Vocabulary

piercing through; penetrating; perforating

tiles in a player's hand

dora tile; special tile that increases the han value of a hand

winning hand

mountain top; summit

dead wall

thirteen orphans; winning hand containing one of each terminal and honor tile

wall tiles; wall

wall; wall tiles

calamansi (Citrus x microcarpa); calamondin; panama orange

submitting a haiku (for publication)

undergarment; underwear

lower garment (e.g. jeans, slacks, skirt)

top; upper garment

to serve; to dish up; to dish out

winning tile

LAMP; solution stack of free, open source software

discarding a tile that becomes another player's winning tile

seven pairs; winning hand composed of seven pairs

winning by picking up a discarded tile

forming a pung by picking up a tile discarded by another player

(pieces of metal, etc. hitting each other) noisily

secretive

extremely large portion

G-pen

to put on airs; to assume importance

augmented transition network; ATN

one-child policy (of the PRC)

discourse representation theory; DRT

liquefied natural gas; LNG

rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day)

affirmative

change of sides (e.g. in sport)

inbetweener (animation)

rigging (a ship, aircraft, etc.)

nominal; in name only; titular

key animator; lead animator

key animator; lead animator

retake

interview with leading player in a game (esp. baseball); player-of-the-game interview