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LOL

Submitted by katayah on January 6, 2008 - 8:51am.
What question are you answering?:
lol
How is it used?:
Used on the Internet. Slang.
What does it mean?:
Most commonly: 'Laughing out loud'. Also: 'lots of love' or 'lots of luck'
How did it come to be used this way?:
Often used it could be inconvenient to be written in full, LOL is shorter and thus more useful.
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Do [your] bidding

Submitted by Visitor on August 29, 2007 - 7:09pm.
What question are you answering?:
do your bidding
How is it used?:
"I don't have to do your bidding, you know!" "Now that I have the UltraSuperJumbo Laser, I can make the world do my bidding!"
What does it mean?:
"To do someone's bidding" means to do as they say or to act out their will, whether you want to or not. In the movies, Igor is famous for doing Dr. Frankenstein's bidding.
  • 521 reads
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trophy wife

Submitted by MooseOnTheLoose on August 22, 2007 - 9:51am.
What question are you answering?:
trophy wife
How is it used?:
David just got himself a trophy wife.
What does it mean?:
Wealthy middle-aged men sometimes suddenly decide to separate/divorce their wives of many years and take up with a much younger woman. That new woman is called a trophy wife. It is often thought that the man is having a mid-life crisis (worried about his virility and so takes up with someone younger to 'prove' he's still got it); meanwhile the woman is usually regarded as being attracted to the man for his wealth.
How did it come to be used this way?:
Trophy wife is a derogatory term - something that looks pretty, but doesn't really do anything.
Trivia/fun facts:
Katie Holmes, Katherine Zeta Jones and Barbera Bush are all trophy wives
  • 490 reads

Stocious

Submitted by musicintheblood on May 8, 2007 - 4:39pm.

Definition:
To be incredibly drunk.

Usage:
"I was stocious at that gig last week."

Kitbash

Submitted by Tigger on March 6, 2007 - 8:16pm.

Definition:
Kitbashing is the art of building a scale model by adapting parts from another model kit

Usage:
"Nobody makes one quite like it, so I kitbashed this."

Bollocks

Submitted by kreshers on February 12, 2007 - 4:31pm.

Definition:
1.Used to show disagreement with someone. Mostly used in British English, it is equivalent to Bullshit in American English.
2. Used as an expression when something goes wrong.

Usage:
1. A: I am going to attend the meeting on Friday.
B: Bollocks, we know that you will leave on Thursay.
2. Bollocks, I forgot my keys!

  • 1126 reads

Damp Squib

Submitted by Tigger on January 28, 2007 - 4:51pm.

Definition:
An unexpectedly poor, underwhelming or unsuccessful event. Something that could have been a lot more impressive.

Usage:
"Billy looked at the small collection of gifts and sulked. His birthday party had been a damp squib."

Hen Fap 2: the sequel

Submitted by HenFap on October 26, 2006 - 9:35pm.

Definition:
Something of or pertaining to the musical genre ska punk

Usage:
Are you gonna go and listen to that new Hen Fap 2: the sequel band tonight?

the proof is in the pudding

Submitted by valery on August 9, 2006 - 1:29pm.

Definition:
This is a corruption of the original proverb: the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Usage:
The corrupted version has come to be used like so:
I guess the proof will be in the pudding on that.

Pop

Submitted by danesndobies on May 27, 2006 - 11:29am.

Definition:
soda, carbonated beverages (e.g. Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, etc.)

Usage:
We need to get some pop & beer for the barbeque next Saturday.
Nothing like an ice cold pop on a hot day.

  • 1355 reads
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