Used to ask whether a seat near the interlocutor is currently occupied (by someone temporarily absent).

someone from Wake Island.

A small uninhabited island in New York Harbor, the location of the Statue of Liberty.

Alternative form of what's what

Misspelling of Isle of Wight.

The British Isles; used especially to avoid associations with British nationality or citizenship.

A 27.5-acre island in the states of New Jersey and New York where millions of immigrants and others were processed, up until the 1950s.

(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, derogatory) An individual with pretensions of great importance.

A collection of a building’s structural elements resting on its foundation to provide partial separation of the building from shaking ground thus upgrading the building's seismic fitness. For video demonstration, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/vshustov#p/f/11/ZqlXp3czrrM

A group of Greek islands located in the Saronic Gulf in the south-east Ionian Sea at the opening to the Aegean Sea.