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’s Building or Power Building/Tower of Power (740 Park Avenue)
The building at 740 Park Avenue (71 East 71st Street in Manhattan) has had many famous and wealthy residents. In 2010, New York magazine called the building one of the city's "Towers of…
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…
Milquetoast (after Caspar Milquetoast)
"Milk toast" has been cited in print since at least 1831. It is toasted bread in warm milk, often with butter and other ingredients added to the toast. "Caspar Milquetoast" is a…
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-Apple or Minneapple (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
"Minneapolis" actually means the "city of lakes" or "city of waters." However, it sounds like it means "mini-apples." After "the Big Apple" became…
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…
Mini-Madoff (Mini-Me + Bernard Madoff)
Bernard Madoff was arrested on December 11, 2008 and charged with running what some have called the largest Ponzi scheme in history (totaling $65 billion by some estimates). "Mini-Me" was…
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…
Minnesota Strip (Eighth Avenue, near Port Authority Bus Terminal)
In the 1960s and 1970s, the area of Eighth Avenue between the Port Authority Bus Terminal (42nd Street) and 59th Street became overrun with teenage prostitutes from the Midwest and was dubbed the…
Minsky Moment (Minsky Crisis)
The terms "Minsky moment" and "Minsky crisis" refer to the economist Hyman Philip Minsky (1919-1996), who studied financial crises. Minsky argued against large amounts of…
MINT (Mexico + Indonesia + Nigeria + Turkey)
The term "BRIC" nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) was coined in 2001 by economist Jim O'Neill. The Japanese company Panasonic came up with a new grouping of nations in 2010…
Mint Ratio
Entry in progress -- B.P. InvestorWords.commint ratioThe price of an ounce of gold divided by the price of an ounce of silver. InvestopediaWhat Does Mint Ratio Mean?1. The price of an ounce of gold…
Minute Steak
Entry in progress -- B.P. Practically EdibleMinute SteakMeal that would normally be quite chewy, such as that from the tougher area of the Sirloin or from the Eye of Round, is cut into small, very…
Miracle at the New Meadowlands (2010 Giants collapse)
The original "Miracle at the Meadowlands" (November 18. 1978) -- also called "The Fumble" -- featured a New York Giants fumble in the closing seconds that led to a Philadelphia…
Miracle on Madison Avenue
The annual "Miracle on Madison Avenue" street fair has helped charities (such as the Childrens Aid Society) since 1987. ...Children's Aid Society -- Miracle on MadisonShare in the…
Mirrortocracy (mirror + meritocracy)
A "mirrortocracy" (mirror + meritocracy) is an organization that is composed of people not necessarily on merit, but of people who "mirror" others already in the organization…
Mischief Night (October 30th)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Other Halloween-related nights include Cabbage Night, Chalk Night, Corn Night, Devil's Night, Doorbell Night, Gate Night, Goosey Night, Moving Night and Soap Night.…