MAC-Gyver's definitions

backwards slang

The practice of reversing the letters in a word and pronouncing the result phonetically (often changing the original spelling). A popular code used by London's lower classes and the criminal element to make their speech unintelligible to outsiders.

Police = Esclop.
Beer = Reeb.
Woman = Nammo.
Weed = Dew.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

Gargoyles

A US military slang term dating back to Desert Storm I (circa 1991) for a kind of wraparound sunglasses issued to personnel in the desert to reduce glare and prevent sun-blindness. May be derived either from a brand name or from the odd appearance they gave the wearer.

"When we returned from Saudi Arabia, the colonel gave a directive that we were to ditch our Gargoyles to maintain security. Our raccoon tansgave us away though."

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

All hat and no cattle

A slang phrase from the Southwestern United States, indicating a person is more image or projection than actual substance.
It is probably derived from the region's contempt for people who are not cowboys or ranchers but who try to mimic the frontiersman image through superficial adoption of the region's folkways.

President Bush's new tax plan is supposed to help the struggling middle class and revitalize the stock market. However, closer analysis reveals that he's just all hat and no cattle.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

reeb

A Cockney backwards slang term for beer.

"A pint of reeb, and be nippy!"

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

Flash

British slang for fancy or expensive-looking.

"That's a flash fawney ya got mate. It'd be a shame if I ha' tae break yer finger af tae get it."

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

do-mes

Womens' high heeled shoes or boots, from the fact that they advertise that the wearer is looking for someone to 'do her' ('do me')

The skeezer wore daisies and do-mes to her junior high graduation.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

Blind Pig

Canadian military slang dating back to World War I, for a mortar round or an aircraft 'iron' bomb, especially a heavy large-bore one. Derived from its weight and size, like a large pig.

"We were crossing the plain in open formation when the enemy brought smoke -- 'blind pigs' and rainmakers.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003