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Minister Really to See Chicago Vice,” p. 11 ! The “buffet flat” is thus termed because it is possible to buy all kinds of liquor in these places at all hours—and for all prices. 1916 Lincoln Daily News (Neb.)
(Sept. 8), p. 3 ! The Buffet Flat and Wine Room, Recruiting Stations for White Slavers, Exposed. 1927 Harvey Anderson @ NYC Port Arthur News (Tex.) (Jan. 9) “Buffet Flat Solves Many of High Society’s Drinking Problems,” p. 3 ! The casual, migratory and unskilled drinkers of the world, along with a scattering of habitual, non-migratory and skilful [sic] drinkers, have found a new haven. It is the buffet flat and the New York police are authority for the statement that there are now about 10,000 of these sheltered retreats in Manhattan and Brooklyn and they are diverting streams of “sucker” money from the night clubs and they constitute a new and baffling factor in the problem of liquor law enforcement. 1933 Nevada State Journal (Reno) (Dec. 17) “Emperor Jones Is Coming,” p. 7 ! Have you ever been to a buffet flat? It’s neither a lunchroom nor a variation of a western plain. It’s peculiar to Harlem, yet few white visitors to that Negro haven in New York City ever hear of it, and practically none get into one. In “Emperor Jones,” a picturization of Eugene O’Neill’s famous play...a buffet flat is shown in all its colorful detail. A buffet flat is simply a Harlem apartment to which people come to sit around, eat, drink, talk, sing and dance.
bug n. an illegal lottery; the numbers game. Gambling. Georgia. This term appears to be most common in Georgia and Alabama. It often takes the definite article: the bug.
1936 Joseph Ator Chicago Tribune (Oct. 25) “We Bet Five Billion,”
p. E10 ! The lottery is a poor man’s game. Its operators are the slummers of the gambling industry. There are, of course, exceptions. Society women play the “bug,” as the numbers game is called in Atlanta....
Atlanta arrests an average of a hundred “bug” agents a month. 1940
Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (May 18, 1993) !
Father, that is sure one bad, wicked place. They got a man sells tickets on the bug. [1946 Cullman Banner (Ala.) (Mar. 7) “Buettners Hold Annual Teachers Banquet,” p. 7 ! In the “Bug” game, Mrs. Donahoo won first and Mrs. Willoughby took second prize.] 1949 Dothan Eagle (Ala.) (May 21) “31 Persons Arrested by Authorities Here,” p. 2
! Pleading guilty to a lottery charge today was Pency Capane, Dothan Negress. The woman was arrested Saturday, along with another Negro on whom police said they found bug tickets. 1950 Ernest E. Blanche
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (May) “Lotteries Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” vol. 269, p. 74 ! The
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numbers game (known also as policy, clearing house, the bug, butter and eggs and other names) operates every day except Sunday throughout the year, players wagering anything from a penny upward on a three-digit number (000-999). 1951 Jim Thomasson @ Phenix City, Ala. Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Mich.) (May 17) “Alabama City Tames Down,” p. 11 ! Dice tables are covered in this robust Chattahoochee river town. Slot machines have disappeared. And if any bug tickets—lottery slips—are written, they are passed under the counter.
1959 Pharr (Stubblefield v. the State 38210) (Fulton Co., Ga.) (Dec. 17) “101 Ga. App. 481; 114 SE2d 221” (Int.) ! If you believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did possess “bug” or
lottery tickets, and that they were a part of the paraphernalia of the lottery known as the “bug” or numbers game, and the defendant thus aided, assisted and participated in the carrying on of the lottery, if one was carried on, you would be authorized to convict the defendant of this charge. 1993 Charles Walston Atlanta Constitution (Ga.)
(Aug. 8) “Experts Say State Lotteries Compete with Illegal Numbers Games in Cities,” p. D5 ! Three-digit lottery games with daily drawings, such as the one that starts Tuesday in Georgia, are virtually identical in format to longtime illegal games—the “Bug” in Atlanta, the “Numbers” up north, and the “Bolita” among the Hispanic communities of South Florida. 1995 Bill Montgomery Atlanta JournalConstitution (Nov. 29) “‘The Bug’: Shadow of Former Self Numbers Racket Survives, But Lottery Has Cost It Players,” p. B1 ! The illegal numbers racket known as “the bug” lives on after the murder this week of one of its one-time kingpins.
Bugs Bunny changeup n. in baseball, a slow pitch disguised as a fast ball that seems to stop in front of the plate. Sports. United States.
[1993 Javier Morales Arizona Daily Star (June 30) “Barrett’s ‘Super Slow Ball’ Baffles Edmonton,” p. 5D ! I perplexed them with my super slow ball.... I think I remember Bugs Bunny saying that once.]
1997 John Henderson Denver Post (Colo.) (May 5) “Schilling Might Have Looked Nice in Purple” ! Catcher Jeff Reed calls the superb changeup by Philadelphia’s Mark Portugal a “Bugs Bunny changeup.” Why? “Because it just stops right there,” Reed said. 2004 Mark Whicker @ Omaha, Neb. Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (June 25) “Fullerton’s Sarver an Unlikely Story” (Int.) ! The newest entry into the baseball vernacular is “Bugs Bunny changeup.” Translation: It rushes up to the plate and then suddenly stops. Sarver fed the Gamecocks carrots and lettuce all night.
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bukateria n. a cafeteria, canteen, or simple eating-place. Also buka. Food & Drink. Nigeria. [< ? buka + cafeteria] The etymological information in the second 2002 cite has not been verified.
1999 Bamidele Adebayo @ Lagos, Nigeria All Africa (July 18) “Campus of Deaths” ! In 1996, a lecturer in the department of food, science and technology and the proprietor of A la-carte, a restaurant in the new bukateria of the university, was gunned down by people suspected to be secret cult members. 2002 Ian R. Young @ Ibadan, Nigeria CASLIS Atlantic Newsletter (Can.) (Apr.) “‘Ile-Ikawe’ Means ‘House of Readers’ or ‘Library’ in Yoruba,” vol. 9, no. 3 (Int.) ! A typical nutritious “chop house” or “bukateria” meal of pounded yam, melon seed and palm oil stew, accompanied by a couple pieces of beef—all eaten with one’s bare hand—plus a Coke costs N60, or about US$0.50. 2002 Molara Ogundipe A Sunday Afternoon with Ayi Kwei Armah (Aug.) (Int.) ! From this restaurant of the people or bukateria (from the Hausa word, buka, for eating house) as we would say in Nigeria, simple and pleasing in its decor, everywhere you looked you saw the sea. 2002 Victor Akobundu (All Africa) (Nigeria) (Aug. 30) “Season of the Wonder Crop” ! Meanwhile, those who ran the bukateria, an eating place for the common man, have introduced the corn meal or corn vita (Tuwo Masara). 2004 Sam Umukoro, Dafe Ivwurie
Vanguard (Apapa, Nigeria) (May 23) “Ozekhome: A Generalissimo in Whom 72 Kings Are Well Pleased” (Int.) ! We asked the chief who hails from Iviukwe in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State if he visits these eateries popularly called “mama put” in Nigerian parlance. His words: “Yes, even now I like eating in the bukateria. I like this mama put system where you go to the pot and point out the orisirisi (assortment of meat), the edo (liver), the saki, the ponmo and the rest.”
bullets and beans n.pl. the weapons, munitions, equipment, and supplies of a military; material. Military. See the cites for variations, which are usually alliterative.
1950 Washington Post (Nov. 19) “Korea Airlift Carried 100,000 Passengers” (in Feaf Combat Cargo Command, Japan), p. M2 ! The commander said the airlift carried more than 63,000 tons of bullets and beans and 100,000 passengers in that period. 1978 Ruth S. Knowles
! Like the first war, World War II was—in Admiral Nimitz’ words—”a matter of oil, bullets and beans.” 1989 Charles W. Koburger The Cyrano Fleet
(Mar. 7), p. 111 ! As far as the officers of the fleet went, they had still to be fully involved with the day-to-day running of their departments, and with their ships. Their problems revolved around “bullets, beans, and black oil.” 1994
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Knee (June 1), p. 40 (Mar. 30, 2004) ! General Vandegrift’s order was brief: “Take only that with is necessary to fight and live.” This meant bullets, beans, and blankets. 2001 John Bowe Gig (Aug. 21), p. 570 ! I have to oversee all the maintenance of the airplanes as well as make sure we’ve got all the bombs and bullets and beans we’re sup-
posed to have everywhere. 2003 Chuck Pfarrer Warrior Soul (Dec. 30), p. 172 (Dec. 28, 2004) ! Daily, landing craft disgorged trucks, jeeps, and trailers onto the piers, supplying the troops with bullets, beans, and butt wipe. 2005 Scott Gold, Rone Tempest KTLA-TV (L.A.)
(July 27) “Army Probes Guard Unit” (Int.) ! The first sergeant holds an important position of authority in a company and is largely responsible for overseeing the preparedness and welfare of the soldiers in the unit—”bullets and beans,” in the vernacular of the Army.
bull tailing n. a sport in which mounted riders take down bulls by the tail. Also steer tailing. Animals. Mexico. Sports. United States. Known in Venezuela as toros coleados; in Mexico as las colas or colas en el lienzo.
1880 Chester Daily Times (Pa.) (Mar. 13) “All Sorts,” p. 2 ! General Grant did not like bull tailing in Mexico, a sort of substitute for the scarcely more barbarous bull fight. When one bull was thrown and had his leg broken, and another bayoneted, General Grant abru[p]tly retired. “I never saw this sport before, and I shall never see it again,” he remarked on the way back. 1985 Ramon Bracamontes Dallas Morning News (Dec. 22) “‘Charro’ Life Full of Danger; Mexican-Style Rodeos Attract El Paso Riders,” p. 73A ! The nine events in the overall competition are horse showmanship, horse roping, bull tailing, bull riding, rope showmanship, bronco riding, foot roping, horse roping and the pass of death. 2004 WKMG-TV (Tallahassee, Fla.) (Apr. 24) “Senate Passes Ban on ‘Bull Tailing’ ” (Int.) ! The rodeo-like sport of bull tailing, or Toros Coleados, which Venezuelan immigrants have brought to South Florida, involves cowboys on horseback who grab a running bull by the tail and pull it down. There’s a similar event in Mexico, known as colas.
burner n. a gun, especially a handgun. Slang. United States.
1988 Sari Horwitz Washington Post (Apr. 24) “A Drug-Selling Machine That Was All Business,” p. A1 ! In another seizure, police recovered a crude, handwritten drug-trade manual from a PCP ring.... It listed the “workers” and the “deliverers,” assigning beepers, walkie-talkies, police scanners and “burners” (guns) to them. 1989 Bill Nichols, Mike McQueen USA Today (1A) (Apr. 25) “D.C. Crack Street Fights to Survive” ! Burner A gun, usually a handgun. 1992 Sue Anne Pressley, Keith Harriston Washington Post (Feb. 2) “A Crazed Fascination
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with Guns,” p. A1 ! The inmates talked about their crimes in a generally easy manner, some with a lingo that focused on “beefs,” or disputes, and then getting “a burner,” or gun, to settle the score. 2004
Alex Wood Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Conn.) (Dec. 11) “Man Who Shot at Cops Says He Was Scared” (Int.) ! He said he had had an altercation on Zion Street the previous morning with a man who had threatened him, saying, “You better keep your burner on you tonight.” “Burner” is a slang expression for a gun. 2005 Curtis Johnson HeraldDispatch (Huntington, W.Va.) (Apr. 21) “Witness Points Finger at Fields” (Int.) ! “He asked Justin to get him his burner, because he was going to murk that bitch,” White said. In testimony, White said “burner” was a word meaning “pistol, gun” and “murk” meant to “murder, kill.”
burn off v. in entertainment television, to broadcast un-aired episodes of a canceled program. Entertainment. Jargon. Media.
1986 Ed Bark Dallas Morning News (Tex.) (May 31) “‘Dallas’ Gets New Time Slot for Summer,” p. 1F ! The summer season, used primarily to burn off reruns, failed series pilots and documentaries, is becoming more important as a possible springboard for freshman series that had modest ratings in the regular season. 1992 Greg Dawson Chicago Tribune (Dec. 11) “Hopes Ride on ‘Burn Off’ Viewers,”
p. 8 ! VQT pins its slender hopes on seven unseen episodes of “Brooklyn Bridge” that CBS plans to air (“burn off” in TV lingo) sometime after the first of the year. 1996 Lon Grahnke Chicago SunTimes (June 5) “Networks ‘Burn Off’ 5 Canceled Series,” p. 53 ! In TV lingo, networks “burn off” episodes of rejected series after the official prime-time season ends in May.... The burnoff season also provides a bonus for viewers, giving them a fresh alternative to the nightly diet of reruns. Sometimes the final burned-off episodes of a high-quality, low-rated series. 2005 Joanne Ostrow Denver Post (Colo.) (Feb. 14) “Listening in on the Moguls” (Int.) ! Burn-Off Theater...the presentation of shelved losers and leftovers, ie. making use of pilots that didn’t go. Fox president G. Berman: “Summer isn’t just for Burn-Off Theater anymore.”
buscon n. In the Dominican Republic, a facilitator for legal or bureaucratic matters, such as a job recruiter for organizations in the United States or a baseball scout. Also buscone. Dominican Republic. Spanish. Sports. United States. [From the Spanish buscón
‘rogue,’ ‘cheat,’ ‘pettifogger,’ with the etymological connection to buscar ‘to search’ probably also coming into play.] The form buscone is an Anglophone back-formation from the Spanish plural
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buscones. The bracketed items in the 1996 citation are found in the original text.
1991 Gregory Katz @ Bon Repos Repatriation Center, Haiti Dallas Morning News (Oct. 25) “Haitians Feel Oppression from Dominican Bias,” p. 1A ! The new system calls for Dominican and Haitian buscones, or recruiters, to go to Haiti and promise workers easy money, good housing and soft jobs. 1996 Bill Chastain Tampa Tribune (Fla.) (Jan. 28) “Dominican Connections Benefit Rays” ! “Whenever you sign one of their players you have to pay [the buscone] $500 or $1,000. Either that or they will take it off [the prospect’s] bonus.”
1998 Gordon Edes @ San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic Boston Globe (Mar. 27) “Red Sox Are Digging Deeply into One of the Richest Troves of Talent Anywhere,” p. F3 ! “But now if you don’t sign a player on the day he tries out, the buscon will take him to another team,” Norman said. “And now, some buscones are going to agents instead.” 2002 Jim Salisbury Philadelphia Inquirer (Pa.) (July 23) “Search for Dominican Talent No Longer a Hit-or-Miss Affair” ! Throw
a scout, an agent, a coach and an entrepreneur into a blender, then mix, and you have a buscone (boo-SCONE-ay). 2003 (Efe News Ser-
vices) (Sept. 18) “La Ligas Mayores quieren poner control sobre agentes dominicanos” (in Washington, D.C.) ! La proliferacion de “buscones,” refleja el crecimiento de la actividad de los cazatalentos en la Republica Dominicana, de donde salen al menos una cuarta parte de los peloteros que juegan bajo contrato en equipos de las Grandes Ligas. 2004 Ed Price Baseball America ESPN (May 8) “Rosario Signing Raises Red Flag” (Int.) ! They paid $100,000 to Ivan Noboa—a “buscone,” or independent developer of talent in the Dominican—and gave Rosario a $400,000 bonus. 2004 German Marte Hoy (Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.) (July 17) “Denuncian anomalías obtener documentos” (Int.) ! Obtener una acta de nacimiento en la Oficialía Civil de la Segunda Circunscripción del Distrito Nacional es una verdadera odisea para cualquiera, “a menos que usted se cantee con RD$350 y le pague a un buscón,” denunciaron ayer varias personas. 2004 Matt Lockhart Charleston Daily Mail (W.Va.) (July 21) “Some Alley Cats Still Learning to Talk the Talk” (Int.) ! Signing is also a major issue currently in the Dominican Republic. Talent hunters, buscones as they call them, journey the streets and fields for ambitious ball players. Buscones promise a chance at professional baseball, but it comes at a price. While agents in the United States charge
around five percent of a client’s signing bonus and salary, buscones have been known to demand more than 35 percent. *2004 U.S. State
Dept. (U.S. Embassy, Dom. Rep.) (Aug. 4) “Cuidado con los Buscones”
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(Int.) ! Estamos seguros de que no tiene dinero para desperdiciar, y nosotros en la Sección Consular no queremos que usted se convierta en víctima de los buscones y tigueres que hacen promesas que no pueden cumplir.
bustdown n. a promiscuous or undesirable woman; a ho; a bitch. Also bust down, busdown. Black English. Chicago. Hip-Hop. Slang. United States. This term appears to be common in Chicago.
2003 [Ana] The Java Arcade (Mar. 2) “Hoe He Don’t Want u trick” (Int.) ! Bowwow is mine the real Shad Moss A.K.A. Bowwow right here bitch you busdown ass hoe. 2003 Diplomats Diplomatic Immu- I’m on the westside of Chi-
cago, lookin’ for a bust down/And make me put my two arms up, Touchdown! 2003 LaShaunna Watkins Northern Star (Dekalb, Ill.) (Nov. 11) “E.B.O.N.Y. Confronts ‘Bust Downs’ ” (Int.) ! Nekika Skinner, president of E.B.O.N.Y. Women, said a “bust down” is a girl who sleeps with numerous people without any discretion and also carries herself in a bad manner. [2004 Steven G. Fullwood
Stevengfullwood.org (NYC) (Feb. 27) “My Friend, the Pimp” (Int.)
! One day while working at a hair salon that he owns, Jeff explains to me that he was constantly being asked by the young black women who frequented the shop to bring a bunch of “ballers” (men with money who enjoy flossing) together and host a party so that they
could make some money by performing sexual acts. The name of such an event is a called a bust-down.] *2004 Judy Howell Foster and
Adoptive Care Association of Minnesota (Mar. 11) “When Will I Be
Loved?” (Int.) ! She is no longer a ho or a busdown or a bitch as she had been told day-in and day-out by her birth mother. 2004 [loser-
punk17] carMen’s Journal (Calumet City, Ill.) (Apr. 16) (Int.) ! “im gettting low with some bitches and some hoes, what? getting low? like a bustdown?” “steven is mad? ok i got to bust down tonite” we are bust downs! 2004 [G.O.D.] SOHH.com (May 9) “Women Enjoy Sex Just as Much as Men” (Int.) ! Man...this chic let me fukk the first night...she’s a bustdown...i’m gonna have fun with her for a couple months than skate. 2004 [mzcurtisjacksonnigga] @ Chicago, Ill. G-Unit Board (May 10) “Sexy Niggas Need a Hardcore Rated-X Bitch!!” (Int.)
! U nasty as hell u shouldnt put yo self out there like that its makes u look like a bustdown, a ho, a infected ass female and shit jus plain nasty. 2004 [HipHopGenius] Eminem Forum (May 12) “$tinger vs. Hiphopgenius (5-3)” (Int.) ! He so ugly he paid a bustdown just to give him a kiss. 2004 Iconator (Aug. 13) “Paris Hilton No Marts634” (Int.) ! Paris is a busdown yo and has a crow nose because shes so friggin rich she a spoiled brat. 2004 [I’m Deon] @ Detroit, Mich.
411Hype.com (Aug. 16) “Love Ain’t” (Int.) ! She went from boo to
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busdown?...rofl. 2004 [Jasmine] Right On! Magazine (Oct. 9) “Guestbook” (Int.) ! Hold up wait a minute mz b weezy don came up in it. Holl aback i love bow wow and 50 cent also but bow is my # 1 boo forever and always so all yall little busdown wannabes need to back dat azz away fa you get merked. [2005 nbamami @ Va. Blackfolk (Jan. 9) “WOW: I Found This Small Gossip at groovevolt.com’s Guess What Section” (Int.) ! Bentley is a bust down, he’s an ugly dude. It sounds like fake groupie stories.] 2005 [Christopher] Christopher’s Windy City Weblog (Chicago, Ill.) (Feb. 21) “Teaching on the South Side: Language” (Int.) ! A “bust-down” (pronounced “busdown,” and sometimes abbreviated as “bussy” or “busser”) is a woman of loose
morals (although my students would define it by using graphic examples of what such a woman does). *2005 [Baby2Phat] @ Chicago, Ill.
BlackPlanet.com (Feb. 21) “Baby2Phat’s BlackPlanet.com Personal
Page” (Int.) ! She a pimp but when it comes down to it so dont treat her like no busdown. *2005 Quient (Q-Dogg) @ Chicago, Ill. Black-
Planet.com (Feb. 21) “25Gee-Q’s BlackPlanet.com Personal Page” (Int.)
!When I look 4 a woman I don’t look 4 a busdown, a party, a motor-
head, golddigger, or a girl that is just not right to herself.
*2005 [Smoke] Mixedrace.com (Feb. 21) “lil_smoke2004” (Int.)
!What I’m NOT lookin for in a girl...a neighborhood ho...a busdown. *2005 [D.J. Rader] @ Chicago BlackPlanet.com (Feb. 21)
“Djrader’s BlackPlanet.com Personal Page” (Int.) ! A head strong woman that knows what she want in life and has goals for herself. An educated woman not a dumb @$$ busdown.
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C4ISR n. the integration of intelligence and communications functions (of a military group). Acronym. Jargon. Military. United States.
1995 Defense News (Dec. 18) “Information Laboratory Would Link C4 Efforts US Defense Officials Want to Invest More Than $1 Bil to Establish C4ISR Decision Support Center” ! C4ISR stands for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems needed for effective battle. 1996 Jim Mannion (Agence France-Presse) (July 25) “Today’s Terrorist Threats Among Pentagon’s Military Research Priorities” ! The programs generally eschew big new weapon systems, focusing instead on developing software to pull together all the strands of military intelligence gathering and communications into manageable formats. In US military parlance, this is “C4ISR.” 2004 Stephen Blank Asia Times (Hong Kong) (May 5) “Spinning the Nuclear Missile Wheel” (Int.) ! China is building more missiles and also appears to be focusing on depriving either side’s defenses from finding its missiles and thus concentrates on attacking their command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities (C4ISR in military parlance) while also moving to join the other two governments in weaponizing space.
caging n. the processing of responses to a fund-raising or marketing campaign, especially when concerning money. Advertising. Jargon. [Perhaps related to a teller’s cage.]
1981 Morton Mintz Washington Post (Feb. 7) “Outsider Money Inside a California District,” p. A3 ! The contribution checks went to a Viguerie “caging function” here for processing. Peck protested, charging that Dornan’s campaign was “run out of Falls Church.” Recognizing that “Peck’s got a point,” Steinberg said he had felt that the return envelopes should have been pre-addressed to a Post Office box in the district. He prevailed early this year, and the caging chore was moved to Santa Monica. 1984 Jay Mathews @ Sacramento, Calif. Washington Post (July 3) “‘Booming Enterprise’ New Forces Take Political Initiative”
! Computer Caging (caging is the direct-mail industry term for collecting money) had raised money for Gann’s fight to preserve Proposition 13 from a legal counter-attack. 1989 Fund Raising Management
(Jan. 1) “How to Cut Costs on Gift Processing,” vol. 19, no. 11, p. 35
! Many people use many terms for this service. Some of them are:
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lock box operation, cashiering, scanning operation, caging operation, cash management, and OCR operation. 1990 Susan Hovey Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management (Nov. 1) “Playing It Smart: Going Global Means Finding Readers, Managing Editorial, Delivering the Goods, and Getting Paid in Currency You Can Use,” p. 148 ! Clients saw a 14 percent increase in subscribers in 1988 from use of KLM’s caging/cashiering service, compared to a 3 percent rise in those countries where subscribers had to send a U.S. money order. 1995 Denison Hatch Target Marketing (Oct. 1) “Suspect Until Proven Otherwise,” vol. 18, no. 10, p. 66 ! Caging is the receipt of mail to locked cages where clerks extract and count money. 2003 Assoc. of Fundraising Professionals AFP Fundraising Dictionary (June 9), p. 18 (Int.) ! caging,—noun Informal. the process or act of collecting donations by an entity other than the not-for-profit organization for which they were solicited. 2003 Richard W. Stevenson N.Y. Times (Oct. 22) “Bush Spending for ‘04 Tops Any Rival’s,” p. A19 ! When the checks come in, they are subject to one of the strangest entries on the campaign’s expense ledger: “batching and caging,” or opening the envelopes, sorting the checks and keeping them secure. 2004 Greg Palast Baltimore Chronicle (Md.) (Nov. 2) “An Election Spoiled Rotten” (Int.) ! The GOP’s announced plan to block 35,000 voters in Ohio ran up against the wrath of federal judges; so, in Florida, what appear to be similar plans had been kept under wraps until the discovery of documents called “caging” lists.
Califunny n. a jocular or derisive name for California. California. United States.
1991 Usenet: alt.sex.bondage (Sept. 10) “Re: Incest” ! I have known of three sets of siblings who had sex with one another (no, I don’t peek in windows and ask leading questions). Two, some time ago back in redneckland and one in sometime free and easy Marin County Califunny. 1994 Usenet: comp.org.eff.talk (Feb. 25) “Re: Over 10,000 Have Signed Petition to Oppose Clipper” ! Does he use a bed_of_nails keyboard so it REALLY feels good when he’s replying? Well, no surprise really. He _is_ after all, posting from Southern Califunny. All that smog, for all those years. 2004 [Vee Koz] My NeverNeverland (Sept. 27) “I Did It” (Int.) ! I voted once for a governor, with Boucher’s help, when I was living in Califunny. Alas, Arnold won.
Canada point n. a place away from a city’s center where newspapers are distributed to newsboys and news agents. Media. NYC. [Probably by comparison of the remote locations of such centers of distribution to the vast expanses of Canada, although it is pos-
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