rads

The fab thing about rads is that you have 2 choices: all the way on, or all the way off.

Hot Hot Heat Jes Battis 2007

IG - depending on the material, how hot your rads are and how long you leave it on there it can ignite.

Final Fantasy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

Then go to the park, and see what's a goin 'on there; whether those pretty critturs, the rads are a holdin' a prime minister 'parsonally responsible,' by shootin 'at him; or whether there is a levee, or the Queen is ridin' out, or what not; take a look at the world, make a visit or two to kill time, when all at once it's dark.

The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

Then go to the park, and see what's a goin 'on there; whether those pretty critturs, the rads are a holdin' a prime minister 'parsonally responsible,' by shootin 'at him; or whether there is a levee, or the Queen is ridin' out, or what not; take a look at the world, make a visit or two to kill time, when all at once it's dark.

The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

Followed by an argument about how many "rads" we had in the office.

Parliamentary Heating - Cover Up Kerron Cross 2007

Tooth-achingly good, Aunt Bill's candy was just the thing for a pre-adolescent sweet tooth-until, of course, I tasted chocolate "rads," the dark, crackly, bittersweet chocolate-on-chocolate cookies that would usher me into puberty.

Orangette 2010

Adding to the confusion, some scientists, especially in the U.S., use the older terms curies, rads and rems to describe radiation.

Radiation Math: How Do We Count the Rays? Carl Bialik 2011

He was merely playing to his audience, talking privately -- or so he thought -- to a cackle of rads, well-heeled San Francisco Democrats who are as disdainful of ordinary Americans as he is.

On the Offensive James Taranto 2010

Back then, doctors tended to overshoot doses and the methotrexate and all the rads turned mom into a bitch.

Gemma's Story Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

He patronized rads like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin while moving his enterprise to the center, creating a huge fan base without the aid of Twitter or Facebook that helped open the market space for MTV and later, digital music and movies.

Eric Ehrmann: Last Tango in Davos ... Globalism and Social Media Hook Up 2010