Slang word of the day: balogna

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

balogna

noun - uncountable

• nonsense.

  Balogna!

  Sam: I'm always putting you two in danger, and now I'm doing it to Andi.
  
  Sock: Listen to me. I do not want to hear any of this, "...I put my friends in danger" bologna right now, okay?
  
  -- "Acid Queen", Reaper (TV), Season 1 Episode 13 (2008)

  • See more words with the same meaning: nonsense, lies

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Slang word of the day: chintzy

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

chintzy

adjective

• poor quality; "second-rate".
  • See more words with the same meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing
• of poor taste or style; "tacky".

  Luce rues that a middle-class home is crowded - only 700 square feet - and "cluttered with chintzy memorabilia" and heartbreakingly defiant messages on refrigerator magnets.
  
  -- "Post-Anti-Americanism", Newsweek, Howard Fineman, August 09 2010

  Hank: What's it like in there?
  
  Britt: ... It's actually kinda chintzy. They got flower petals on the ground and shit.
  
  -- "Asunder", Terriers (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 10

  • See more words with the same meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

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Slang word of the day: global weirding

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

global weirding

noun - uncountable

• weather out of the norm. From the term "global warming".

  "It's what I call global weirding," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. "This has been a very strange year all over the planet."
  
  -- "Researcher says climate change may be cooling California", The Sacramento Bee, Matt Weiser, June 4 2011

  • See more words with the same meaning: weather (related to)

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Slang word of the day: Joe Schmoe

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

Joe Schmoe

noun

• a stand-in name used to represent the everyman.

  The guest list shouldn't include Joe Schmoe from Cuyahoga Falls, U.S.A.
  
  -- "Jackson's funeral too over the top", Times Record News, Lana Sweeten-Shults, July 12, 2009

  • See more words with the same meaning: dude, person of unspecified gender

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