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arm candy
(attractive person)
DWB
(driving while black)
ED
(erectile dysfunction)
energy bar
(nutritious high-protein bar)
erectile dysfunction
(impotence)
exabyte
(1024 or 1000 petabytes)
eye candy
(visually attractive person/thing)
Freddie Mac
(mortgage funder)
(the) full monty
(the whole thing)
gaydar
(ability to recognize that another person is gay)
home shopping
(phone or on-line purchase of goods displayed on TV or on
the Web)
hospitalist
(physician who specializes in treating hospitalized patients)
keypal
(e-mail pen pal)
magalogue
(catalog that resembles a magazine)
mouse potato
(person who spends much leisure time at a computer)
nutraceutical
(food that contains ingredients with purported health benefits)
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personal
shopper
(person whose job is to help customers select merchandise)
petabyte
(1024 or 1000 terabytes)
rage
(fit of violent anger, as in "air rage, mall rage")
SERM
(selective estrogen receptor modulator, type of drug)
sky surfing
(parachute jumping from plane with board attached to one's feet)
support
(assistance/service to customers, as on "tech support")
trance
(electronic disco music with hypnotic/spiritual quality)
wakeboarding
(riding on a wide board while being pulled by a speedboat)
way
(really, very, as in "way cool")
Webmaster
(person who designs/maintains a Web site)
wetware
(the human brain, esp. when thought of as functionally equivalent to computer
hardware/software)
XML
(eXtensible Markup Language, a simplified version of SGML)
yottabyte
(1000 zettabytes)
ZIP
(a format for compressing electronic files)
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