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  • culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
  • curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
  • haskell curry — (person)   Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • horror-struck — stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
  • house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
  • huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
  • kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • knuckle under — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
  • labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • mackerel gull — tern1 .
  • mandarin duck — a crested Asian duck, Aix galericulata, having variegated purple, green, chestnut, and white plumage.
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
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