | A person who is afraid to travel by air. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| Amarone | A full-bodied dry red wine made from grapes dried after picking in the Valpolicella… | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| bakeware | Cooking vessels for baking, regarded collectively. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| bicoastal | Concentrated at, taking place on, or involving two coasts, esp. the east and west coasts of the United States. | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| bioastronautics | With sing. concord. The branch of science concerned with the physiological… | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| bippy | you bet your (sweet) bippy and variants: be assured, certainly; cf. bet v. c. Hence: the buttocks, the backside. | 1968 | Go To Quotation |
| def | Excellent, outstanding; fashionable, ‘cool’. | 1981 | Go To Quotation |
| dexter | = poindexter n. | 1985 | Go To Quotation |
| do-rag | Among African-Americans: a scarf or cloth worn on the head to protect a processed… | 1968 | Go To Quotation |
| down-beat | Pessimistic, gloomy, sombre; relaxed, unemphatic. | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| dullsville | An imaginary town characterized by extreme dullness or boredom; hence, a state… | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| endsville | The greatest, the best; the imaginary home of good things or people. | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| filmless | Designating or relating to imaging methods and equipment that do not use… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| glop | A liquid or viscous substance or mixture; spec. inferior or unappetising food. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| Hispanic | A Spanish-speaking person, esp. one of Latin-American descent, living in the U.S. Chiefly in pl. | 1972 | Go To Quotation |
| jet-set | intr. To travel in the manner of the jet set; to pursue the lifestyle of the jet set. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| jet-setting | Characterized by or engaging in jet setting; of or belonging to the jet set. | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| make-out | Relating to, associated with, or suitable for ‘making out’ (cf. to make out at make v.… | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| mediocritize | trans. To make mediocre, to reduce to a common level of mediocrity. | 1972 | Go To Quotation |
| missileer | = missile man n. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| mixed grill | A dish consisting of several different grilled or fried items of food. Also fig. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Nashville | Designating a style of country and western music originating in or associated… | 1951 | Go To Quotation |
| no-brow | Having, or regarded as having, little or no intellectual or cultural value; demanding… | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| noughties | With the. The decade from 2000 to 2009. | 1989 | Go To Quotation |
| Osterizer | A proprietary name for: a type of electric food mixer. Also fig. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| pandoro | A type of Italian cake, originating in Verona, similar to panettone but without… | 1950 | Go To Quotation |
| panzer | A German armoured unit; a German tank. Freq. attrib., esp. in panzer division. Also fig. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| paperback | trans. To publish in a paperback edition. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| Pinterism | A literary device or effect characteristic of Pinter; a laconic or brooding style; the quality of being Pinteresque. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| Queer Nation | A notional community of people united by homosexuality, lesbianism, or by a shared belief… | 1989 | Go To Quotation |
| retronym | A neologism created for an existing object or concept because the exact meaning of… | 1980 | Go To Quotation |
| rotelle | A variety of pasta made in the shape of small wagon-wheels. Also: a type of pasta in the… | 1956 | Go To Quotation |
| sautoir | A long necklace consisting of a fine gold chain usu. set with jewels. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| self-tanner | A lotion or other product designed to give the skin a suntanned appearance. Cf. tanner n. 2, fake tan n. at fake n. Additions. | 1989 | Go To Quotation |
| self-tanning | Of a lotion or other product: that gives the skin a suntanned appearance. | 1980 | Go To Quotation |
| splib | Among African Americans: a black person. | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| Taser | trans. To use a Taser on (a person); to subdue or incapacitate using a Taser. | 1976 | Go To Quotation |
| tokenism | The practice or policy of making merely a token effort or granting only minimal… | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| tsutsumu | The Japanese art of wrapping or packaging items in an attractive and appropriate way. | 1975 | Go To Quotation |
| verbalizable | Capable of being expressed in words; able to be verbalized. | 1981 | Go To Quotation |
| way-in | Conventional; fashionable, sophisticated. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| Zelig | A person who is able to change his or her appearance, behaviour, attitudes, etc., so as… | 1984 | Go To Quotation |
