Octopod's definitions

bubbameister

A long story or old wives' tale, that is, something a grandma would tell. Yiddish, from "bubba," "grandmother."

"I asked about the family, and she started in on a bubbameister about hospitals."

by octopod October 18, 2008

go all ghetto

Behave in a stereotypically African-American manner, either in dress, languance, or ass whuppin'.

If you don't shut up, I'ma go all ghetto on yo' triflin' cracka ass.

by octopod August 4, 2007

perp walk

Practice of displaying an arrested person to the press and public while delivering the person to the courtroom, etc.

Giuliani arrested stockbrokers and took them on a "perp walk" when he could have arrange for them to surrender quietly.

by octopod November 19, 2003

your father's moustache

Ancient, retro semi-insult, used either in annoyance or to contradict an assertion.

John Kerry does NOT look French! Ahh, ya fadda's moustache!

by octopod November 22, 2003

titoi

"Fuck you" in Tahitian.

I asked him to lend me 10000 Polynesian francs. "Titoi, popa'a" said he.

by octopod October 7, 2004

graybar hotel

Jail; hoosegow; the can; the jug; the calabozo; the slammer. A school of crime where you can get free medical care from Vietnames quacks and get ass-fucked as often as you like, or more. Also graybar motel.

I kited some checks, so they sent me on a three-month vacation at the graybar hotel.

by Octopod November 6, 2003

up shit's creek in a barbed-wire canoe

In serious trouble. Typically Australian version of "up the creek without a paddle."

When I reached for my credit card and found it was gone, I understood I was up shit's creek in a barbed-wire canoe.

by octopod August 25, 2004