Jargon Watch

Ass-vertising Advertising on bikini underwear. Worn and flashed by female models on the street, the butt-borne billboards are designed to attract young male consumers. No doubt they do. Agit-Doc One-sided documentaries – like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Outfoxed – that favor an agenda over journalistic objectivity. Joe Jihadi US military shorthand for a Muslim terrorist or […]

Ass-vertising
Advertising on bikini underwear. Worn and flashed by female models on the street, the butt-borne billboards are designed to attract young male consumers. No doubt they do.

Agit-Doc
One-sided documentaries - like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Outfoxed - that favor an agenda over journalistic objectivity.

Joe Jihadi
US military shorthand for a Muslim terrorist or insurgent. As Marine Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne told CBS News during a battle: "The prospect of some city father walking in and making Joe Jihadi give himself up are pretty slim."

Inverse Graffiti
The use of stencils and cleaning solvent to "tag" a really dirty wall.

- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)

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