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New half (ニューハーフ)
New half (ニューハーフ) is wasei-eigo for men who live or present as women, especially in Japanese entertainment, show pubs, and the adult industry. Coined around 1980-81 via Betty and Matsubara Rumiko; Japan-specific, not an international term.
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve (December 31, Gregorian calendar; Chinese equivalent Chuxi 除夕) is the last evening of the year, marked by midnight countdowns, foods like twelve grapes in Spain, fireworks, the Times Square ball drop since 1907, and sequenced across world time zones.
New Zealand cuisine
New Zealand cuisine: the food culture of Aotearoa, blending Māori kai (hāngī, kūmara, boil-up), British settler fare ('meat and three veg', Sunday roast, pavlova) and post-1960s Asian and Mediterranean influences; today a cosmopolitan restaurant scene with 110 inaugural 2026 Michelin Guide listings and a $65.2b food export sector.
Newcastle Brown Ale
Newcastle Brown Ale, nicknamed the Dog or Newkie Brown, is an English brown ale first brewed in 1927 by Colonel Jim Porter in Newcastle upon Tyne, 4.7% ABV, blue star logo, now brewed by Heineken in Tadcaster with a separate Lagunitas US version.
Newman's Own
Newman's Own is an American food company founded in 1982 by Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner that donates 100% of profits to charity, over $600 million to date, and has been solely owned by Newman's Own Foundation since 2008.
Newsboy cap
The newsboy cap, also called the Gatsby cap or baker boy hat, is a soft, round, paneled cap historically worn by working-class men and newsboys.
Newton Food Centre (纽顿熟食中心)
Newton Food Centre (纽顿熟食中心) is an NEA-managed hawker centre at 500 Clemenceau Avenue North, Singapore. Opened 1971 as the first hawker centre without a wet market and the first with a garden setting; rebuilt 2006; known for BBQ seafood, satay, and its Crazy Rich Asians cameo.
Newtons (cookie)
Newtons, formerly Fig Newtons, are Nabisco's soft fig-filled cookie bars, created in 1891 at the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, using Henry Mitchell's dual-funnel machine and named after the town of Newton, Massachusetts.
Ngoma poetry
Ngoma poetry is sung poetry performed within ngoma, the Bantu performance event combining drumming, song, and dance; scholars see ngoma as the context for adult Swahili nyimbo.
Nguyên tiêu
Nguyên tiêu, or Tết Nguyên Tiêu, is the Vietnamese festival of the first full moon of the lunar new year, held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Nick DiGiovanni
Nick DiGiovanni, American chef and food content creator, youngest-ever MasterChef finalist (season 10, third place), Harvard '19 Food & Climate, author of Knife Drop, Osmo founder, 11 world records.
Nick Jones (entrepreneur)
Nick Jones is the British entrepreneur who founded Soho House in 1995 above his Cafe Boheme restaurant on London's Greek Street, led it as CEO until November 2022, and returned with the St Clement hotel in 2026.
Nickel (United States coin)
The nickel is the United States five-cent coin, an alloy of 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel produced by the United States Mint for circulation since 1866.
Nicky Hilton
Nicky Hilton (Nicholai Olivia Hilton Rothschild), American designer and socialite, younger sister of Paris Hilton, great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton; founded Chick and Nicholai lines, wrote 365 Style, and married James Rothschild in 2015.
Nicola McLean
Nicola McLean (born 1981, London) is an English glamour model and TV personality, a Page 3 model for The Sun and Daily Star, known for I'm a Celebrity 2008 and Celebrity Big Brother 2012 and 2017.
Nicolas Ghesquière
Nicolas Ghesquière (born 1971) is a French fashion designer, artistic director of women's collections at Louis Vuitton since November 2013 and previously creative director of Balenciaga 1997–2012, known for reviving Balenciaga and for the Petite Malle and Lariat bags.
Nicole Faria
Nicole Faria (born 1990, Bangalore) is an Indian model and actress, first and only Miss Earth from India (Miss Earth 2010, Nha Trang, Vietnam); Femina Miss India Earth 2010; founder of the NGO Care for Me.
Nicole Johnson (Miss California USA)
Nicole Michele Johnson, Miss California USA 2010 and Miss USA 2010 Top 10 semi-finalist from Westlake Village; wife of Michael Phelps since 2016, mother of four, president of the Michael Phelps Foundation; distinct from Miss America 1999 Nicole Johnson.
Nicole Trunfio
Nicole Trunfio (born 1985, Merredin, Western Australia) is an Australian model and entrepreneur, winner of Search for a Supermodel, Gucci and Chanel runway model, Elle Australia breastfeeding cover subject, and founder of Bumpsuit, ERTH Jewelry, and Erth Swim.
Nicotine pouch
Nicotine pouch (oral nicotine pouch): tobacco-free fiber pouch of nicotine powder or salts, flavorings, and cellulose, placed between gum and lip. Entered US market 2016; first FDA authorization (ZYN) January 2025; not FDA-approved for cessation.
Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater, English food writer and broadcaster ('a cook who writes'), has written The Observer's weekly food column since 26 September 1993, authored about 25 books including Real Fast Food, Appetite, and The Kitchen Diaries, and wrote the memoir Toast.
Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson (born 1960), English food writer and TV cook, author of How to Eat and How to Be a Domestic Goddess, over 8 million books sold, judge on The Great British Bake Off from 2026 replacing Prue Leith.
Nigerian cuisine
Nigerian cuisine: cooking of Nigeria's ~250 ethnic groups, based on yam, cassava, rice and maize with spiced soups, swallows, jollof rice, and suya; regional, historically layered, not yet UNESCO-inscribed.
Nightlife
Nightlife is urban after-dark social and commercial activity in bars, clubs, music venues, and restaurants. Also called the night-time economy, it grew with gas lighting, became a regeneration policy, and now faces post-COVID contraction.
Nigo
Nigo (ニゴー), born Tomoaki Nagao in 1970, is the Japanese designer behind A Bathing Ape, Billionaire Boys Club, and Human Made, and since 2021 the artistic director of LVMH's Kenzo. Also a DJ and producer, he released I Know Nigo! in 2022 and received a Design Museum retrospective in 2026.
Nihari (نہاری)
Nihari (نہاری), a slow-cooked stew of beef or lamb shank and bone marrow from late-18th-century Old Delhi's Mughal kitchens, is now a signature breakfast dish of Pakistan and northern India, thickened with wheat flour and garnished with ginger, chilies and lime.
Nike Air Max
Nike Air Max is Nike's line of shoes with visible pressurized Air cushioning, beginning with the Tinker Hatfield-designed Air Max 1 released March 26, 1987, inspired by the Centre Pompidou and followed by numbered models from the Air Max 90 to the Dn8.
Nike Air Yeezy
Nike Air Yeezy: Kanye West's two-model Nike signature sneaker line, Air Yeezy 1 (2009, $215) and Air Yeezy 2 (2012, $245), debuted at the 2008 Grammys; ended when West moved to Adidas in 2013.
Nike Cortez
Nike Cortez: low-profile running shoe designed by Bill Bowerman, first sold as the Onitsuka Tiger Cortez in 1967 and as the Nike Cortez in 1972; known for its cushioned midsole patent, Los Angeles Chicano cultural ties, and current lifestyle-sneaker status.
Nike Mag
Nike Mag (Nike Air Mag): limited-edition sneaker recreating Marty McFly's power-lacing shoe from Back to the Future Part II (1989); charity releases of 1,500 pairs in 2011 and 89 self-lacing pairs in 2016 for Parkinson's research.