cookbook

From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).

A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.

The Anarchist's Cookbook is a great read, officially recommended by Wikimedia.


brain drain

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Coined by spokesmen for the Royal Society of London in the early 1950s to describe the outflow of scientists and technologists to the United States and Canada.

(medicine, informal) A Jackson-Pratt drain.


redhead

Aythya americana
Aythya americana#Translingual

A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.


trout pout

Chosen for the rhyme and suggesting the grimace of a fish's mouth.

(slang, UK) The exaggerated, grotesque result of injection of excessive quantities of collagen into the lips in order to make them appear fuller.


splat mat

Our splat mat has saved our rug from our baby's messes again and again.

A waterproof and easily washable sheet used to collect food dropped by a small child while eating, or otherwise to protect easily soiled surfaces.


omnium-gatherum

en-noun

omnium-gatherum (plural omnium-gatherums or omnium-gathera)

omnium-gatherums (plural)
omnium-gathera (plural)

/ˌɒm.nɪəmˈɡæ.ðə.ɹəm/

Dog Latin, from Latin omnium (“of all”) and gather + -um, suggesting a collection of everything.

We live in the era of Omnium-Gatherum; all the world's a museum, and men and women are its students. To design any building in England nowadays is therefore to work under the eye, so to speak, of the Society of Antiquaries.

1864, Robert Kerr, The Gentleman's House, page 342:

A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.


hodgepodge

hodgepodge (countable and uncountable, plural hodgepodges)

/ˈhɒd͡ʒˌpɒd͡ʒ/

/ˈhɑd͡ʒˌpɑd͡ʒ/

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From Middle English hochepoche, a variation of hochepot, from Old French hochepot, from Middle Dutch hutspot (“beef or mutton cut into small pieces and mixed and boiled together in a pot”), from hotsen, hutsen (“to shake; jog; jolt”) + pot (“pot”), equivalent to hotch + pot. Compare German Low German Hüttspott (“hodgepodge”).

cog

His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together.

1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
Man's life is but vain, for 'tis subject to pain, / And sorrow, and short as a bubble; / 'Tis a hodge-podge of business, and money, and care, / And care, and money, and trouble.

mengelmoes

collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble

A confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot.


hodgepodge

en-verb

hodgepodge (third-person singular simple present hodgepodges, present participle hodgepodging, simple past and past participle hodgepodged)

hodgepodges (present singular third-person)
hodgepodging (participle present)
hodgepodged (participle past)
hodgepodged (past)

/ˈhɒd͡ʒˌpɒd͡ʒ/

/ˈhɑd͡ʒˌpɑd͡ʒ/

(transitive, intransitive) To move or position in an erratic, disorganised manner.


jet set

jet set (third-person singular simple present jet sets, present participle jet setting, simple past and past participle jet setted)

jet sets (present singular third-person)
jet setting (participle present)
jet setted (participle past)
jet setted (past)

(intransitive) To follow the lifestyle of the jet set.


fender-bender

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My insurance went up even though all my accidents were just fender-benders.

(chiefly US, slang) A minor accident involving at least one motor vehicle.


chill pill

Take a chill pill, and calm down.

(informal) An imaginary medicine taken when excessively anxious or upset about a trivial matter.


boob tube

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* (television): An allusion to the idiocy of television programming and the supposed audience for such (boobs) and that the televisions of that era used cathode ray tube (CRT) vacuum tube displays. First use appears c. 1959, in the The Herald Journal.
* (clothing): Due to the clothing resembling a tube-like garment that covers the breasts (boobs) of a woman. First use appears c. 1977, in the Daily Mail.

(US, informal, dated, derogatory) A television.

At the same time, Tara puts her arms into her boob tube.

2015, Oscar Phoenix, This Hostage to Fortune:

(British, informal) A type of woman's upper body garment consisting of a taut band of cloth around the breasts and back.


snail mail

A retronym emphasizing postal mail's slowness compared to email.

I came home to a mailbox stuffed with snail mail.

To send a letter by snail mail (the Postal Service), you must still compose it, and also print it out, unless you write it by hand or on a typewriter.

1993 November 9, L. R. Shannon, “Peripherals: MCI Mail Changes The Nature Of Letters”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-04-03:

en:physical material conveyed by the postal service

(retronym) Mail (physical material) sent in the post, especially as compared with email.


roly-poly

en-noun

roly-poly (countable and uncountable, plural roly-polys or roly-polies)

roly-polys (plural)
roly-polies (plural)

/ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/

The noun is apparently derived from roll (“to turn over and over”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. Compare rolly (“having the ability to roll, rolling”, adjective), which is attested since the 19th century.
Sense 1.7 (“mischievous or worthless person”) is possibly influenced by poll (“head; (archaic) scalp; (by extension) person”).
The adjective and adverb are attested later than the noun, and so are probably derived from it.

rolly-pooly

game in which balls are rolled or bowled into holes

A roly-poly had found his way inside the house; I reasoned that the tiny varmint had crawled up the steps. […] The creatures are no more than an inch long, and when you touch them they roll themselves into a tight gray ball.

1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 25, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 251:

Terrestrial isopods, commonly known as pill bugs, sow bugs, or roly-polys, are generally familiar to most of us.

1995, Henry W. Robison, Robert T. Allen, “Subphylum Crustacea: Crustaceans”, in Only in Arkansas: A Study of the Endemic Plants and Animals of the State, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, page 45:

From the window, she sees them discover a colony of roly-polies (tiny gray bugs that roll into miniature balls in the presence of danger). She delights in the wonder and fun of the children as they play gently with the tiny bugs.

1997, Clark M. Williamson, Ronald J[ames] Allen, “Worship as the Power of God”, in Adventures of the Spirit: A Guide to Worship from the Perspective of Process Theology, Lanham, Md., Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 76:

[Romy Tinkle] What is that thing, Quincy?! / [Quincy Tinkle] Um … It's a giant Rolly Polly (Pill Bug). It's been living entirely on my body-building protein powder, apparently!!

2002 May 26, J[effrey] J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures (webcomic), archived from the original on 2009-12-13:

(Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).


fag hag

From fag + hag. First use appears c. 1965 in the publication The Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms.

Susan "Suki" Eagan, manager of the Boston bar Chaps, describes her own personal odyssey as "local debutante to fag hag to fag bar owner."

1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 8:

Becoming a glam fag hag was not about money or privilege. Au contraire. Any working-class girl was eligible. All she had to do was get a job in a fag-rich environment, be it a hair salon or a department store.

2012, Simon Doonan, Gay Men Don't Get Fat, Penguin, →ISBN:

(sometimes derogatory, slang, LGBTQ, vulgar) A woman who enjoys the company of gay men.


chick flick

From chick (“young woman”) + flick (“movie”), chosen for the rhyme.

Films like Russ Meyers’ ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ (1970) and ‘Twilight People’ (1972) […] Corman’s ‘Black Mama, White Mama’ (1972), another chick-flick set in a slammer in the Philippines.

(dated, slang) A sexually exploitative or pornographic film depicting women, intended for straight men.


cheat sheet

Coordinate term: cheater

If you have trouble remembering all the trigonometric identities, the book has a cheat sheet in back that lists them.

en:small document to aid test-taking, especially when clandestine

A sheet of paper (or a digital analogue thereof) containing notes used to assist (with or without permission) on a test; especially, such a sheet used secretly and improperly.


deadhead

From dead + head. Some senses are derived from theater jargon (originally spelled dead head) for audience members admitted without paying, which probably arose in analogy to dead weight or deadwood in reference to their lack of contribution to revenue or in reference to their unenthusiastic (dead) response to performances. Perhaps even from Latin caput mortuum, alchemy term for distillation residue. As Paul Quinion writes: Similarly, the term was applied to a dull or lazy person, one who contributes nothing to an enterprise, only in the early years of the twentieth century, well after the theatrical and transport senses had become well established.

A train or truck moved between cities with no passengers or freight, in order to make it available for service.


sneak peek

Visit the website for a sneak peek of their new movie.

(informal) A preview, especially of something not yet public.


Aga saga

Rhyming phrase, named for the AGA cooker, a type of stored-heat oven popular in British country houses in the early 20th century. Coined in 1992 by novelist Terence Blacker in reference to the work of Joanna Trollope.

2007, Saying that, if Judy does retire and write a rollicking Aga-saga about, say, a middle-aged woman with a loving, ambitious yet utterly frustrating husband, I'd certainly buy it in the three-for-two. — Grace Dent, The Guardian, 22 Jun 2007, G2, p. 3

(British, sometimes derogatory) A kind of popular novel set in a suburban or rural location and featuring domestic and emotional themes involving middle-class characters.


cockblock

en-verb

cockblock (third-person singular simple present cockblocks, present participle cockblocking, simple past and past participle cockblocked)

cockblocks (present singular third-person)
cockblocking (participle present)
cockblocked (participle past)
cockblocked (past)

From rhyming compound of cock + block; likely a back-formation from cockblocker. First use appears c. 1972. See cite below.

(by extension) To prevent someone from achieving a goal, aggressively getting in the way (e.g., an intentionally difficult level of a video game).


chop shop

Apparently his stolen car had been taken to a chop shop, as the police only recovered the frame.

Once the car is in a chop shop, a skilled cutter can reduce it to salable parts in half an hour to 45 minutes.

1979, “The Car-Theft Boom”, in Newsweek, page 100:

New York City sports a number of chop shops, as do Chicago, Detroit and most other large metropolitan areas.[…]If they can′t find the right engine, the junkyard may call a chop shop contact to get someone on the street looking for the right make and year.

1987 August 9, Ed Heney, “Outsmart the Car Thieves”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, page 32:

“A chop shop disassembles the entire car, so they need a location that is secluded, like a warehouse or a vacant factory — although today′s forfeiture laws tend to discourage chop shops.”

2009, Taylor Joseph, Allison Investigates, Four Star Publishing, page 94:

(US) A facility where stolen motor vehicles are disassembled in order to sell their mechanical parts.


gang bang

(US, slang) Protecting gang turf, especially when dealing drugs or other black market objects.


potshot

A shot taken at an easy or random target.

He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation

2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 2018-07-29:

Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.


potshot

potshot (third-person singular simple present potshots, present participle potshotting, simple past and past participle potshotted)

potshots (present singular third-person)
potshotting (participle present)
potshotted (participle past)
potshotted (past)


pooper scooper

A scoop for the collection of pet excrement, especially that of dogs.


rail hail

(slang) Hail accelerated to high speeds by heavy winds.


fag stag

(slang, vulgar) A heterosexual man who socializes with or enjoys the company of homosexual men.


house mouse

The universally common mouse of the species Mus musculus.


gender bender

(idiomatic, colloquial) A person who dresses in the clothes of another sex, or in clothes which make their gender identity ambiguous.

(by extension) An event where people are encouraged to dress in the clothes of another sex, even if they would normally not.

(fantasy) A person capable of changing their physical sex.

(fantasy) An instance of someone's physical sex being changed, usually via magic.


shock jock

“To slam a movie about hate radio for fostering hate is like saying that a movie about the Ku Klux Klan will foster the Klan,” he says, adding that the death threats against Barry Champlain, “Talk Radio’s” shock jock, are not the imaginings of a feverish, Hollywood-inspired imagination.

1989 January 6, Robert Koehler, “The Word on 'Talk Radio' : Eric Bogosian Finds Story in the 'Fringe Element' of the Media”, in Los Angeles Times:

“We always had shock jocks,” said Michael Harrison, publisher of the talk-radio trade magazine Talkers. “But then we had a shock president.”

2021 February 10, Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson, Keith Collins, quoting Michael Harrison, “How Right-Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before the Capitol Siege”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Appearing frequently on Japanese online shows in T-shirts, hoodies or casual jackets, and wearing signature eyeglasses with one round and one square lens, Dr. Narita leans into his Ivy League pedigree as he fosters a nerdy shock jock impression.

2023 February 12, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, “A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(slang) A deliberately offensive or provocative talk show host.


goat boat

goat boat (third-person singular simple present goat boats, present participle goat boating, simple past and past participle goat boated)

goat boats (present singular third-person)
goat boating (participle present)
goat boated (participle past)
goat boated (past)

Do us surfers a favour please and goat boat at Nobblers or Sumpters - please. — BBC Cable Bay message forum https://web.archive.org/web/20040207131935/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/surfing/pages/cablebay.shtml

(surfing, mildly derogatory) to ride a wave ski.


pot shot

1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926.

A haphazard shot with a firearm, taken with careless aim, often fired at a random target.


ash cash

Chosen for the rhyme, in reference to the ashes of a cremated body.

(slang) The fees claimed by a medical practitioner for completing forms required for cremation of a body.


sump pump

A pump used for the removal of liquid from a sump or sump pit.


tucker fucker

en-noun

tucker fucker (countable and uncountable, plural tucker fuckers)

From tucker (“food”) + fucker (“one who ruins”).

(uncountable, Australia, slang) Tomato sauce.


hot-pot

hot-pot (countable and uncountable, plural hot-pots)


hotpot

hotpot (countable and uncountable, plural hotpots)

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hot pot

hot pot (usually uncountable, plural hot pots)

Surface analysis hot + pot. For sense of stewed meat and potatoes, compare French pot-au-feu. For the sense of a communal meal cooked at the table, Calque of Chinese 火鍋 /火锅.


lit crit

literary criticism
literary criticism#English

(informal) Clipping of literary criticism.


lovey-dovey

en-adj

lovey-dovey (comparative more lovey-dovey, superlative most lovey-dovey)

more lovey-dovey (comparative)
most lovey-dovey (superlative)

And then when she'd put me right off, and I didn't want her, she'd come all lovey-dovey, and get me. And I always went.

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 2020-11-11:

This ain't no fooling around / No time for dancing, or lovey dovey / I ain't got time for that now

1979, “Life During Wartime”, in Fear of Music, performed by Talking Heads:

(informal) Affectionate in a rather mushy or oversentimental fashion.


analysis paralysis

The condition of being unable to make a decision due to the availability of too much information which must be processed in order for the decision to be made.


space race

The competition between nations in the field of space exploration.

宇宙開発競争

うちゅうかいはつきょうそう


trailer sailer

A sailboat designed to be carried on a towed trailer.


cop shop

From cop (“police officer”) + shop (“workplace”).

1977-1984, Cop Shop (title of an Australian television series).

Billy Suggs spotted Sam standing outside the cop shop when he still was two blocks away.

“Could you go up the cop shop and bring Paul home again” said Heather.

2007, Rachel Bramble, Stephanie Clover, page 47:

He then drove up to the township and dragged me inside the cop shop.

2011, Robert Watkins, A Face in the Crowd, page 40:

(UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, slang) A police station.


sin bin

From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.

1972 September, What′s New: Rolling pad, Popular Science, page 70,
There′s a shag rug on the floor, padding on walls and ceiling, and, for extra comfort, a 600-gallon water bed. The Sin Bin is made by Chinook Mobilodge.

1978 March, Jim Elder, Camp/work conversion, Popular Mechanics, page 110,
There is the shag-carpet “sin bin” with its fur upholstery, mahogany paneling, stained glass, color TV and chrome sidepipes.

1986 January, A Family Affair, Popular Mechanics, page 86,
Unlike the full-size Sin Bins of the ′70s, the new family vans are cute, comfortable and carlike.

(US, Australia, colloquial) Synonym of fuck truck: A panel van with a mattress in the back.


vomit comet

From vomit + comet, from its potential to cause nausea.

(slang) A reduced-gravity aircraft, an airplane that briefly provides a nearly weightless environment by flying on a parabolic flight path; used to train astronauts or conduct research.


Packer whacker

The name came about when Kerry Packer, a wealthy Australian media mogul, was resuscitated with a defibrillator in 1990 in Sydney after suffering a heart attack.
After recovering, Packer donated a large sum to the New South Wales Ambulance Service in order to fit all of its ambulances with portable defibrillators.

2006, Taking heart, The Bulletin, Issues 6502-6509, page not known,
Every NSW ambulance now carries the ultimate heart-starter, the Packer Whacker, thanks to a polo field drama and one man′s generosity.

It was no wonder the shipping insustry in Australia was flatlining under the Labor Party. You could not resuscitate the Australian shipping industry with a Packer whacker under Labor.

2006, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives, volume 279, page 131:

2009, Paul Barry, Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?: The James Packer Story, Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition, page 285,
On this occasion, however, it was not his portable ‘Packer whacker’, but a device the size of a matchbox implanted in his chest.

(Australia, colloquial, informal) A portable defibrillator.


rugger bugger

(UK, South Africa, Australia, derogatory) Someone who is fanatical about sports, especially rugby union, and who can be loud and unpleasant to other people.


bedhead

en-noun

bedhead (countable and uncountable, plural bedheads)

From bed + head. Superficially similar to, but etymologically distinguishable from, forms built from -head.

Hand was looking flustered with me, though he was still only half-awake and his bedhead was ridiculous […]

2002, Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Vintage Canada, published 2011:

She always came to the office late because she was an INSOMNIAC, lewd grin, bedhead, and miniskirt, the CEO laughing his head off down the hallway, old word style, but new to have this dirty kind of hilarious brunette.

2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

(colloquial) The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.


bedhead

From Middle English bed-head, bedhede (also as beddeshed, beddes hede, beddes heed), equivalent to bed + head.

Holonyms: bedstead; bedframe (sometimes comeronymous)

[…] upon this he went up stairs in his shirt, and found the boy hanging in his belt to the staple within the bed-head, and no higher than would admit him to be on his knees, having only his shirt on.

1772, anonymous author, A True and Genuine Account of the Life, Trial, and Execution of James Bolland, London: self-published, page 2:

Feeling slightly ashamed of himself, he sat up against the bedhead.

1949, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four:

There was a big black wrought-iron double bed, with a mosaic in the centre of the bedhead.

1977, Edna O'Brien, Johnny I Hardly Knew You, Penguin, published 1984, page 82:

A few miles from Skara Brae, you can see hearths, bedheads, and milk crate-style shelving in a cluster of stone houses that are joined by an internal corridor, like those of an apartment block. The houses are five thousand years old, older than the Egyptian pyramids.

2014, Christine Kenneally, chapter 8, in The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures, New York: Viking:

(British) A vertical panel or board at the end of a bed where the pillow is placed.

Miss Macspleuchan, with a faint shriek, rang the bell at the bed-head violently; but before she or any one else could reach her, Lady Cecilia had fallen heavily on the floor, where she lay unconsciously, her maid falling down over her as she rushed into the room, alarmed by the sudden and violent ringing of the bell.

1841, Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand a-Year, Boston: Little & Brown, published 1900, Vol. III, Chapter, VIII, p. 342:

She turned off the bed-head light in this tiny, low-ceiled rolling home of hers, raised the curtain and watched the specks of light streak by.

1940, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Bethel Merriday, London: Jonathan Cape, page 364:

The end of a bed where the pillow is placed, the head of the bed.


ragtag

en-adj

ragtag (comparative more ragtag, superlative most ragtag)

more ragtag (comparative)
most ragtag (superlative)

From earlier tag-rag and tag and rag, from rag + tag.

He liked to wear an old ragtag coat that was so threadbare that he'd get sunburned through it.

Unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair.

раздърпан

unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair

The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.

Very diverse; having irregular and dissimilar components.

allegaartje

very diverse; having irregular and dissimilar components


ragtag

Near-synonym: ragbag

The small group of ragtags, who had followed him to the cave a day prior had arrived and kept a short distance away.

2013, Casper Parks, Ages Past: The Isolation, page 258:


drip tip

(botany) An elongated leaf tip from which excess water can drip off harmlessly, as found in plants of the rainforest.

(entomology) An elongated extension to the wall of a structure, such that unwanted water drips off, as found in the nests of some species of rainforest paper wasps.

Once you know you have a dry atomizer, add three drops of your E-liquid through the drip tip.

2010, Mike Sands, Make Your Own E-Liquid, page 15:

Bottles of glycerin, propylene glycol, nicotine and flavorings line the shelves behind Setzer while mod boxes, atomizers and drip tips rest in the display case in front of him.

2015 June 6, Amy Trent, “Concerns cloud e-cigarette craze”, in Lynchburg News and Advance:

And you can bling them up with accessories, covers, different tanks, hand-crafted drip tips and so on.

2017 August 20, Simon Waters, “How I quit smoking and is vaping something you should try?”, in New Zealand Herald:

An attachment for an e-cigarette that drips e-liquid directly onto the atomizer.


cock block

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(vulgar, slang) Alternative spelling of cockblock


cock block

en-verb

cock block (third-person singular simple present cock blocks, present participle cock blocking, simple past and past participle cock blocked)

cock blocks (present singular third-person)
cock blocking (participle present)
cock blocked (participle past)
cock blocked (past)


fuck truck

...into this fuck truck she came, seamy with semen, a place that made a motel whorehouse seem as fresh as new grass.

1982, Jimmy Breslin, Forsaking All Others, page 293:

The Ford Econoline, also known as the fuck-truck, sat outside. We didn't need a condom. Penny had already started taking the birth control pill.

2002, John H Stover, The Road Runner: An American Odyssey, page 111:

'Shame, it's nicknamed the "fuck truck".' 'Flic, I didn't go to Oz to get laid!' 'What was it you were saying before you left?'

2005, S G Harrison Mumford, Dos-a-Dos, page 69:

(slang, vulgar) A van fitted out with a mattress in the back for sexual intercourse.


nipple cripple

(slang) A school prank, the act of taking a person's nipple between the thumb and forefinger and then twisting it around roughly.


rig pig

And, of course, they can maintain control of half a dozen shit-scared rig pigs.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse, page 95:

"Rig pigs are welders that drive souped up pick-up trucks with all their gear in the back and they spend weeks at sites welding. […]" "[…] You should know that. You're from Alberta!"

2006, Laurie Hannan, The Gamble, page 118:

You are truly a fucking champion and thank you for bringing a smile to a rig pig's wife!

2007, Paul Carter, This Is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield, page 238:

(oil industry, slang) A worker on an oil rig; a roughneck.


fun run

A sporting event where people run a certain distance to fundraise for charity rather than for competition.


Delhi belly

From the diarrhoea often experienced by foreign travellers to India; the city of Delhi was doubtless chosen for the rhyme with belly.

(idiomatic, informal) Digestive illness or diarrhoea, especially if suffered by a visitor to India.


snit fit

She didn't like his clothes or grammar and pitched a snit fit.

(informal, US) A tantrum; an excessive display of anger or disapproval.


quake lake

2008, "China braces as water rises at quake lake," AFP at Google News, 6 Jun.,
The May 12 quake triggered massive landslides in mountainous Sichuan province, blocking rivers and creating more than 30 unstable "quake lakes" that are threatening millions of people.

A lake formed after the damming of a watercourse by a landslide caused by an earthquake.


creature feature

en-noun

creature feature (plural creature features)

"Godzilla" is one of the classic creature features.

(idiomatic, film, humorous) A horror film in which one or more monsters plays a prominent role.


tozy-mozy

On the head of this we had another jug, three being cannie, after which we were both a wee tozy-mozy...

1895, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith - Page 109

Though a pattern of respectability, he can grow genial in his cups, or as he would say “a wee tozy-mozy."

1968, Cornelius Weygandt, A Century of the English Novel:

...speakin about shoogly, would you believe that I've never seen more than one drunk man in Rome? and he was not exackly what you would call drunk, but just a wee thing tozy-mozy like, as Mansie would say.

2008, Catherine Ponton Slater, Marget Pow, →ISBN, page 18:


crop top

A short T-shirt or blouse that is cut off above the abdomen.


Tex-Mex

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Tex-Mex.wav

Written first and foremost for the sensibility of the Latina in the US, Cuentos is bilingual and bicultural. Some of the stories appear in Spanish, others in English; most are written in Spanglish and Tex-Mex.

1984 April 14, Stephanie Poggi, “Mujeres en Lucha”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

An English-influenced dialect of Spanish spoken on both sides of the Mexico-United States border..


amber gambler

The sins the foundation has identified include eating at the wheel, becoming a traffic-light hopping "amber gambler" and drinking and driving.

2007 December 24, “Drivers warned over the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’”, in Bolton News, UK, retrieved 2011-08-29:

(UK, idiomatic) A driver of a road vehicle who accelerates when the traffic lights change from green to amber (instead of stopping, as required by law), gambling that no vehicle will cross his or her path; a driver who starts off when the traffic lights show red and amber together, but not yet green.


brain gain

An increase in the number of skilled workers in a country as a result of immigration.


shock rock

(music) A genre of rock music typified by elements of theatrical shock value in live performances.


Tony crony

From Tony + crony, chosen for the rhyme.

...including such folk as Peter Mandelson, a Labour spin doctor-turned-minister, and Lord Alli, an ennobled Asian Tony-crony with a television company.

Falconer is basically a good egg but his reputation as a "Tony crony" and his involvement with the Millennium Dome do him no favours.

2001, Royal Town Planning Institute, Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment:

She said the Tony crony thing was a real problem.

2007, Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years:

(British, informal, humorous, derogatory) An ingratiating political associate of the former British prime minister Tony Blair.


plain Jane

Charm school instructors […] can do something even for the plainest of plain Janes.

1954 November, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 8, number 11, page 46:

(informal) A young woman or girl of average or unremarkable appearance.

graue Maus

young woman of average or unremarkable appearance


culture vulture

culture vulture (plural culture vultures)

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə ˌvʌlt͡ʃə/

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹ ˌvʌlt͡ʃəɹ/

However, a different indigenous researcher sees the use of restorative justice circles by nonindigenous people as being more of culture vultures and taking culture applicable to them and ignoring a brutal history of abuse, oppression, and genocide.

2020, Thomas Reed, “A Critical Review of the Native American Tradition of Circle Practices”, in Robin Throne, editor, Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit (Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies Book Series), Hershey, Pa.: Information Science Reference, IGI Global, published 2021, →ISBN, page 135:

Similarly, plug-in culture participates in a long history of cultural appropriation related to the construction of the male neoliberal subject. Think about Diplo, EDM producer-DJ and oft-accused "culture vulture," whose modus operandi involves applying Western, Eurocentric, and Americanized EDM styles to samples from global dance music communities.

2022, Mike D’Errico, “Plug-in Cultures”, in Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Sonic Architectures), page 43:

cultural appropriation
cultural appropriation

cultural appropriator
cultural appropriator

(slang, derogatory, sociology) Someone who engages in cultural appropriation; a cultural appropriator.


purple nurple

Rhyming derivation of purple and nipple.


study buddy

(informal) A schoolmate with whom schoolwork is completed, often somebody one sits next to in a classroom.


trolley dolly

I am sure these people were once normal. That is until they walked into BA's superior 'trolley dolly' school. From day one, I am positive it was drummed into them that all economy passengers are scum.

But that was the 1960s and the lot of the trolley dolly has changed: political correctness put an end to age restrictions and the responsibilities go beyond asking passengers whether they want "chicken or fish".

2006, Simon A Bennett, A Sociology of Commercial Flight Crew:

It was sickening and the gross unfairness of it left Cate seriously questioning why she'd ever wanted to be a defence lawyer in the first place. Why hadn't she followed her early adolescent ambitions of becoming a high-flying trolley-dolly - a tart with a cart?

2006, Scott Creighton, Something Went Bump:

(slang, derogatory) A female flight attendant.


shit fit

When the Republicans found out that Wilson's second bill was actually being credited to Al Blumenthal and Fred Ohrenstein, two Democrats the Republicans have a particular animosity toward, they, to put it mildly, threw a shit-fit.

1974, Phil Tracy, "State Secrets, The Village Voice, 23 May, p. 3 (retrieved 17 June 2009)

My sweet little usually mellow kitty was having a total shit fit, screaming her head off.

2007, Kris Carr, Sheryl Crow, Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips, →ISBN, page 25:

(chiefly US, Canada, vulgar) A childish display of anger or frustration; a tantrum; a frantic outburst.


galpal

"Drew dumps boyfriend and shacks up with gay galpal."

My kid and her galpals all played this song five hundred thousand times in a row when they first brought it home...

2001, Kim Cooper, David Smay, Bubblegum music is the naked truth:

It is there he first sees Lynn Halsey-Taylor, an up-and-coming young country singer played by Eastwood's then-galpal Sondra Locke.

2005, Scott Von Doviak, Hick flicks: the rise and fall of redneck cinema:


pec deck

(colloquial) An exercise machine used to develop the pectoral muscles.


blame game

She was, in addition, always extremely careful to share with the friends in her Support System her belief that it would be whiny and pathetic to play what she derisively called the "Blame Game" and blame her constant and indescribable adult pain on their parents' traumatic divorce or their cynical use of her.

[1998 January, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, in Harpers Magazine, page 58:

The UK and France are “engaging in a blame game” over people making perilous Channel crossings in small boats, Labour has said, rather than sitting down together to try to work out a way to prevent more deaths.

2021 November 28, Peter Walker, “UK and France playing ‘blame game’ after Channel deaths, say Labour”, in The Guardian:

A blame game is taking place between Network Rail and the Football Association regarding the closure of the West Coast Main Line over the Easter Bank Holiday, which coincides with an FA Cup semi-final taking place at Wembley Stadium on April 16.

2022 April 6, Industry Insider, “Fixture clashes”, in RAIL, number 954, page 68:

The estimates of the cost of “Trussonomics” will intensify a bitter blame game now being played out at the top of the Tory party.

2022 November 12, Toby Helm, Phillip Inman, “Revealed: the £30bn cost of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget”, in The Guardian:

Political parties are ensnared in a blame game, with the ruling and opposition parties blaming each other. An audit will no doubt follow.

2023 August 9, Raphael Rashid, “‘Worst nightmare’: South Korea mulls disastrous Scout jamboree”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future [title]

2024 November 7, Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Nehamas, “Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(informal, idiomatic) A situation in which people attempt to blame others rather than trying to resolve a problem.


plank spanker

(slang) guitarist; someone who plays the guitar


stranger danger

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Arlo Barnes-stranger danger.wav

The totality of perceived dangers to children presented by strangers.


cock sock

To Barry Sandler, author of the screenplay, an Obscene Oscar—for peddling the year’s outstanding example of R-rated pornography; with special mention for the scene in which Lombard gives Gable a handknitted cock sock […]

1976 May, “Movies”, in Playboy, volume 23, number 5, page 22:

Costume designer Patrick Antosh explains that the birth of the cock sock came from his work on the film American Psycho. “There was a scene with Christian Bale running around entirely naked covered in blood. He didn’t want to do full frontal nudity, so I developed a spandex pouch that fits over the entire genitalia. […]

2003, Paul Ruditis, Queer as Folk: The Book, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 106:

I was scrolling one afternoon when I saw a post from a guy in Melbourne selling crochet cock socks for $150 each.

2020 July 13, Felippe Canale, “Meet the Guy in Melbourne Knitting Socks for Cocks”, in Vice:

(slang, vulgar) A garment designed to cover the penis, either as a novelty item or for the purpose of modesty.


flower power

Coined by American poet and writer Allen Ginsberg.

coin

The hippies, meanwhile, seem to be flagging. Just for a moment, during the Flower Power summer of 1967, it looked as though they might matter but ever since they've been gradually losing momentum and last summer's Isle of Wight/Bob Dylan Festival, which should have signaled a revival, fell distinctly flat.

1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Those crazy years, that was the time / Of the flower power

1980, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics and music), “Our Last Summer”, in Super Trouper, performed by ABBA:

The Beetle's cheap, frugal and functional nature attracted legions of flower-power fans and the little Vee Dubs became symbols, moving protests and even works of art.

2012, Ivan Berg, Nik Berg, Top Gear: Motor Mania:

“Flower Power” by Bernie Boston—one of two iconic images of the 1960s flower power movement taken on the same day during an anti-war protest at the Pentagon in 1967. Here George Harris places carnations into gun barrels.

2023, Stephen Forbes, A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 139:

(US, historical) A counterculture movement that started in the United States in the 1960s, advocating peace and love over militarism and materialism.


driver reviver

The implication was that the driver reviver was a conspiracy designed to marginalise Catholics and that the organisers could expect a final reckoning. Indeed, there was a final reckoning. By the end of the Easter break, volunteers had made 18,000 cups of tea and coffee, all offered as a gesture of friendship to strangers, but evidently the work of Satan.

2007, Michael McGirr, Bypass: The Story of a Road, page 109:

The Wilcannia CTC^([Community Technology Centre]) planned to establish a small local museum in the same building and a driver reviver centre to encourage passing tourists into the building.

2007, Laurel Evelyn Dyson, Max A. N. Hendriks, Stephen Grant, Information Technology and Indigenous People, page 279:

In some states, “driver reviver” stations operate on major roads during holiday periods. They serve free tea, coffee, and cookies, and are often at roadside picnic areas that have restrooms.

2010, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer's Australia 2011, unnumbered page:

(Australia) a temporary roadside rest stop, often sponsored by local businesses, used to allow drivers a rest on long road trips in order to improve road safety.


trustbuster

America’s top trustbusters mean to make their policing presence felt. Lawyers, bankers and financiers now “recognise that there are cops on the beat…that we’re vigorously looking to protect the American public from illegal mergers,” says Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces consumer-protection and competition laws.

2023 June 21, “Why Joe Biden’s trustbusters have fallen short of their ambitions”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

(US) A person or entity responsible for breaking up trusts or monopolies.


rooster booster

en-noun

rooster booster (plural rooster boosters)


sin-bin

Hooker Dylan Hartley was sent to the sin-bin after yet another infringement at the breakdown and, on the stroke of half-time, Georgia's territorial advantage finally told when number eight Basilaia surged over from the base of the scrum for a try next to the posts.

2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:


Care Bear

Brand name. The characters were introduced in 1981 for use on greeting cards and turned into plush toys in 1983.

The baby or toddler who goes to sleep alone (with a Care Bear, with his favorite blanket, or by sucking his thumb) learns valuable self-quieting behaviors that can be used for many years to come.

1994, Edward R. Christophersen, Pediatric Compliance: A Guide for the Primary Care Physician, page 171:

But the domestic turkey is about as remote from the wild animal as a Care Bear is from a grizzly.

2004, Jerry Sullivan, Hunting for Frogs on Elston, and Other Tales from Field & Street, page 68:

One of my real aspirations of this is I wanna see interstellar wars between Care Bears and Klingons.

2007 March 13, Will Wright, keynote, South by Southwest, Austin

Any of a brand of cheerful bear figures, seen on greeting cards and as stuffed toys.


dune coon

You're a...damn dune coon. B: Mhm. A: Not convincing is it? B: You're not great at the sentences part to be honest. A: Hah, I know, I know... B: You can definitely hate better than that. A: Heart's not really in it.

(Can we date this quote?), Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Artistic Directors of the Future...Talks Brexit, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82:

Now, get lost you dune coon. Harvard doesn't realize that he's still on mic. His comments are heard by the viewing audience. CAMERA ON AC H MAD ACHMAD Dune coon? Hey, I'm also half mick. As you've heard, this is an unprecedented case of[…]

2009 01, Pat Mulligan, Three Comedies for the Screen, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 354:

“My story is about the first time I ever heard the expression 'dune coon,' ” she said. Cornelia was relieved that Mrs. Hakim was not going to read about what she had done, but she was also confused. She had never heard that expression[…]

2011 March 2, Christy Cauley, Writers on the Storm, Christy Cauley, →ISBN, page 204:

More dinosaurs died in Arabia than anywhere else.” “Dune Coons?” “Sand niggers,” Big Ed said. “Your A-rabs cause the glut and they cause the gasoline lines. Whatever suits their ass. I was tryin' to deal with a Dune Coon the other day.

2015 April 7, Dan Jenkins, LIFE ITS OWN SELF, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

No Dune Coon gonna loo/e cross—eyed at my Rachel. He did more than that the first night we went out. Ended up back at his place. That was the twentieth ofJuly. Took less than three weeks to get him to the JP. I was desperate.

2005 November 23, Elrod Stanton, Resurrection and Reclamation, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 141:

... and within that core community, as Bee Burgers suggests, lies a most fundamental binary: human beings whose life and autonomy are presumptively respected and those “dune coon muslim terrorists” who should be killed.49 With terrorist[…]

2015 November 15, John Pettegrew, Light It Up: The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq, JHU Press, →ISBN:

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Someone of Middle Eastern or North African descent.


wagger-pagger-bagger

Jocular modification of wastepaper basket. See -er.

(Taking flowers from vase) If you don't mind, therefore, I shall deposit them in the wagger-pagger-bagger. (Drops flowers into waste paper basket.)

1948, John Courtenay Trewin, Plays of the year: Volume 1:

If only he hadn't woken himself in the night with ludicrous, fey notions which now thankfully lay at the bottom of the wagger-pagger-bagger—he punched the splintery door of the shed—damn it all to the bloodiest—

2009, H. S. Cross, Riding: Volume 2, page 364:

(UK, slang, dated, public schools) A wastepaper basket.


over-the-shoulder boulder holder

over-the-shoulder boulder holder (plural over-the-shoulder boulder holders)

over-the-shoulder boulder holders (plural)

I longed to be part of the over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder club, if only I had boulders to hold! Or small stones. Even pebbles would have been acceptable.

2005, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Chicken soup for the girl's soul, page 261:

And there wasn't one plain white cotton and elastic over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder in the bunch.

2009, Julie Miller, Jule McBride, Carrie Hudson, Oneclick Buy: April 2009 Harlequin Blaze:

The image was not attractive, but I didn't find my look in an underwire bra, which was more like an over-the-shoulder boulder holder on me, any better.

2011, Nick Krieger, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender:


comp stomp

(slang, video games) A competitive game against one or more computer-controlled players.


pill mill

2011, Jane Musgrave, The Palm Beach Post, 4 men sentenced in pill mill scheme, link
Four men who helped Jeff and Chris George run their lucrative pill mills received sentences ranging from 9 months to 14 years today in federal court.

2014, JB McMunn, M.D., Naked Capitalism, The Stealthy, Ugly Growth of Corporatized Medicine, link
Needless to say, the professional bullying from the primary care physicians (PCPs) and the [hospital] administrators to run both a pill mill and a needle jockey business was tremendous. I resisted the entire time, but god it wore me out. [From a pain specialist for a large multi-specialty group.]

(idiomatic) A clandestine operation where a medical worker illicitly offers prescription medication to patients in exchange for bribes.


dream team

[d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪi̯m]

A team of players or members ideal for a given task; a team of the best players of a particular sport or members of a particular field.


cellar dweller

A publicity stunt has gone horribly wrong for Gold Coast United after the A-League cellar dwellers suspended their coach Miron Bleiberg indefinitely over comments regarding teenager Mitch Cooper's appointment as skipper.

2012 February 16, “Gold Coast United suspend coach”, in ESPN Australia:

Cellar dwellers Gold Coast United will not be turned into a travelling road show to combat poor home support according to the club's owner Clive Palmer.

2012 February 12, “No Travelling Road Show For United”, in Australian four Four Two, archived from the original on 2012-09-05:

2006 November 8, “Defending champs downed by cellar dweller”, in Vancouver Sun:

(US, Canada, Australia, sports) A team at the bottom of a league, or in a lower league.


smock frock

What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap?

1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 46, page 777:

He was often introduced into meetings through back doors, with a smock frock on his back, and a whip in his hand.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over other clothing, as by farm labourers.


love glove

She seemed like she should be accompanied by one of those miniature dogs with a bow in its hair and a heart rate of 1,000 beats per minute and should carry one of those little rhinestone purses that couldn't possibly hold more than a lipstick and a love glove.

1995 June, Paula Poundstone, “Republican field guide”, in Mother Jones:


city titty

(US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A raised marker separating the lanes of a road.


snake rake

A lock-picking tool in the form of a thin, flat length of metal with a wavy section at one end, designed to jostle the pins of a low-quality lock into a position allowing it to be unlocked.


Malfunction Junction

Attested in military publications from the early Cold War years. Perhaps popularized, and widened in sense, by the 1973 Schoolhouse Rock! segment "Conjunction Junction".

The center of the new city was on the Clark Fork River, one and one half miles from what would become Malfunction Junction, along the newly built military road (now an interstate highway) and what became a railroad line,[…]

2003, James Gifford, Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux, editors, Culture + the State: Landscape and Ecology, CRC Studio, →ISBN, page 152:

(US, informal) A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion.


whacky tabaccy

Rooting about in her parachute bag she hauled out the neck of a Jack Daniel's bottle stuffed with what smelt like some high-grade whacky tabaccy.

2012, Zinaid Meeran, Tanuki Ichiban, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 138:


wacky tabaccy

"You better cut back on that wacky tabaccy," I cautioned.

2012, Daniel Davidson, The Scammers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 173:


whacky tobaccy

What asks R. B. P. is marihuana? Then rymie-wymies his own answer: Whacky tobaccy

[1939 October 23, Matt Weinstock, “Town Talk”, in Daily News, Los Angeles, page 23:

He lit a stick of whacky tobaccy and took a solid hit.

1989, Daniel G. Baldyga, A Sailor Remembers: His Voyage from Darkness Into Light, Mystic House, →ISBN, page 63:


wacky tobaccy

I stepped inside and the odor of wacky tobaccy lingered in the air.

2006, K. J. Larsen, Liar, Liar, Poisoned Pen Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 144:


cock rock

Ellen performs with incredible force and strength. Her guitar style is unique and very special, and her slide work could probably destroy any number of male institutions, particularly the one that says women can't play electric guitar, plus the feminist myth that all electric music is cock-rock. Ellen could probably squash the main proponents of cock-rock under her thumb-pick.

1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, Ellie McIlwaine, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:

People have this image of us. They think we're cock rock. It's time to rein it in a bit. We're not going, Wahey! and pouring champagne on girls' tits.

2004, Dave Black, The Darkness "Talking":

Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.

2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(informal) A style of rock music performed by male bands, emphasizing aggressive sexuality.


Space Race

The informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to launch unmanned satellites, send people into space and land them on the Moon.


drama llama

/ˈdɹɑːmə ˈlɑːmə/

Drama is consuming. It destroys relationships. It opens a door for gossip, lying, and jealousy and is a big, fat time-sucker. The Scripture above says it all! You and I both know when the drama llama, has not just paid a visit, but also made herself right at home. It is time to evaluate your life—starting with yourself—and kick that Llama out the door.

2011, Gillian M. Henriques, Toshana N. Sledge, Tina Turner, Marcy Bomhak, Hers to Treasure: 100 Devotional/Journal from Sisters in Christ (Women's Fellowship), Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 173:

"Aw, Mom. Don't be a drama llama." / "Excuse me?" / "You know, don't make a fuss about nothing." / "But why a llama?" / "Because a drama llama throws drama around like a llama spits. Everywhere!"

2012, Mary Griggs, Crash Stop, Tallahassee, Fla.: Bella Books, →ISBN:

It was certainly true that Lewie was no ordinary llama. Other llamas didn't spend their days singing and dancing and acting! Even his parents, Mama and Papa Llama, had to admit that Lewie was a bit of a Drama Llama.

2013, Rose Impey, Llama Drama – In It To Win It! (Awesome Animals), HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN:

I try not to pay too much attention to the drama-llamas and gossip.

2015, Dena Celeste, Her Master's Gift (The Edge), Klawock, Ak.: Decadent Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:


loco moco

Reportedly from Spanish loco (“crazy”), with an arbitrary rhyme for the second word.

A traditional Hawaiian meal, usually of white rice topped with a hamburger patty, a fried egg, and gravy.


thrill kill

"It was a thrill kill. Robbery was an afterthought. This is one of the most senseless murders we've had down there in years."

1988 March 9, Sheridan R. Hansen, “Police arrest 2 Utah Count teenagers for questioning in Las Vegas shooting”, in Deseret News, retrieved 2013-05-17, page B3:

"[T]his essentially was a killing for no reason, a thrill kill. . . ," said Attorney Donald Macomber.

2012 April 12, “Supreme Court Hears Appeal of Colin Koehler's Life Sentence”, in WABI TV, retrieved 2013-05-17:

(idiomatic) An act of murder motivated solely by the murderer's desire to have a very exciting experience.


shot spot

I pretended to be the Chief Executive from Zurich, setting a shot spots competition. This was my protest at the failure of the laundry system to wash out the semen stains from the sheets.

2009 April 29, Malachi O'Doherty, “Archive for April, 2009: More Libya Stuff”, in Malachi O'Doherty—The journalism and recordings of a Belfast writer, retrieved 2013-08-22:

I carefully looked and saw Mary Ann sprawled naked on the bed. . . . I saw a wet shot spot clearly visible next to her. I slumped momentarily confronted with the unmistakable visual evidence of their passion.

2010 Sept. 1, SirenSeeker, "Marking My Women Ch. 05," literotica.com (retrieved 22 August 2013)

(slang, vulgar) A stain left on a surface by the ejaculation of semen.


spank bank

Now my mother just became part of his spank bank. Just what I needed. The only guy I was screwing and now when he was whacking off he'd be thinking about my mom. Ick!

2005, Jill L. Ferguson, Sometimes Art Can't Save You, In Your Face Ink LLC, →ISBN, page 22:

[…] but on the other hand it would've been nice to get a view of that outstanding cleavage again. It was a thing of beauty and had immediately qualified her for membership to my mental “spank bank.”

2007, Brandon Wilkinson, Memoirs of the Messed Up Minds, iUniverse, →ISBN:

The Highwayman Fantasy had been in the spank bank forever. When she watched old episodes of Star Trek, she'd wished for the holodeck to be real so she could be held up and accosted by a handsome highwayman who was really a disinherited duke trying to right some horrible wrong, […]

2012, Saranna DeWylde, How to Lose a Demon in 10 Days, Brava Books, →ISBN:

(slang) A mental stock of images or fantasies brought to mind when masturbating.


wank bank

Hosing her down made her jeans cling to her labia even more, not to mention the peanuts she smuggled under her shirt when I brushed her tits. That whole bit of business made a deposit in my wank bank.

2006, P. F. Kozak, Passion, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 15:

I flipped through the wank bank, finally stopping at a love scene starring me and a Bay State Games bronze-medalist pole-vaulter who was in the same Major British Writers study group as me.

2009, Joe Pernice, It Feels So Good When I Stop, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

She reaches out and lazily trails her fingers along his shaft, all the way from base to tip, as though mentally filing its dimensions in her private wank bank, to bring out on those nights when she has only her rabbit vibrator for company.

2013, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Anything for You: Erotica for Kinky Couples, Cleis Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

(vulgar, slang) Synonym of spank bank (“mental stock of images or fantasies brought to mind when masturbating”)


todger dodger

From todger + dodger, chosen for the rhyme.

Todger Dodger

2001, Batfink, “Re: some gooduns...”, in alt.drugs.pot (Usenet):

[…] don't tell me that frigid little todger-dodger has got to you too […]

2011, Simon Packham, The Opposite Bastard, page 223:

As far as she was concerned, you were just that weird girl from school who never spoke to anyone –' 'The fat todger-dodger with no friends?' Mel smiles.


pocket rocket

And then Torry suggested we climb in bed together while I told him the rest of the story, and I could tell from the way his pocket rocket was standing all straight out and stiff that he probably wouldn't be able to pay attention to the story anyhow.

2009, Nicola Cuti, Moonie and the Spider Queen, page 113:


Henny Penny

The Henny Pennies who forecast doom and disaster thus have been proved hysterics who could use some est or encounter sessions to calm their anxieties.

1984, Carol Chambers Collins, Our Food, Air and Water: How Safe Are They?, Facts on File, published 1984, →ISBN, page 27:

I know that in some quarters I am regarded as a kind of wet blanket, a Henny Penny predicting doom and gloom.

2001, Seymour B. Sarason, American Psychology & Schools: A Critique, Teachers College Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 130:

On April 11, in a tense news conference during a period when the looting dominated the news, Rumsfeld dismissed the media by calling them “Henny Pennies,” a reference to a children's tale in which the main character runs around, declaring that the sky is falling.

2006, Rebecca Knuth, Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Praegar Publishers, published 2006, →ISBN, page 209:

One who panics at the slightest provocation.


no-tell motel

Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.

There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.

2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120:

(slang) A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.


fag rag

For those of you out-of-the-know, Blueboy is a fag rag on the nice end of the spectrum (opposite Manmeat.)

1992, Louise Rafkin, Queer and Pleasant Danger: Writing Out My Life, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 148:

He handed her the magazine, and she recognized it as one of her brother Herb's gay publications which he kept hidden in a box under his bed, thinking no one knew about his stash of fag rags.

1997, John Patrick, Come Again, STARbooks press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110:

I ask my readers to send their old “fag rags” to me instead of burning them, since I argue that these magazines are part of our gay cultural heritage.

2011, Karl Andersson, Gay Man's Worst Friend: The Story of Destroyer Magazine, Entartetes Leben (2011; original Swedish book published 2010), page 50

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.


fag mag

What people usually mean by that is 'my career has gone so far down the dumper I only have gay fans', or 'my career is at such a low ebb no one else can be bothered to interview me so my press officer officer fixed up this interview with some crummy fag mag.')

1995, Richard Smith, Seduced and Abandoned: Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music, Cassell, →ISBN, page 118:

“You probably want some fag mag. Tight butts with chest hair and trim mustaches.”

1999, Steve Vivan, A Self-Made Monster, Boson Books, →ISBN:

Todd's secret is uncovered when his friends Alan (Evan Handler) and Kirk (Manfred Melcher) find a “fag mag” in Todd's desk.

2002, Stephen Tropiano, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV, Applause Theatre & Cinema, →ISBN:


baby rabies

Some grandparents get baby rabies worse than some parents.

2004 January 25, Terry Austin, “Re: BURKE HAS SUMMONED TERRY AUSTIN!!!”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):

I was absolutely shocked when I came down with “baby rabies” in my early 30's after 11 years of marriage.

2008, Dawn, "Making the Childfree Choice after a Heartbreaking Choice", in Our Heartbreaking Choices: Forty-Six Women Share Their Stories of Interrupting a Much-Wanted Pregnancy (ed. Christie Brooks), iUniverse (2008), unnumbered page

Some women in their 30s, especially those who wake up with baby rabies at 35, continue to maintain high standards: demanding that a man be straight, single and paroled.

2010, Amy Alkon, "Advice Goddess", Pacific Sun, 11 June 2010 - 17 June 2010, page 39

(slang, humorous or derogatory) An urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.


drink link

Humorously suggesting that it is a convenient source of money for alcoholic drinks.

This particular ATM was known as the 'drink-link'. It was good to know she would get money any time, for an extra round or a taxi home — assuming she could still remember her PIN number.

2000, William Cullen, Doris Lehniger, B for Business, page 91:

'Yes, and CCTV on the drink link and at Fabio's chipper.'


loser cruiser

In Chappaqua, few self-respecting high school students will ride the bus, derided as the "loser cruiser," preferring to get rides from parents or other students.

2000 September 24, Merri Rosenberg, “A Shortage of Parking Spaces Plagues the County's High Schools”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-13:

Before I took the first European Megabus on Monday, a friend disparaged the coach as a "loser cruiser".

2012 April 20, Simon Calder, “'Loser cruiser' or the modern way to Paris?”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-06-13:

We are all going to be riding the Bus (aka loser cruiser) down to the Unemployment office to receive our Government Benefits pretty soon.

2012 June 4, Mike Jones, “Comments: Use of public transit is soaring in 2012”, in USA Today, retrieved 2014-06-13:

If you ride the "loser cruiser," the government figures you get what you deserve. Air conditioned bus indeed!

2014 May 14, skessel, "Comments: MassDOT board expected to approve MBTA fare hikes," Boston Globe (retrieved 13 June 2014)


beaver fever

(informal) giardiasis (an infection by Giardia parasites)


mates' rates

I looked at him quizzically. ‘It's Rose's place. She says pop in anytime for a hairdo. Mates' rates.’ I must have looked wary because he added, ‘She's good.’ I nodded politely.

2014, Jonathan Harvey, The Girl Who Just Appeared, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 94:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, chiefly in the plural) Discounted prices offered to friends.


snitch bitch

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(prison slang, derogatory) A snitch; one who informs the authorities about another person.


brolly dolly

From the umbrellas (“brolly”) they carry; chosen for the rhyme.


rod pod

(fishing) A stand for holding various items of angling equipment while it is in use.


spack attack

We had some small touristy spack attacks here as our hotel was rubbish (even Istvan thought so) so relocated a few times until we were happy […]

2011, Shirley Castley, One Eye Crying, One Eye Laughing, page 265:

She left jobs because she had “meltdowns from the stress” or had “spack attacks.”

2009, Niall McLaren, Humanizing Psychiatry: The Biocognitive Model, page 169:

(UK, slang, derogatory) A fit of foolish rage; a tantrum.


gump stump

"Finding them won't be a problem. There's employment records, driver's license records, Social Security records, records up the gump-stump. […]

1996, Philip Caputo, Equation for Evil, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 85–86:

"Are you hungry? We've got eggs up the gump stump, honey. I thought we could scramble up a panful for breakfast."

1999, Carolyn Davidson, The Tender Stranger, Harlequin, →ISBN:

"Yeah, that's what worries me. You weren't exactly famous for being wrong all that much. Pain in the gump stump, yes, but wrong? Not often. […]

2003, P. T. Deutermann, The Firefly, St. Martin's Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 360:


nip slip

Short for nipple slip, equivalent to nip + slip, chosen for the rhyme.

She had a nip slip during her Houston concert.

I can hardly remember a single word I said during that interview because I was too damn worried that on my first live television show, I was going to have my first live nip slip. Please don't let my boob come out.

2017, Andi Dorfman, It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 133:

(slang) The brief accidental exposure of a woman's breast, usually partially and on the side.


ginger minger

/ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)ˈmɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

His hair's a bit thinner and slightly receding: baldness is a curse for a lot of ginger mingers.

2002, Irvine Welsh, Porno, Vintage, published 2013, →ISBN, page 168:

'Is the girl really a ginger minger?' Dannie asked Deirdre.
'She is anything but,' Deirdre told her.

2008, Kate Thompson, Love Lies Bleeding, New Island, →ISBN, page 175:

He knocks back the last of his beer and goes, 'Better text Kathleen,' who's the ginger minger I'm talking about. He's seeing her, when he's not trying to worm his way into my bird, that is.

2012, Paul Howard, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, PS, I Scored The Bridesmaids, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:

(UK, slang, vulgar, derogatory) A person who has red pubic hair.


motion lotion

Lubricated and fueled by Elf, the nationalized purveyor of French motion lotion, the RE30B is on the verge of becoming perhaps unbeatable.

1983, Car and Driver, volume 28, page 106:


noob tube

From the sense that an overpowered weapon might make it easier for "noobs" (newcomers to the game) to succeed against experienced players. Originally stems from the Call of Duty franchise, where the under barrel grenade launcher attachment for an assault rifle became a preferred choice for many newcomer players due to its tendency to one-hit kill any opponents with ease.

(video games, slang) A very overpowered firearm, especially a grenade launcher.


jelly belly

Likely from Jelly Belly, the brand of candy.

My stretchy top kept riding above my jelly belly, but I didn't care.

2008, Simmone Howell, Everything Beautiful:

Or maybe she just has that dreaded jelly belly – the same one I seem to have after all the American portions.

2012, Niamh Greene, A Message to Your Heart:

(slang) Rolls of fat that form around the stomach of an overweight person.


buttslut

(sexuality, slang, vulgar) Somebody who frequently craves anal sex.

persehuora

vulgar slang: somebody who frequently craves anal sex


dickpic

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[…] Russia is demanding we remove all content that purportedly glorifies homosexuality, suicide, and drugs or face the prospect of getting interdicted, and here in the Emirates they are insisting we not just block the amateur dickpics or vids but also immolate their posters […]

To a question that seemed to be “is it legitimate for the government to obtain a copy of your dickpic?,” people are unanimously opposed. Nobody considers it legitimate for a government to access people's dickpics. […] From here on out, Snowden wilfully plays with Oliver on the possible and eventual destination of Oliver's dickpic inside the vast network of agencies and data-centers.

2018, Julie A. Webber, The Joke Is on Us, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 154:

“It’s like howling into the void for most guys,” he explained, “and like searching for a diamond in a sea of dick pics for most girls.”

2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic:

(vulgar, slang) A photograph of a penis, taken for sexual purposes.


cuddle puddle

(colloquial) A group session of hugging and petting.


oldies goldies

A genre of music consisting of hit records from former eras, generally 30 or more years in the past.


cart tart

(colloquial, derogatory) A female flight attendant.


stench trench

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Her stench trench has seen so much action, it must be like a wind tunnel in that thing.


tire fire

As the tire fire that is the Edmonton Oilers rages on, their AHL affiliate is going through a worse ordeal.

2014 December 19, “NHL: Oilers lose AHL affiliate Oklahoma City Barons due to attendance issues”, in Sports Illustrated, retrieved 2017-02-10:

The Reds pitching staff is a tire fire.

2016 May 18, Kraemer_17, "Listless Blue Jays Embarrassed for 2nd Night," BluebirdBanter.com (retrieved 10 Feb 2017)

The Browns . . . threw three quarterbacks into the tire fire against Baltimore last week.

2016 November 18, David White, “Pro Football: Who We Think Will Win in Week 11”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-02-10:

During his hourlong tire fire of an interview . . . the sheer volume of breathtaking lies flippantly uttered by President Trump made it legitimately difficult to decide which one of them posed the most direct threat to American democracy.

2017 January 26, Jay Willis, “Donald Trump Is Making Shameless Equivocation the Dominant Form of Political Discourse”, in GQ, retrieved 2017-02-10:

(chiefly US, idiomatic, usually sports) A disaster; a chaotic person, thing, or situation.


dude food

(informal) Junk food prepared with simple ingredients and with an emphasis on meat.


rocket docket

(US, law) A court or other tribunal that is noted for the speedy disposition of cases.


Bieber fever

(informal) Enthusiasm for the Canadian singer Justin Bieber.


cunt-punt

en-verb

cunt-punt (third-person singular simple present cunt-punts, present participle cunt-punting, simple past and past participle cunt-punted)

cunt-punts (present singular third-person)
cunt-punting (participle present)
cunt-punted (participle past)
cunt-punted (past)

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(slang, vulgar, transitive) To kick (a female) in the groin.


swag bag

Mid-19th century UK. From swag (“stolen goods”).

Except in old-fashioned thrillers and detective stories there doesn't seem to be much talk of thieves and break-ins. There might be a robbery in P. G. Wodehouse, but only as a bit of comic business, as in the modern cartoon, where eye-mask and swag-bag identify the comic neighbourhood burglar.

2004, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Magic Seeds:

A career criminal was caught by police as he attempted to leave a swag bag of stolen goods with a friend's next-door neighbour.

2014 December 22, Jeremy Culley, “One of Bolton's most prolific criminals is caught after trying to leave bag of stolen goods with baffled neighbour”, in The Bolton News:

A bungling robber who had to abandon £9,000-worth of cigarettes because the swag bag was too heavy has been told he deserved every day of his four-and-a-half year sentence.

2017 March 14, James Cartledge, “Bungling raider who dumped stolen cigarettes because swag bag was too heavy loses jail appeal”, in The Birmingham Mail:


drug rug

So called because of its association with the cannabis subculture.


Google Doodle

American graphic designer and filmmaker, Saul Bass, has been given a video Google Doodle to mark what would have been his 93rd birthday.

2013 May 8, Luke Howard, “Google Doodle celebrates work of graphic designer Saul Bass with Video Tribute”, in The Independent:

The Quintanilla-inspired Doodle comes after Google's homepage artwork has been criticized in the past for its lack of diversity. A report from advocacy group SPARK Movement found in 2014 that 62% of people featured in Google Doodles from 2010 through 2013 were white men.

2017 October 17, Lisa Eadicicco, “New Google Doodle Celebrates Iconic Singer Selena Quintanilla”, in Time:

Today, a Google Doodle has celebrated the 66th anniversary of the creation of the game-changing institution.

2017 October 18, David Hughs, “Studio for Electronic Music remembered with Google Doodle – why the German institution's 66th anniversary is worth celebrating”, in The Sun:

(Internet) A periodic alteration of the logo on Google's homepage that is intended to celebrate achievements, events, holidays, and noteworthy people.


commotion lotion

(Scotland, slang) Buckfast Tonic Wine, a brand of fortified wine.


no-tell hotel

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soy boy

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Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油 /酱油 (jiàngyóu)obor.
Japanese 醤油
Japanese そやbor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
English soy boy
From the idea that men who prefer soy to dairy and meat are weak and feminine, and that the naturally occurring phytoestrogen in soy feminizes men. See Soybean (Wikipedia) for more.

etymon

(Internet slang, derogatory) An effeminate or unmasculine man.


sticky-icky

No stress, no seeds, no stems, no sticks! / Some of that real sticky-icky-icky / Ooh wee! Put it in the air!

1999 November 16, Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg (lyrics and music), “Still D.R.E.”:

(African-American Vernacular, slang) Marijuana.


grouper trooper

en-noun

grouper trooper (plural grouper troopers)

(US, slang) A game warden responsible for protecting fish.


booger sugar

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Compound of booger + sugar, alluding to the common application involving nasal inhalation.

Nurse Hall: Is there any reason we shouldn't do a full workup? / Steve Denube: Ignorance is bliss; that's about it. Hangover's worse than usual but that's probably from the drinking and recreational drug use. / Nurse Hall: We'll ignore the ganja and booger sugar markers.

2019, Justin Benson, directed by Justin Benson, Synchronic, spoken by Nurse Hall and Steve Denube (Rhonda Johnson Dents and Anthony Mackie), XYZ Films, →OCLC:

By the time they get here we'll already have the story of the senator's legislative director in the wrong woman's car with a snout full of booger sugar on the front page of the Globe and the Herald.

2023, Cait Duffy, directed by Omar Madha, "A Night at the Symphony" (Reacher), Shaun Sipos (actor):

(US, slang) Cocaine drugs in powder form.


tard guard

(Canada, US, slang, offensive) A person employed to look after people with mental disabilities, particularly involving restraint and protecting the person from harming himself or others.


Kappa slapper

Chosen for the rhyme (in non-rhotic accents); Kappa is a sportswear clothing brand.

(UK, slang, derogatory) A female chav or townie.


Jucy Lucy

Various unsupported theories, but apparently from juicy and the name Lucy, chosen for the rhyme (and respelled accordingly).

(Upper Midwestern US) A cheeseburger with the cheese inside the meat instead of on top, resulting in a melted core of cheese.


God squad

(informal, derogatory) Christians who proselytize.


randy mandies

Chosen for the rhyme, from mandies, with randy describing the sexual desire they may induce.

(slang) Synonym of mandies (“the drug methaqualone”)


vidkid

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Like the pool sharks and pinball wizards before them, "vidkids" have invaded the world and are just as controversial.

In addition to the obvious distraction of the laptops in the classroom, vidkids now have an even more invidious distraction […]

2006, Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry:

Similarly, in Joystick Nation, dedicated to her "vidkid little brother," author J. C. Herz states: […]

2008, Yasmin B. Kafai, Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming:

(slang) A young person with an interest in playing video games.


quit lit

A genre of confessional writings by people who have left academia.


red Ned

VERNA: And get him to pick up a flagon o' Red. [She goes toward the bathroom door and turns.] Ya know what they say about the Old Red Ned…puts lead in ya pencil!

1977, Gerry Bostock, “Here Comes the Nigger”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 70:

(Australia, colloquial) Cheap or poor-quality red wine.


red vet pet

(informal, historical) A form of petroleum jelly formerly supplied as a sunscreen in survival kits etc.


noon balloon

Coordinate term: shoulder

We did not have a noon balloon, but when needed I met VIPs at the airport. I chauffeured them between the airport, hotel and the plant.

1995, Edward C. Welter, GM Means Good Money, page 105:

The noon balloon was chosen as the basis for the traffic model because during this arrival rush demand exceeds airport capacity and air traffic managers impose time-based metering restrictions […]

1999, Journal of Aircraft, volume 36, numbers 4-6, page 788:

(aviation) A period around midday when an airport has a particularly large amount of air traffic.


itty bitty titty committee

the itty bitty titty committee (canonical)

Coined for the rhyme. First attested on American musical comedian Rusty Warren's record Rusty Rides Again (1967).

Oh yeah, there's lots of little Nanny-No-Knockers – in fact, we've got our own group. It's called the I.B.T.C., that's the itty bitty titty committee.

1967, Rusty Warren, Rusty Rides Again, Jubilee Records, side B, 09:02

Sandy smiled dryly. "When my friends were getting breasts, but eons before I was, they would say I was on the Itty-bitty Titty Committee. […]"

1997, Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, Random House, page 46:

"I’m gettin’ me some implants … so I can get my Pamela Anderson on." ¶ "I heard that, cause you know you belong to the itty bitty titty committee."

2011, Sheila Copeland, Saved and Single, Kensington Books, page 298:

"But please try to keep your expectations in check. As a former member of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee myself, I can understand your hype. But I still don't want you to feel crushed if they don't get as big as you'd like."

2017 January 24, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 907 - Committee:

When I failed to develop large breasts, my father asked me if I planned to join the "Itty Bitty Titty Committee".

2019 March 8, Rachel Inberg, “My life in sex: the woman who grew up in the porn industry”, in The Guardian:

(vulgar slang, humorous, often derogatory) Women or girls with small breasts, viewed collectively.


rail trail

As railroads fell into disuse, they left behind thousand of miles of corridor and, of course, potential trails. Today, the Great Lakes region of the Midwest boasts 381 rail-trails, and Wisconsin and Michigan are constantly vying for the most rail-trail miles of all 50 states and the more than 1500 rail-trails across the United States […]

2009, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Rail-Trails Midwest Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, Wilderness Press, →ISBN, page 1:

(rail transport) A former railway track converted into a multi-use path, typically as a greenway for walking and cycling.


repo depo

(military, slang) Alternative form of repo depot


repple depple

Cartoonist and commentator Bill Mauldin, who served in the war, explains: When a soldier gets out of an army hospital he will most likely be thrown into a “repple depple.”

2006, Peter Karsten, Encyclopedia of War and American Society, page 1115:


gender mender

(electronics) Synonym of gender changer (“electronic coupling device”)


boomer remover

From being an agent that removes baby boomers from the living population, i.e. kills them, as older people are more susceptible to the virus. (See quotations below.)

We’re being instructed to return COVID possible patients back to their “3 per room” SNF prior to receiving test results. […] Fuck, they're taking #boomerremover seriously

2020 March 16, SliverMcSilverson, “Anyone else seeing this”, in Reddit:

On February 29 this year, Twitter user @nurselietv posted the tweet “I heard someone call the coronavirus the ‘boomer remover’.”

2020 March 17, Anne Acuña, “Internet riled up over cruel new Gen-Z, Millennial clapback calling COVID-19 as ‘Boomer Remover’”, in InqPop!:

Ageism has been blamed for islands of death in nursing homes (Mueller, 2020), and for a spike in intergenerational animosity, as captured in internet epithets such as “grandma/grandpa killer,” “boomer remover,” and “boomer doomer” (pre-Covid-19; “coffin dodger”).

2021, Bronwen Lichtenstein, “From “Coffin Dodger” to “Boomer Remover”: Outbreaks of Ageism in Three Countries With Divergent Approaches to Coronavirus Control”, in The Journals of Gerontology, series b, →DOI:

This was supposed to be the #BoomerRemover .... they truly are the worst generation.

2021 March 30, Surgical Sister, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-03-30:

(slang, humorous, derogatory) COVID-19 (“the disease”) or SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”).


reply guy

en-verb

reply guy (third-person singular simple present reply guys, present participle reply guying, simple past and past participle reply guyed)

reply guys (present singular third-person)
reply guying (participle present)
reply guyed (participle past)
reply guyed (past)

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(Internet, informal, derogatory) To reply to a social media post as a reply guy.


one pump chump

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Chosen for the rhyme. From the tendency of people suffering from premature ejaculation to ejaculate after a very short time, perhaps even after a single pelvic thrust or “pump”, during sexual intercourse.

Premature ejaculator
premature ejaculator

premature ejaculation
premature ejaculation#English

(informal) Premature ejaculator (person suffering from premature ejaculation).


fail whale

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The fail whale originated on Twitter; the term was coined by web designer Jen Simmons in 2007 in a tweet.

coinage

(Internet slang) An image of a whale that formerly accompanied certain error messages on the Twitter microblogging website.


mutt's nuts

Rhyming variant of dog's bollocks; nuts in the sense of testicles.

(British, vulgar slang) Something regarded as outstandingly good.


nope rope

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Chosen for the rhyme. Rope suggests the snake's shape and nope that it inspires fear or aversion, prompting someone to nope out.

There are tons of danger noodles, nope ropes, and long bois throughout our streams, our forests, and our backyards;[…]

2019, David A. Steen, Secrets of Snakes: The Science beyond the Myths, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

The next time you're startled by a nope rope in your yard, perhaps you can appreciate the remarkable way it moves without limbs or even the way its mouth quirks up in what could be called a smile with a certain stretch of the imagination.

2020, Erica Wright, Snake, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:


pumpkin chunkin'

Modified from chucking to form an approximate rhyme. Compare punkin.

The informal sport of hurling a pumpkin as far as possible by mechanical means.


peachy keen jelly bean

(informal, humorous) Synonym of peachy keen


Fauci ouchie

Named after Anthony Fauci (born 1940), chief medical advisor to US president Joe Biden since 2021. Chosen for the rhyme, ouchie because a vaccine injection may be painful.

Meanwhile… some people are lining up to get their “Fauci Ouchie.” CNN reports: “Vaxxies” are the new selfies…taken with a needle in your arm. In the CNN clip, we see Biden, Harris, Pence, and Fauci given the vaccine.

2021 January 9, Mary Pearson, “Covid-19 Vaccine”, in Co-op City Times, volume 56, number 2, page 8:

To Joey Gilbert, a Reno criminal trial attorney, former professional boxer and now one of a dozen (and counting) Republican candidates for governor, COVID-19 vaccination shots are still “Fauci ouchies,” masks are “face diapers,” and actions Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak undertook to fight the pandemic were, and remain, “criminal.”

2022 March 11, Bill Dentzer, “‘Trump from the jump:’ Reno lawyer and ex-boxer fights to become governor”, in Las Vegas Review-Journal:

The new ideas face scientific, developmental, manufacturing, financial and regulatory hurdles, and must clear clinical trials. But the government would be wise to do everything possible to help. The Fauci “ouchie” was just short of a miracle. Now, we need another.

2022 July 27, “The Fauci ‘ouchie’ was a near miracle. We need another.”, in The Washington Post:

(US, slang, humorous) A COVID-19 vaccination.

Anthony Fauci
Chief Medical Advisor to the President
Joe Biden


merge-purge

en-verb

merge-purge (third-person singular simple present merge-purges, present participle merge-purging, simple past and past participle merge-purged)

merge-purges (present singular third-person)
merge-purging (participle present)
merge-purged (participle past)
merge-purged (past)

(computing, dated) To combine two lists of data, removing any duplicate entries.


fag tag

The idea that the textile sense has been connected with the anti-gay sense since its inception may be a folk etymology.

(slang, derogatory, dated) Such a textile tag, or any other mark or feature on one's person or one's clothing, that allegedly labels one as gay (homosexual), especially in the notional playground lore of schoolchildren raised in a cultural milieu of anti-gay ideology.


pod mod

electronic cigarette
electronic cigarette

A kind of electronic cigarette used to vape nicotine through a mouthpiece connected to the body of the device by magnets.


hip whip

(roller derby) The act of grabbing a teammate's hips in order to propel oneself forward.


love dove

Some such tablets were marked with an image of a dove (the bird).


cutie patootie

Compound of cutie (“cute person”) + patootie (“attractive woman; girlfriend”), probably chosen because the words rhyme.

com+

Early mornings are best approached as late nights in the toddler-training arena, especially if it's still dark outside. Explain, in ten words or less, that it's still sleep time and that Cutie Patootie needs to go back to bed for more rest.

1999 February, Vicki Iovine, “Sleepy Time”, in The Girlfriends’ Guide to Toddlers […] (A Perigee Book), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 181:

The British import Get Real (directed by Simon Shore) is the love story of two classmates—outcast Steven (total cutie patootie Ben Silverstone, above left with Charlotte Brittain) and Big Man on Campus John (Brad Gorton).

1999 May, Marc S. Malkin, “Preview (Film): To Live and Love in the ‘So-called’ Years”, in James Collard, editor, Out, New York, N.Y.: Out Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 86:

Like, yeah! We love Usher. We decided to focus on his cutie-patootie face instead of his bodacious body.

2004 December – 2005 January, “The 50 Hottest Rockers! More Cute Boys than You Can Shake a Stick at. Bigger, Better and … Pinker than Ever.”, in Brandon Holley, editor, Elle Girl, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73:

He's an excellent teacher, a dedicated police officer, and a bit of a cutie patootie, too (but don't tell my husband I said that).

2018, Marnie Blue, “Acknowledgements”, in Mistletoe Kisses, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

(chiefly US, slang) An adorable and attractive person.


stealth wealth

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So-called “quiet luxury” — understated but ultra-luxurious clothes favoured by the super-rich — is back in vogue, with an emphasis on stealth-wealth brands such as The Row, Loro Piana, Max Mara and Hermès.

2023 March 30, Carola Long, “Gwyneth Paltrow, ‘stealth wealth’ star of the courtroom catwalk”, in Financial Times:

(informal) Monetary wealth that its owner keeps secret or discreet, rather than flaunting it; quiet luxury.


prairie fairy

(slang, derogatory) An environmental activist.


sack-whack

‘Sack whack!’ Poppy said, retreating from a deft move in which she'd slapped Fergal between the legs with the back of her hand.

2014, Robert Muchamore, Rock War: The Audition, Hachette, →ISBN:

(slang, humorous) A slap in the testicles.


pudgy wudgy

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community immunity

en-noun

community immunity (countable and uncountable, plural community immunities)

How to help: Be social wise while we build community immunity

2021 December 9, Ottawa Public Health, “Thank you for getting vaccinated!”, in Community Immunity: Let's stay the course, Ottawa, archived from the original on 2022-01-11:

In Delta we look forward to championing the race to community immunity and hope all of our neighbours will be right on our heels.

2021 May 27, Fraser Health, “Fraser Health Mayors Challenge Each Other to Community Immunity”, in News:

A third category, community immunity, does not involve physical components of the immune system for protection, but is still worth discussion in this capacity.

2019 April 22, Paul A. Offit, “Types of Immunity”, in Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia:


Itty Bitty Titty Committee

the Itty Bitty Titty Committee (plural Itty Bitty Titty Committees)

the Itty Bitty Titty Committee (canonical)
Itty Bitty Titty Committees (plural)

itty bitty titty committee
itty bitty titty committee#English

Alternative form of itty bitty titty committee


hip dip

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(usually in the plural) A naturally-occurring indentation on the side of the hip.


clotshot

(medicine, slang, derogatory, neologism) An administration of a COVID vaccination, resulting in unexpected and untimely blood clots.


Herkimer Jerkimer

Herkimer Jerkimer (plural Herkimer Jerkimers)

A reduplicated rhyming compound, from Herkimer and jerk. First appeared during the 1940s.

Herkimer Jerkimer, a fool, a rustic, is a "jerk from Herkimer," an impossibly remote place. This jerk was, presumably, from his upstate hometown of Herkimer, New York, ZIP code 13350.

1995, Irving Lewis Allen, “The Contempt for Provincial Life”, in The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 245:

A 'Herkimer Jerkimer?' Why, that's a local yokel, you rube.

1995 November 19, Jesse McKinley, “F.Y.I.”, in New York Times, section 13, page 2:

(New York City, slang, derogatory, dated) A yokel; a country bumpkin.


throat goat

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From throat (“to take into the throat”) + GOAT (“greatest of all time”).

compound

(sex, slang, vulgar) One who is exceptionally good at fellatio; particularly deep-throating.


lip flip

(slang) A cosmetic surgery procedure involving an injection of Botox into the upper lip to give a fuller or poutier appearance.


bitch switch

(slang, vulgar, humorous) A tendency to have sudden, unexplained fits of rage.


Wacko Jacko

/ˈwæ.kəʊ ˈd͡ʒæ.kəʊ/

i bet Wacko Jacko was kind of wishing now that he "beat it" a long time ago ;-)

2003 November 25, kali yuga 2004, “Who set up Wacko Jacko?”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet), retrieved 2022-11-04:

(humorous, derogatory) A nickname of the American singer-songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist Michael Jackson (1958-2009).


flannel panel

The contributors had a really big credit on their features, so that saves some space / And everyone else is up there in the Flannel Panel From Hell.

1993 September, Your Sinclair, number 93, page 2:

[…] with my (cough!) gargantuan talents other than use them to collect a fortnightly wage for writing flannel panels and interviews with the seemingly miserable (I could never figure out why) cast of Hey Dad...! about how they all got on so well.

2011, Marc Andrews, Claire Isaac, David Nichols, Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984-2007, page 106:

(journalism, slang) A section of a magazine listing the contributors and their roles.


geezer teaser

First known reference to the term was in a March 2021 Vulture article, in which film distribution executive Adam Champ attributed it to a client.

One of my clients calls it a ‘geezer teaser’: You have Bruce Willis at the intro of the movie, so people are like, Great, this is a Bruce Willis movie. But he’s actually a secondary character who shows up sporadically.

2021 March 31, Joshua Hunt, quoting Adam Champ, “The King of the Geezer Teasers”, in Vulture:

These low-budget affairs are called Geezer Teasers. They're genre movies that star older actors and cater to the direct-to-video (or streaming) market.

2022 January 6, “What Is a Geezer Teaser? And Why Do They Make Money?”, in No Film School:

5. Crackle
Good for: Fans of classic TV, British television, geezer teaser action movies
Crackle is a collection of on-demand TV and films, with a few originals included in a library that leans heavily on BBC content such as “Midsomer Murders” and such classic shows as “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “What's Happening,” “The Little Rascals” and “Barney Miller.”

2022 November 20, Kelly Lawler, “Free your mind: The best free streaming services, ranked”, in Detroit Free Press, page E.1:

(film, neologism, derogatory) A film, most often an action film released direct to video and primarily distributed via video on demand (VOD), for which older, well-known male actors ("geezers") are billed in lead or co-lead roles and prominently featured (teased) in promotional material, but only appear sporadically during the film itself.


boulder holder

Alternative form of over-the-shoulder boulder holder (“a large bra”)


semen demon

(slang, humorous, derogatory, vulgar) A child; a brat.


diaper sniper

He was a softie, a predatory sex offender with a penchant for juveniles—a diaper sniper, the lowest of the low.


ginger ninja

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care bear

Alternative letter-case form of Care Bear


waccy baccy

"I'm smoking what I can get," says Dorthy Parker, "'Strange Fruit,' or what they are called." Well, they could be called Weird Weeds or Waccy Baccy.

[1944 November 26, “Paragraphics”, in News and Record, Greensboro, page 32:


punkin chunkin

pumpkin chunkin'
pumpkin chunkin'#English


harrier carrier

en-noun

harrier carrier (plural harrier carriers)

Blend of harrier + aircraft carrier. From the Hawker-Siddeley Harrier GR.1/2/3 & AV-8A and the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, the Harrier jump jet named after the harrier bird.

aircraft carrier
aircraft carrier#English

(nautical, military, aviation, slang) A small light fast aircraft carrier specialized in operating VTOL aircraft, used for controlling sea lanes, convoy escort, and anti-submarine patrol (ASW).

en:Hawker-Siddeley Harrier
en:McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II


truffle shuffle

truffle shuffle (plural truffle shuffles)

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From the American adventure comedy film The Goonies (1985).

(slang, childish) The act of an overweight or obese individual holding their excess fat around the stomach and then shaking it.


scene queen

(informal) A girl or woman who is deeply involved in a subcultural scene.


frat rat

Jesus, he had been a real fuckup in college, a frat rat, drinking, partying, playing golf, earning eighteen hours of fucking-off credit per semester, and screwing girls—What the hell was a sixteen-year-old girl doing at a goddamn frat party?

2007, Mark Gimenez, The Abduction, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 174:

The purpose of [Matt] Gaetz and his frat rats wasn't to bring the facts to light, or to expose some nefarious behavior by the Democrats and Republicans on the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry, who were in the SCIF hearing the testimony of yet another fact witness in what is now absolutely established as a quid pro quo in Donald Trump's attempt to extort the Ukrainian government.

2019 October 24, Rick Wilson, “Trump's Ukraine Clown Posse Sounds Like Shit”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

The poems of Robert Frost whispered to her soul, carrying her through the hard times and lifting her spirits when the various college boys she'd met were little more than frat rats who wanted the one thing Greta was sure she did not want. At least, not then. Not yet.

2020, Elizabeth Bromke, The Innkeeper's House: A Hickory Grove Novel, White Mountains, A.Z.: Publishing in the Pines, →ISBN, page 14:

(slang, often derogatory) A member of a fraternity.


pale male

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pale male.


beaver deceiver

beaver deceiver (plural beaver deceivers)

A device to prevent flooding damage due to beaver dams, such as a hidden pipe (that cannot be detected or easily blocked by beavers) to divert water which would otherwise build up behind the dam.


noob toob

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(video games, slang, humorous) Alternative form of noob tube


gruesome twosome

gruesome twosome (plural gruesome twosomes)

But Carr Hartley’s most remarkable possessions are his two white rhinos, Mitzi and Gus. […] The differences between black and white rhinos are marked, and it has often been pointed out that the name ‘white’ does not come from the skin colour. […] However, Carr’s gruesome twosome are strangely light in shade.

1912, Alastair Scobie, Adventurer's Paradise:

Lederer and Jackson use a similar system of labels to discriminate the happiest ("the heavenly twins") from the unhappiest marriages ("the gruesome twosome" ) .

1975, Heather L. Ross, Isabel V. Sawhill, Anita R. MacIntosh, Time of Transition: The Growth of Families Headed by Women, page 39:

All he could think about was the gruesome twosome in the back of the room, and why is he in my dreams.

2012, Troy Onder, Town Secrets, page 19:

Armitage was squeaking like crazy. At that moment there was a gurgling sound and the gruesome twosome passed through the machine. It clunked and groaned like never before, as they passed through the rollers. Finally two very large burgers trundled out. In one, Burt’s shattered wraparound shades poked out. In another, Sheila’s pink furry slippers were clearly visible. They were two distinctly unappetising-looking burgers.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Pink Furry Slippers”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 279–280:

Mbappé and Neymar were a gruesome twosome for any defence to come up against.

(humorous, idiomatic) A pair of people who go together, such as two friends, siblings, a married couple, etc., especially if they are mischievous, cause trouble, do not get along well, or have an unpleasant appearance.


coola boola

Reduplication of cool, influenced by Irish English ruaille buaille (“commotion”), from Irish ruaille buaille.

Relax! Everything's coola boola.

(predicative, Ireland, slang) Cool; all right; fine.


coola boola

(Ireland, slang) Cool; okay; no problem.