Today’s Wordbird: ELEVEXER

ELEVEXER (N.) ‘el-uh-vex-ur One who holds up the progress of an elevator by opening the closing doors at the last minute (whether by pushing a button or by jamming an arm in the door) to squeeze in. Usage: Karen was about to lose her mind. Not one, not two, but three elevexers held up the journey to the 18th floor, squeaking in with guilty smiles and false apologies as the doors were trying to close. What was their problem? There were three other elevators, couldn’t they have taken one of them?

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Liesl Schillinger is a New York-based writer and translator, whose criticism, essay, features and other work have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Gourmet Live, The New Yorker, New Yor ...read more