Over the years I’ve created a collection of new terms for old things—things that are common to traveling and living overseas but that haven’t had common labels. Most of them have come to me while I’m in the air, looking out the window or thumbing through an inflight magazine.

• bait and glitch
• direct flight to the dog house
• metapacking
• eurekathing
• tetrisness
• TSAT
• fortnightlies
• vontrappish
• flotsam and jetsam and thensam
• disafearance
• duffling
• terminal fowliage
• flaggle
• making a this-line’s-not-for-you-turn
• glizing
• preseating
• passenger of imminent domain
• single-entré seating
• seatemic (pronounced see-uh-tehm-ic)
• post-ping che-klatches
• visatrig