Octopod's definitions

pg-13

A movie rating for films they add a few "oh, shits" to so it will appeal to pre-adolescents.

Say shit a few times, Manny, so this flick won't be G-rated.

by octopod November 23, 2003

AC-DC

Bisexual, swings both ways.

Friday I saw him in a gay bar; Saturday he was with a woman. AC-DC, I guess.

by octopod November 9, 2003

deep doo-doo

Euphemized version of deep shit, doo-doo being a baby word for shit.

"We're in deep doo-doo now," said Bush the Elder as the election returns came in.

by octopod January 23, 2004

rock paper scissors

Children's hand game of chance: scissors cuts paper, paper wraps rock, rock breaks scissors.

My turn! No, mine! Let's play rock paper scissors.

by octopod July 10, 2004

hoi polloi

Namby-pamby phrase for the masses, or the great unwashed. Fr. Ancient Greek "the many." Saying "the hoi polloi" is an ineffictive attempt at literary snobbery

We read The Atlantic; hoi polloi read People.

by octopod June 12, 2004

Sweet Potato Queens

A purportedly humorous cult of Southern women given to vulgar displays at local agrarian parades.

She became a complete Sweet Potato Queens groupie, and soon after lost her reason.

by octopod November 5, 2003

dead tree media

Newspapers and magazines, as opposed to talk radio and the Blogosphere.

I picked up the Times in the bus station the other day. Nothing in that dead tree media!

by octopod April 20, 2006