whale
whale n.— «Lanni courts the casino’s best clients—”whales,” in industry parlance—taking semiannual trips to Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai and Singapore, where he hosts as many as three dinners in one...
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NFL city footprint n.— «Las Vegas-based CommPartners intends to cover 95 percent of domestic U.S. local calling areas with its IP/PSTN CLEC network by year’s end. It already has more than 20 state...
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perfumed prince n.— «The only souls who would benefit from their current plans are the Perfumed Princes of the Beltway. Maybe they should call it “The Party of the Bureaucrat.”» —“The lines are drawn”...
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square n.— «Everybody makes money off “squares,” the derogatory term for amateur bettors Vegas types use only privately for fear of offending customers.» —“Football bettors put billions on the line”...
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dancing lemons n.— «As the school trustees resume their hunt, it’s become increasingly obvious that this exercise is flawed. Perhaps fatally. With head- hunter Bill Attea on the case, we’re just...
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beer pong n.— «Urban Outfitters stocks a popular beer pong kit called Bombed and boxed sets of rules for other games. In January, thousands of players are expected at the first World Series of Beer...
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d-rail v.— «Generation Y’s version of drunk dialing is d-railing, a term meaning e-mailing while drunk.…He threw back a few beverages that had been on sale at the grocery store—from Pabst Blue Ribbon...
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box job n.— «Prosecutors have alleged Chapman, Flanagan, Jacobi and others created shell corporations and sold securities while hiding the fact that they controlled all the shares of stock—a scheme...
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