Word Blender

Hey, guys! Do you want to feel yourself up-to-date? Looking for a vivid modern language? Then try to mix with us and find out new and insanely interesting words or phrases. This every-week post will help you to enrich your vocabulary with new and recently coined words.


This week's blend words start with "L"


 


Laptop zombie –
at a coffee shop or similar establishment that offers free wireless Internet, a person who is oblivious to everyone and everything except the screen in front of them.

"When you're out with friends, we should be with friends."...But that's not quite how it often goes down these days — laptop zombies lurking in Starbucks, dates dumped (for 10 full minutes at a time) to answer texts
—Rick Nichols,The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 26, 2010



Last name effect – the closer a person's childhood surname is to the end of the alphabet, the faster that person tends to make purchase decisions.


The last-name effect is a continuum, researchers found. So a Rodriguez will buy quicker than a Garcia. Those with last names in the middle of the alphabet make purchases with middling speed.
—Gregory Karp,Chicago Tribune, February 18, 2011

Lion food -
anyone in middle management or a similar administrative position.

Lion Food: tech-term for middle managers.
—Keith Ferrell, Chief Executive, January 1, 1999


Leaf peeper –
a person who, at the appropriate time during autumn, seeks out an area where many or most of the tree leaves have turned color.

The quest is for the perfect moment — the exact time and location when a leaf peeper will encounter the height of foliage color and experience foliage ecstasy.—Mike Keida, The Post-—Penelope Green,The New York Times, October 11, 2002





 
 
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