For example, in ordinary parlance 'word' is ambiguous between lexeme (as in "Color and colour are spellings of the same word") and lexical unit (as in "there are thirteen words in the tongue-twister How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?").
For example: In funeral parlance, "direct cremation" consists of the bare minimum services of body transport, refrigeration/storage, cremation without a viewing, and ashes in a cardboard box.
Blake Hounshell, the managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, noted there could be more of what are known as insider, or green-on-blue, attacks in Afghanistan, for example — green being American military parlance for indigenous forces, blue for its own.
In current parlance, masculinity is constructed, performed and malleable, and one culture's defect (homosexuality, for example) may be another's virtue.
Each domain concludes with a two-week examination called a "Boss Level"—a common phrase in video-game parlance.Freeing the helotsIn one of the units of Being, Space and Place, for example, pupils take on the role of an ancient Spartan who has to assess Athenian strengths and recommend a course of action.
Many new recipes try to expand what are known in food marketing parlance as "usage occasions," recasting olive oil not just as a baking staple but also, for example, as suitable for pan-frying at high heats.
Last spring, for example, Xanax vendor HulkedBenzoBoss began offering direct deals ("DDs", in dark net parlance), as well as customer support, over the app.
At Harvard Business School, for example, which is pass/fail, only about 3 to 4 percent of students "hit the screen," Harvard parlance for being brought up for review by a faculty-administrative committee.
For example, if I tell you not to use the N-word, that I do not use the N-word, that I don't want to hear anyone use the N-word, and then you use it in whatever hipster parlance or context seems A-OK, you are not deferring to my experience with a word that I clearly find racially offensive.
The phrase continues to be reflexively used in the rap world, and it has now been adopted ironically by upper-middle-class white people, in whose parlance "It's all good" is usually a way of preëmptively closing a conversation — a discussion of the final episode of "The Sopranos," for example — and segueing to the next topic: where to find the best sushi in the East Village.
