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Urban Dictionary

December 15, 2006 - -

You may never heard of the Urban Dictionary, but it's a site I visit frequently to check up on certain vernacular words and phrases. I thought I'd highlight a few here that have caught my fancy of late.

  • Air Quotes: The act of placing your hands outstretched from either side of your head and making a peace sign that bends up and down within the fingers while using a corporate buzzword.
  • Stink Lines: As seen in illustrations or cartoons: Wavy, vertical lines rising above a person, place or thing. Denotes a foul odor.
  • Gleek: A projectile sublingual gland secretion in the form of a single stream, usually stimulated by a sour taste or by yawning, sometimes involuntary, often controlled and used as a sly way of spitting on someone.
  • Pididdle: A game in which you look for cars with headlight or foglight out (pididdle) or tail light (pedunk) and call it out.
  • Roshambo: A game; to kick each other in the balls in turn, last one standing wins.

Ugh. That last one is horrible. Pretend I didn't include that.