Harry Flashman's definitions

shrinkage

A phrase in inventory control that accounts for employee and customer theft.

The reason stuff costs so much in convenience stores is shrinkage.

by harry flashman July 10, 2003

klugle

The type of phlegm coughed up by a Klansman after smoking unfiltered Lucky Strikes for 30 years.

Conrad hacked up a huge pulsating klugle with veins in it after discovering that the previous patient on the dialysis machine was Afro-American and Medicare wouldn't do anything about it.

by harry flashman September 18, 2003

goof

A mistake or to make a mistake.

Sorry, that was a goof...it was a real .357 magnum round, not a .38 blank, I goofed...you want a tourniquet for that?

by harry flashman July 21, 2003

laissez-faire

Fr. Either a term meaning a policy of non-interference in economics or meaning an indolent homosexual.

Pierre, an economic adviser to the finance minister was going to propose a laissez-faire approach to the recession but was such a laissez-faire that he never got around to it.

by harry flashman July 7, 2003

fuck you too

A conversational stopgap measure or oratorical place holder that fills in for witty, biting reparte until a classier and to the point, cutting remark suitable to the occasion can be thought of hours later.

....yeah, well....uh...fuck you too.

by harry flashman July 3, 2003

dick splint

A medical device rendered obsolete by Viagra.

Yo, Rich...you can toss the dick splint if you double up on your Viagra.

by harry flashman July 12, 2003

holy fucking shit

An exclamation of surprise, exasperation, indignation and wonder.

Holy fucking shit, Hillary said she's running in 2004.

by harry flashman July 8, 2003