Other students also relate the use of parlance linked to skin color.
She brought out samples of locally blown glass pipes — "pieces," in her parlance.
It was a loss leader for the next deal -- the Google Gravy Train to come or, in Hollywood parlance, a piece of the back end.
Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart therefore propose putting the virus inside a microscopic cavity and cooling it down to its state of lowest energy (ground state, in physics parlance) using a piece of apparatus known as a laser trap.
Guides anchor at the top of a piece of promising water — a drop, in Ponoi parlance.
When the Hachette dispute flared up, I "flew a sign," street parlance for panhandling with a piece of cardboard: "I was an order picker at amazon.com.
My supervising resident told me that I had been naïve to have any faith in Vinny's promises; he was, in the parlance of the resident, like all addicts, an S.P.O.S. a subhuman piece of shit.
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It's just become part of the parlance of law enforcement".
An unlikely American whose name has become part of American parlance is rapper Sister Souljah.
