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) |