Downstrike's definitions

climb into the handbasket

An invitation to go on a trip, using a handbasket as transportation; derived from the phrase, go hell in a handbasket.

When you climb into the handbasket, be sure to take your lies with you.

by Downstrike November 6, 2006

puppie

The overwhelmingly larger number of entries under the spelling puppy should be a clue for the clueless that this spelling is incorrect.

Puppie is an incorrect spelling.

by Downstrike January 4, 2005

backs

A place in line behind someone who is already in line. See also, fronts.

Don't go to the end of the line. I'll give you backs.

by Downstrike December 23, 2004

get stoned

What you do before the word stoned applies. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not the only way to blow your mind, man!

"Everybody wants to get stoned."

by Downstrike October 16, 2004

big 10-4

In the CB slanguage:

1. Hi there!

2. Enthusiastic agreement.

1. I just wanted to say a big 10-4 to ya!

2. That's a big 10-4!

by Downstrike May 29, 2004

Bureaucracy

1. A form of government in which the true power lies in the hands of committees who dictate policy and bureaus that carry them out, with little accountability to the constituency.

2. A form of government, the authority of which is not so much to accomplish anything, but to obstruct accomplishment by anyone else.

3. The form of government that the United States of America really practices while the politicians distract the constituency.

Many nations and corporations are governed as bureaucracies.

by Downstrike June 5, 2004

biopiracy

The inhumanely arrogant practice of patenting naturally occurring substances and organisms, and those developed long ago by other people - making customary practices such as growing crops and conceiving babies patent violations.

Patenting human genes is an act of biopiracy that makes it impossible for Australian Aborigines and African bush people to have babies without violating those patents.

In the year 2000, the Indian government found it necessary to file 50,000 pages of scientific evidence against a 1997 American biopiracy patent on Basmati rice.

by Downstrike December 28, 2005