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Mopery (/ ˈ m oʊ p ə r i /) [1] is a vague, informal name for minor offenses. The word is based on the verb to mope, which originally meant "to wander aimlessly"; it only later acquired the sense "to be bored and depressed".
Bed blocker: [7] A derogatory term used to describe older people taking up hospital beds in a healthcare system. Beldame: An outdated term referring to an old woman, especially an ugly one. Biddy: [8] An annoying, gossipy or interfering old lady. Blue-hair: [2] Derogatory term referring to older women who color their hair a distinctive silvery ...
Mission creep is the gradual or incremental expansion of an intervention, project or mission, beyond its original scope, focus or goals, a ratchet effect spawned by initial success. [1] Mission creep is usually considered undesirable due to how each success breeds more ambitious interventions until a final failure happens, stopping the ...
Read no further until you really want some clues or you've completely given up and want the answers ASAP. Get ready for all of the NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #182 on Sunday ...
Creepiness is the state of being creepy, or causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease to someone and/or something. [1] Certain traits or hobbies may make people seem creepy to others; interest in horror or the macabre might come across as 'creepy', and often people who are perverted or exhibit predatory behavior are called 'creeps'.
Aseismic creep, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault; Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope; Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems; Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container; see Superfluidity
Lifestyle creep, also known as lifestyle inflation, is a phenomenon that occurs when, as more resources are spent on standard of living, former luxuries become perceived necessities. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Feature creep may arise from the desire to provide the consumer with a more useful or desirable product in order to increase sales or distribution. Once a product does everything that it is designed to do, the manufacturer may add functions some users might consider unneeded (sometimes at the cost of efficiency) or continue with the original ...