| Ally Pally | The familiar nickname of Alexandra Palace in Muswell Hill, north London, the original headquarters of BBC television. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| autocross | (a) Brit. A form of cross-country motor racing. Now rare. (b) A form of motor racing in… | 1956 | Go To Quotation |
| banditism | The practices of bandits. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| beetler | One who beetles (cloth, etc.). | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| brainwash | An instance of brainwashing; a means of brainwashing. | 1950 | Go To Quotation |
| business case | A (usually leather) case for carrying papers, etc., and intended for use by a businessperson; a briefcase. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| clippety-clop | The sound made by a horse's hoofs, or a noise resembling this. | 1928 | Go To Quotation |
| dawn man | Usu. with capital initials: the (fraudulent) Piltdown man, ‘ Eoanthropus ’. Also: any early extinct hominid. | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| demine | In warfare: to remove mines from. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| deviller | A ‘devil’ or literary hack. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| flatman | One who navigates a flat. See flat n. 9a. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| globe-trot | intr. To engage in globetrotting. Also trans. (rare). | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Grahamize | trans. To cause (letters) to be opened when passing through the post. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| gravitas | = gravity n. 3. | 1924 | Go To Quotation |
| magnaflux | trans. To test using the magnaflux method. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| matrilinear | = matrilineal adj. Also fig. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| micromesh | Material (esp. nylon) or netting consisting of a very fine mesh. Freq. attrib. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| miskick | A bad, clumsy, or incorrectly executed kick; an instance of miskicking. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| mono | Monophonic recording or reproduction; freq. in in mono. Opposed to stereo. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| monstre sacré | A striking or eccentric public figure; a person of controversial renown, esp. in the world of entertainment. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| muggler | A person who smokes marijuana. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| needlecord | A finely ribbed corduroy fabric; (in pl.) trousers made of this. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| non-frat | = non-fraternization n. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Africander | Of or relating to all Afrikaners; of, relating to, or designating a government or… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| rebadge | trans. To assign a new or different badge, name, etc.; (in later use) spec. to market (a… | 1954 | Go To Quotation |
| rebadging | The provision of a new or different badge, name, etc.; (in later use) spec. the marketing of… | 1950 | Go To Quotation |
| recategorize | trans. To assign to another category; to reclassify. | 1917 | Go To Quotation |
| retexturize | trans. To reimpart a particular texture to; to change the texture of. In later use esp.… | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| Saturdaying | In the Soviet Union: the practice of working on a Saturday without pay for the benefit… | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| scène à faire | The most important scene in a play or opera, made inevitable by the action which leads up to it. Also transf. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| seamfree | Of stockings: = seamless adj. Also absol. as n. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| self-identification | Identification with something outside oneself. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| speakerine | A woman announcer on radio or television; a television hostess. | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| swanking | = swank n. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| unzippered | = unzipped adj. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| Vo-Ag | Short for Vocational Agriculture, agriculture considered as a subject of study for those… | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| welfarist | One who is concerned with welfare, esp. that of animals. Also attrib. or as adj. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
