| achiever
fever |
condition
that reduces life to a permanent round of work-related activities |
| road rage/trolley rage/golf rage |
extreme anger on roads/supermarkets/golf courses |
| home shopping |
purchase of goods from home (eg.by cable TV) |
| ego-surfing |
searching
the Internet for occurences of your own name |
| grebo |
British
urban youth cult favouring heavy metal and punk rock music |
| domophobia |
a
severe hostility towards the Millennium Dome (in the Docklands) |
| microphobes |
opponents
of Microsoft |
| high-five |
two
people slapping their hand over their heads |
| A-OK (Am slang) |
eins a |
| keyhole surgery |
invasive Chirugie |
| videofit |
Phantombild, das
am Bildschirm erstellt wird |
| traffic calming |
Verkehrsberuhigung |
| slaphead |
jd, der nur wenig
o. keine Haare auf d. Kopf hat |
| to go ballistic |
an die Decke gehen |
| downsizing |
Stellenabbau |
| ATM (atomated teller
machine) |
Geldautomat, Bankomat |
| outworker |
HeimarbeiterIn |
| EFT (electronic
funds transfer) |
elektronischer Zahlungsverkehr |
| chill out (Am slang) |
sich beruhigen, relaxen |
| gateway drug |
Einstiegsdroge |
| technophobe |
jd, der Technomusik
ablehnt |
| style slave |
jd, der sich nur
nach der neuesten Mode kleidet |
| odd ball |
a strange person (komischer Vogel) |
| street/road pizza |
flattened body of dead animal on the road |
| pink-collar job |
jobs like telephone operator or receptionist (in contrast to white and blue-collar jobs |
| red-letter day |
a particularly memorable and important day |
| spin doctor |
a public relations expert (usu. with politicians) whose job it is to builod up his employer's reputation or image |
| money puker |
an automatic teller machine/cashpoint (Geldautomat) |