Word: downmarket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HARD-PRESSED The world is rich with wine snobs, but there is a niche of connoisseurship still underpopulated: the anti-snob. The industry is now catering to the downmarket drinker. Need to know about price or what to drink with steak or fish? No need to consult a guide; just look at the label. And you won't strain your budget. All these wines are under...
...Lately Jackson chooses to speak in a rude staccato with the consonants rubbed off, sometimes a little hard to understand ("Stay out duh Bushes! Stay out duh Bushes!" he hilariously warned the Democratic convention) - an emphasis that he adopts for the sake of a downmarket authenticity that he calculates will give him most leverage in his dealings with white political power...
...Street's top money managers. A few years ago, Warren Buffett created a lower-priced Berkshire Hathaway stock, dubbed "Baby Berkshires," to satisfy retail demand. Now the venerable pension-fund manager Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), also known as the Teachers, has gone downmarket...
...prison for 20 years if she is found guilty of what the lawyers call "malicious wounding." Then there is John Wayne Bobbitt, who, although acquitted of marital sexual assault last week, may never, as they say, be whole again. Despite the bloodletting, the Bobbitts are less Greek tragedy than downmarket War of the Roses. The onetime bouncer and the struggling beautician had been trapped with each other under the same roof and over the same barrel -- until last June...
...downmarket as Le Pli is upmarket, Central Square's YMCA charges just a little more for a year membership than Le Pli charges for a month. At the YMCA, $150 dollars buys the use of two pools, two tracks, two gymnasiums, and a weight room six days a week, all year...