Buildings/Housing/Parks

Milkaholic

A "milkaholic" (milk + -aholic, related to "alcoholic") is a person who is addicted to drinking milk. "Our daughter, age two, is a 'milkaholic'" was cited in…

Millinery District

Manhattan's "Millininery District" is roughly an older term for what would be called the "Garment District" or "Garment Center," between Fifth and Seventh Avenues…

Million Dollar Movie

Remember WOR Channel 9's "Million Dollar Movie"? Remember the theme music, from Gone With the Wind? Before Turner Classic Movies and Blockbuster, there was "Million Dollar…

Million Dollar Rain

A "million dollar rain" is a rain that helps crops (and makes farmers rich, although not necessarily by a million dollars). This rain occurs in late spring or in the summer, when the…

Millionaire Pie (Furr’s cafeterias)

"Millionaire Pie" is a speciality is Furr's cafeterias, a chain that began in New Mexico but has many Texas locations. It's often called "Pineapple Millionaire Pie"…

Millionaires’ Row (Fifth Avenue)

Fifth Avenue was called "Millionaires' Row" by around the year 1900 because many rich people lived there. Nowadays, however, the average price of a home in Manhattan is a million…

Millrose Games & Wanamaker Mile

The Millrose Games is Madison Square Garden's longest-running sporting event, since 1908. The Millrose features the Wanamaker Mile, named after department store merchant Rodman Wanamaker.…

MiMA (Middle of Manhattan)

MiMA (450 West 42nd Street in Manhattan) is a residential building from The Related Companies, trademarked from November 3, 2010. "MiMA" means "middle of Manhattan" and has been…

Minerality

"Minerality" is defined by the Wikipedia ("Wine tasting descriptors") as "A sense of mineral-ness in the wine, flavors of slate, schist, silex, etc." The Oxford…

Mini-camp (Minicamp)

Professional football teams hold a "mini-camp" (or "minicamp") during the offseason. Most mini-camps are regularly scheduled for rookies and last a weekend (three days). The…

Minilivestock

"Livestock" means farm animals that are domesticated; "minilivestock" (or "mini-livestock") has developed to mean domesticated bugs for edible consumption.…

Mink Brigade

The "mink brigade" is the name for the wealthy women (the type of women who could afford to wear minks) who supported the strikers at the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909. American…