Today's slang word of the day is manssiere. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Frank Costanza wanted to call it the "man-ssiere"; Kramer insisted it had to be the "bro." Their bizarre invention, featured on one of the more ridiculous episodes of Seinfeld, was a bra for men.
-- "Men's Breasts: No Joking Matter", Time, Michael D. Lemonick, Sep. 19 2007
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Raines: Yeah, but to actually see [people who aren't there]? Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
-- "Pilot", Raines (TV, 2007), Season 1 Episode 1
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is obit. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Blackham: I thought I'd lost [the ball]. Now here it is, along with coach Trump's obit.
-- "Identity", Persons Unknown (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 10
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is get stuck in. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
By keeping out of the debate over how livestock should be kept, those of us who have advocated veganism have allowed the champions of cruel, destructive, famine-inducing meat farming to prevail. It's time we got stuck in.
-- "I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat - but farm it properly", The Guardian (UK), George Monbiot, 6 September 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is go DEFCON. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
McNair: Maybe it's just me, but I don't think I'd let a man I barely know, who works for the people who kidnapped us, hold a straight blade to my throat...
Blackham: The guy offered Charlie a shave. No need to go all DEFCON 4.
-- "Seven Sacrifices", Persons Unknown (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 11
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is wag. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
The prostitute and the murder victim: How Wayne Rooney call girl and her close friend were seduced - and destroyed - by WAG lifestyle
-- article title, The Daily Mail (UK), 7 September 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is commentard. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Commentard completely loses the plot
-- article title, The Register, Lester Haines, 3 October 2008
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is goat. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Man, that game was GOAT.
"I just don't want him to be made a goat, goddamnit," Nixon told his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, on June 14, 1972, a few days after it was disclosed that Lavelle had been demoted for the allegedly unauthorized attacks.
-- "Honor restored for general blamed after Nixon denied authorizing Vietnam bombing", Washington Post, Craig Whitlock, August 5 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is up sticks. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Mr Lanier was born in New York City in 1960, but his bohemian parents upped sticks and moved to Mesilla, New Mexico, when he was young.
-- "The virtual curmudgeon", The Economist, Sep 2 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is bottle of crazy sauce. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Carly: That woman is one big bottle of crazy sauce!"
-- "iHave a Lovesick Teacher", iCarly (TV, 2008), Season 1 Episode 25
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is beyond the pale. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
"I think it's a lack of judicial integrity to say enough is enough," Norris says. "We've got a man, 70-year-old attorney, in jail for over a year on coercive confinement and that is way beyond the pale. No matter what else he may have done, that is improper."
-- "Ex-lawyer jailed 14 months, but not charged with a crime", CNN, Abbie Boudreau, Emily Probst and Dana Rosenblatt, May 24 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
