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Off a cliff
 
2009

People using constrained to mean almost anything: “18 contemporary Chinese artists whose work has not been constrained by the rapid expansion in demand for Chinese art in recent years.” University of East Anglia press release

sales have fallen off a cliff

suck for draw or extract

everything is broken, not just society

people are using bolthole a lot in February, especially  having to rent out one’s Devon bolthole because of the credit crunch

crinkly is now crinkle (as in crinkle blouse)

swerve for avoid

upline (people above you in network marketing genealogy)

uplift in value

hinterland popular April

kettle (verb) (what the police do to protesters)

older ladies are now called senior women

decompress

boobs have become rack

flipping and churning what MPs do with houses

vulture funds buy third world debt cheaply then go to court to enforce payment of full amount

Fill your boots popular 1st week of May 09.

metroplex hastily built out-of-town city

convulse for what exactly? Rural communities are being convulsed by arguments for and against wind power. Guardian May 7, 2004

scrappage (of cars)

capacity building

carbon leakage
moving industry outside zone which makes you pay for emitting CO2

CBD central business district

Woot! I want one of those.

People have stopped using major at last.

talking trash
 
webinar

whippits inhaling nitrous oxide

glurge inspirational emails about miracles happening to ordinary people

scrobble assembling a playlist on a social music site

larp playing a role-playing game in ordinary life (Live Action Role Playing)

modern day for modern

huge for big, vast, large, high, massive, enormous

decolletage for bust

tectonic
 
workies for interns