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[Nov. 21st, 2008|01:20 am] |
aquaman - Derogatory term for someone who's useless-- just as Aquaman was useless in the 1970s cartoon show The Superfriends.
e.g., Doc: You can't borrow your dad's car and drive us? You're useless, Aquaman. Den: So, I guess that means you'll drive. Eh?
aqwela - A blend of mood, music, color, and style.
e.g., When I went to college last year I definitely noticed aqwela from all of the students in my class.
armchair activism - Taking action via the internet in support of a political, social, or ecological cause or goal. By virtue of its isolated nature, this form of activism is remote from active involvement, in a fashion similar to armchair warriors (in the Pentagon) and armchair travelers. An individual who uses armchair activism to take action is an armchair activist.
e.g., Between the demands of work and family, she does not have time for active involvement in her favorite ecological cause and has become an armchair activist instead.
arniefest - Screening multiple Arnold Schwarzenegger films in the one sitting. Also known as the "Arn Film Festival."
e.g., Arniefest. My house. Friday. Be there. Or don't.
arrove - Past tense of arrive.
e.g., He arrove yesterday.
arryth'metic - The study of irregular numbers.
e.g., I had no trouble with fractals but a arryth'metic is giving me fits.
arsebiscuit - An exclamation. For instance to be used when one drops a heavy object on one's foot. No literal meaning; unfortunately, "arsebiscuits" do not exist.
e.g., Arsebiscuit, I've lost my car keys.
art-ghetto - Modern art exemplifying African-American urban sub-culture.
e.g., Ice Cube is one of the premier voices of Art-Ghetto cinema.
artattack - If someone dressed peculiarly, or used cosmetic makeup in such a way that it didn't match with the person or the ambience -- one could experience an artattack.
e.g., Upon seeing Minkshi today, I had an artattack.
aspiratage - Cool Dictionary: "Aspiratage is the surrealist art of making patterns in a carpet or rug with a vacuum cleaner (aspirateur in French)."
e.g., He liked to make aspiratage rather than simply use the vacuum cleaner to remove dust and dirt.
assemblieizer - One who assembles assemblies.
e.g., Ali is the assemblieizer for the high school.
atf - AssholeToleration Factor.
e.g., Had to bust out of that staff meeting. My ATF was at an all time low and I was fixin' to hit someone.
atmosfood - The combined assessment of a restaurant's food and environment.
e.g., You should check out Le Fracais. The atmosfood is sublime.
aubry - To put a song in a person's head by whistling, humming, or singing it in her presence, causing her in turn to begin whistling, humming, or singing it, without being aware how the song entered her head in the first place.
e.g., Wait a second. Why am I humming the "Banana Boat Song"? Did somebody aubry me?
audient - Singular of audience.
e.g., I'll sing. You be the audient.
auntagonist - One who hates his parent's sister.
e.g., He dismayed his cousins by being an auntagonist.
authorgeddon - " . . . the hypothetical date when the number of books published in a given year will exceed the number of people who have read a book that same year."
e.g., "Gutenberg would be proud but Lulu.com, a print on demand company, published a survey that suggested we should be afraid because the year 2052 will be the year of Authorgeddon."
auto-ballet - The dance done in heavy traffic by cars competing for lane spots and exit ramps.
e.g., After witnessing a dangerously complex auto-ballet, Ed took the next exit to wait for traffic to subside.
auto-pirate - The setting on computer that automatically cues your mp3 encoder to rip any music placed into the CD-ROM.
e.g., Grant had no respect for the music industry: his computer was set on auto-pirate.
avigastronome - One of a number of words we don't need for things we don't have. An avigastronome is a restaurant where they serve the same kind of food you get on airplanes.
e.g., Montmorency stopped in for a quick snack at his neighborhood avigastronome prior to going to his job at the silo.
avoidation - The fine art of avoiding someone.
e.g., I'm in avoidation
award winning restaurant - A restaurant that has food so sophisticated that it is inedible.
e.g., The restaurant was so award winning I couldn't recognize the spaghetti marinara.
awwaiid - A word whose acronym is its definition.
e.g., Awwaiid is awwaiid. There are no other known words which are awwaiid.
azure d'or - Album by a rock group marking the beginning of the end of the band. Usually synonymous with "sell out." This was the name of an album for the group Renaissance, where they shortened their majestic 8+ minute songs with full orchestra to 3-5 minutes radio-friendly tracks with overdubbed synthesizers instead.
e.g., Steve Hackett's absense on Genesis' "... and then there were three" marked the album as their Azure d'Or. |
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