micturator

someone who pees, cf. The Guardian, Thursday, August 6, 2009

Sarah Barracuda

what OP-ED columnist Gail Collins called Sarah Palin in The New York Times

RINO

“derogatory acronym conservatives impose on moderate ‘Republicans in name only’”, cf. The Washington Post

ladette thugs

(young) female criminals, cf. The Daily Mail

carpocalypse

a term for the present crisis of the American automobile industry, coined by the website jalopnik.com

found in: The New York Times

boomburb

a booming suburb
found in: The Economist, Dec. 4, 2008

Twitterati

people who “twitter“, i.e. – according to Kathleen Parker in The Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2008, “express an abbreviated thought or observation in real time [via short text messages on a cell phone or similar device] to a live, self-selecting audience of brain voyeurs. People who who want to know your every cogitation and sign up for the privilege.“

glocal news

outsourcing Pasadena coverage to India at Pasadena Now

seen in: The New York Times, Sunday, November 30, 2008

gestational surrogacy

hiring one woman to bear another woman’s child [aka surrogate motherhood]

seen in: The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, November 30, 2008

Barack Whisperer

nickname given to Barack Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs

found in: The Washington Post