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verboten adj.

from verboten "forbidden": forbidden [< German verbieten "to forbid" < Middle High German verbieten < Old High German farbiotan]

• "Smoking around this gas is expressly verboten, as these girls learned to their dismay." Wendy Northcutt, The Darwin Awards II, 2001, p. 180.
• "What Charlie Chaplin did more than 60 years ago with 'The Great Dictator' and 'Hogan's Heroes' did with its POW antics in the 1960s--playing the Nazis for onscreen laughs--has always been verboten in Germany." Ed Meza, "'Goebbels' guffaws target Teuton taboo. (Der Furor)", Variety, Nov. 25, 2002. ("Der Furor" is a play on der Führer.)
• "News, after all, frequently covers violent, adult-oriented subjects, which puts many news stories into the same verboten range as porn." Joshua Quittner, "Unshackling Net Speech", Time, Jul. 7, 1997, p. 31.
• "The cache is important; it can store immense volumes of your surfing history including images, some of which may be verboten." Thomas C. Greene, "Data security for Linux power users", The Register, Jul. 11, 2002.
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Volkswagen, VW n.

"people's car": a German automobile manufacturer; an automobile made by this manufacturer [< German Volk "folk, people" < Middle High German volc "folk, people; troop of warriors" < Old High German folc "pile; folk, people; troop of warriors" + Wagen "automobile, car, wagon" < Middle High German wagen < Old High German wagan "that which moves, vehicle"]

• "Steve really was on a mission, and I hadn't gripped a car seat so tightly since being en route to the Slender-billed Curlew in Northumberland two years previously, when my driver had appeared hell-bent on breaking the sound barrier in a knackered Volkswagen Polo (to be fair though, on that occasion, it actually made all the difference)." James Hanlon, UK500: Birding in the Fast Lane, 2006, p. 63.
• "In response to the oil shocks of the 1970s, Japanese carmakers and Germany's Volkswagen introduced small, fuel-efficient cars that appealed to young buyers." Peter McWilliams, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country.
• "Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Volkswagen are at the forefront of ecological design in car production..." Deanna J. Richards, The Industrial Green Game: Implications for Environmental Design and Management, 1997, p. 213.
• "Having written 'Cadillac' and 'Volkswagen' in the neat block capitals that are actually taught in education courses, the teacher asks the student which of those brands they 'identify with' and to get up and move to the corresponding side of the room." Richard Mitchell, Less Than Words Can Say.
• "They were ordinarily transported in two vehicles, a Volkswagen Jetta and a minibus." Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges, Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, 1999.
• "You say to someone 'I saw a Volkswagen Beetle today with a vanity license plate that read FEATURE'. If he/she laughs, he/she is a geek." Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary.
• "So expect the already crowded radio spectrum that accommodates wireless communications to be jammed more tightly than a Volkswagen at a clown convention, as the air around us fills with data." Steven Levy, "The Next Big Thing", Time, Dec. 17, 2001, p. 62.
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Vorsprung durch Technik, Vorsprung durch..., Vorsprung n.

"advantage through technology": used by Audi in a 1986 advertising campaign in the UK, no doubt in order to emphasize German quality [< German Vorsprung "advantage, lead, leading edge, start, head start" + durch "through" + Technik "technology"]. This entry suggested by ngi99178. See also Fahrvergnügen.

• "Following directions conveyed by Ned Capel's solicitors they left the village and continued on into the dark, turning off at last up a steep drive which proved to be more like a cart-track, their rough passage shaking the Audi until its Vorsprung seemed to come unsprung." Jan Siegel, Prospero's Children, 2001, p. 19.
• "Vorsprung durch Anglistik", sidebar describing English loan words used in German car advertising, David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1995, p. 114.
• "Despite a unified Europe, political correctness, Vorsprung durch Technik and Jürgen Klinsmann, national prejudice remains a real issue and many people hold strong negative stereotypes about Germany." Norbert Pachler (editor), Teaching Modern Foreign Languages at Advanced Level, 1999, p. 295.
• "This latter development was, moreover, accompanied by advertising initiatives which, in Audi's case, made play with the phrase Vorsprung durch Technik (Progress through Technology) in a British campaign that was no less astute than Volkswagen's earlier American one (Bayley 1986: 93-100)." Nick Perry, Hyperreality and Global Culture, 1998, p. 54.
• "In the automotive industry German manufacturers such as Mercedes, BMW and Audi have successfully positioned their offerings at the high quality end of the spectrum through superior design, technical engineering skills ('Vorsprung durch Technic [sic]' – leading through technology) and attention to quality control through the manufacturing process." Colin Egan & Michael J. Thomas (editors), CIM Handbook of Strategic Marketing, 1998, p. 136.
• "Zooropa... Vorsprung durch Technik/Zooropa... Be all that you can be/Be a winner/Eat to get slimmer", U2, Zooropa, 1993.
• Vorsprung Dyk Technik, Paul Van Dyk, 2003.
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