Jon Davis's definitions

Sixteenth Amendment

The sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

by Jon Davis January 13, 2004

USC

United States Code

The laws of the federal government established by Congress.

26 USC is the federal income tax code, or the Internal Revenue Code (IRC)

by Jon Davis January 14, 2004

tree hugger

A slightly derogatory term describing an employee of a company who stays in the same position for many, many years. This term is usually used in industries such as software engineering where the dynamics of the profession are always changing and it is not unusual for other people in the same field to change jobs every few years. This term was often used in the Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble (late 1990s).

The opposite of a job hopper is a tree hugger.

by Jon Davis January 1, 2009

court

1. The act of dating a person with the intent to marry.

2. A game where a black robe and some people in suits and ties dance around and pretend to establish justice on behalf of a terrorized victim of society.

1. I courted her for a while but realized that she wasn't The One.

2. The innocent man went to court and was thrown in prison for five years.

by Jon Davis January 14, 2004