Urban Word of the Day
August 13: hit the slide To quit one’s job in truly stunning fashion. Steven Slater was fed up of working for a–holes, so he hit the slide. ——————————— It will be (vaguely) interesting to see if this phrase actually catches on.
August 13: hit the slide To quit one’s job in truly stunning fashion. Steven Slater was fed up of working for a–holes, so he hit the slide. ——————————— It will be (vaguely) interesting to see if this phrase actually catches on.
August 8: HBIC It’s an acronym which stands for: Head Bitch In Charge I am the HBIC up in here, bow down bitches ————————————————- Mair, I think this is the new Queen of the Universe. Know what I’m sayin’?
July 13: Social Fruitfly Like a social butterfly, without any charm or beauty. An unwanted pest. My manager is a social fruitfly. All he does is talk and never does any work. —————
May 25: intexticated Describes people who drive while sending text messages on their phones. “Dude, what was THAT?!” “Probably just some intexticated highschooler.” “How did she get in a car accident?” “She was intexticated.”
May 7: fat finger verb, the act of performing a typo. Often used when referring to password typos. See Fat Finger Disease “I thought the server was down, but I just fat fingered my password.” “You didn’t get my email? I must have fat fingered the address.” ————————- Now, I think that fat-finger and fat-fingered [...]
April 18: ash hole 1) the small opening in the volcanic ash clouds that allow airliners to fly through without any chance of danger. 2) the opening at the top of a volcano from which forth spews volcanic ash We were stranded at Heathrow Airport for hours until the airline found some ash hole to [...]
April 13: Famine Underwear The garments you wear during a shortage of underwear, when you haven’t done laundry in several weeks or months. Usually characterized by lack of elasticity, holes (usually large and awkwardly located), stains, and typically are at least 5 – 10 years old. In some cases soccer shorts, underwear of unknown origin, [...]
I wonder, are people really using this yet? I started using snail mail a looooooong time ago. But I hadn’t heard “tree-book” until today. ——————— March 30: tree-book A book printed on dead trees, i.e. paper, as opposed to an e-book, which only exists electronically. Compare with snail mail. Thomas: Hey, how do you like [...]
February 26: dead cat bounce Investor slang; a brief recovery in the price of a falling stock. Term is derived from the idea that “even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height.” I tried to buy GX on the dead cat bounce but got burned.
February 19: Olympic Narcolepsy The sensation you get that you will abruptly fall asleep at any moment during the day due to trying to watch as much of the Olympics as you can the night prior, causing you to stay up way too late. A seasonal disorder, occuring in winter or summer only, and is [...]