Slang word of the day: jobber

Today's slang word of the day is jobber. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

jobber

noun

• a "professional wrestler" who loses matches so as to build up a featured wrestler's win/loss record and crowd appeal. Derogatory.

  I refuse to deal with Sean - he's a total jobber.

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  See more words meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail

• object with unspecified name.

  Hand me that jobber over there.

  See more words meaning: unspecified item(s), 'stuff', 'thing(s)'

• a middleman who buys and sells merchandise.

  Itinerant jobbers bought the sauces from Mr. Tran, and sold them to shops and other informal restaurants.
  
  -- "A Chili Sauce to Crow About", The New York Times, John T. Edge, May 19 2009

  See more words meaning: business (related to)

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: food coma

Today's slang word of the day is food coma. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

food coma

noun

• the tiredness experienced after eating a satisfying meal.

  Each [Thanksgiving], I gorge myself full of turkey, stuffing, brussels sprouts, string beans, and mashed potatoes and then sleep off my food coma on the couch with football... blasting in the background.
  
  -- "Food for Thought: A Makeshift Thanksgiving", The McGill Tribune, Adam Levine, 11/24/09

  See more words meaning: food and drink (related to)

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: Xmas

Today's slang word of the day is Xmas. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

Xmas

noun

• Christmas.

origin

• From "X" (the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word commonly translated as "Christ") and "mas" (the Old English word for "mass.")

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: make (one's) nut

Today's slang word of the day is make (one's) nut. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

make (one's) nut

verb

• to make one's living, or make the majority of one's living.

  Tattoo artist: No tats, [so he's] no gangster. Them cats make my nut.
  
  -- "Meet Juan Doe", Raines (TV, 2007), Season 1 Episode 2

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: hot shot

Today's slang word of the day is hot shot. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

hot shot

noun

• a shot of injected drugs sufficient to kill.

  Coroner: Massive steroid overdose. Someone pumped a solution into him with 20 times the potency of an average dose.
  
  Reese: A steroid hot shot.
  
  -- "Everything... All The Time", Life (TV, 2008), Season 2 Episode 2

notes

• See also hot-shot.

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: take a powder

Today's slang word of the day is take a powder. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

take a powder

verb - intransitive

• to leave. (As in: "go to the powder room.")

  Buster: I need you right now.
  
  Lucile Two: Fellas, take a powder.
  
  -- "My Mother the Car", Arrested Development (TV), Season 1 Episode 8

  Chiron: Take a powder. I said blow.
  
  -- "There Is Another Sky", Caprica (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 5

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: brill

Today's slang word of the day is brill. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

brill

adjective

• "brilliant".

  Gordon Flint: Are you kidding me? That's great. I love it! It's brill.
  
  -- "I Hear You, I See You", Parenthood (TV, 2010), Season 2 Episode 1

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: Christmas creep

Today's slang word of the day is Christmas creep. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

Christmas creep

noun - uncountable

• the phenomenon whereby the beginning of the Christmas shopping "season" beings earlier each consecutive year.

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)