Showing posts with label InDefinition: a lexicon for the 21st century.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label InDefinition: a lexicon for the 21st century.. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

InDefinition - 14

ohmigod, n. unit of measurement for adolescent enthusiasm (rare)

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Indefinition - 13

slowlights, n. Real-time test-match footage, as shown on Day 5, to fill broadcast schedule in light of humiliating defeat.

Sunday, 15 November 2009

InDefinition - 12

saxoporn, n. musical genre, originating in '80s Demi Moore movies, now found also in chain coffee-shops, DIY superstores and branches of LUSH.

Saturday, 14 November 2009

InDefinition - 11

titter, v. traditional schoolboy reaction to mention of jugs, norks, boobies, and other adolescent synonyms for jubbly fun-bags.

Wednesday, 7 October 2009

InDefinition - 10

dinner dance, n. prelude to a violent voiding of the bowels, usu. in the tropics (esp. if some distance from the nearest convenience). Ideally performed solo.

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

InDefinition - 9

impostropher, n. One who puts apostrophe's where they do not belong.

Sunday, 30 August 2009

Indefinition - 8

Double-entry book-keeping, n. Pornographic act involving librarians.

Monday, 13 July 2009

Thursday, 9 July 2009

InDefinition - 7

singletonne, n. Unattached female, often for obvious reasons. (Orig. Fr.)

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Monday, 29 June 2009

Friday, 17 April 2009

The definition of pressure

"The last time he took a penalty kick he missed and his mother was taken to hospital after collapsing."

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

InDefinition - 4

deprecation, n. What Hollywood types do to their eyebrows whenever a foreigner asks them to laugh at themselves.

Thursday, 26 March 2009

InDefinition - 3

accidental philanthropy, n. Having your stuff stolen.

Saturday, 1 November 2008

InDefinition - 2

Nascent, n. prop. Original name of Tashkent (before it got big, of course).

Friday, 12 September 2008

InDefinition - 1

mumpteen, adj. Precise number of times your mother has seen a given film (Notting Hill, e.g.) the basic plot of which she still cannot remember.