Definitions by Octopod

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.

up shit's creek in a barbed-wire canoe by octopod August 25, 2004

mahu 

Tahitian word for a male who assumes female roles in his daily life.

That mahu cooks and cleans.

mahu by octopod August 19, 2004

piss hard-on 

Morning erection or hard-on combined with a need to urinate. The need to drain the lizard is not, in reality, the cause of the phenomenon.

I woke up with a piss hard-on, so I went out to the balcony of our hotel room, took a leak into the pool below, went back into the room and started to do her through the back door before she even was awake

piss hard-on by octopod July 24, 2004

perpetrator shoes 

White sneakers, in NYPD parlance a few years back. See perp.

The kid was walking along First Avenue wearing perpetrator shoes.

perpetrator shoes by octopod July 16, 2004

Don't try this at home 

Anything that's fun or dangerous, from the lawyer warnings on TV commercials. See professional driver on closed course.

Look, he's skateboarding on top of a 767!

Don't try this at home.

Don't try this at home by octopod July 11, 2004

I don't want to ruin our friendship 

Zip it up. I won't fuck you.

Can I just stick it in a little? I'm so horny!

I'd let you, but I don't want to ruin our friendship.

I don't want to ruin our friendship by octopod July 11, 2004

kaffir 

1. Arabic term meaning "infidel.' See kafir, kaafir. Plural kufaar, kaafirun.

2. Borrowed into Afrikaans and S. African English as insulting term for an African.

Under apartheid, the "kaffirs" had to live in locations.

kaffir by octopod July 11, 2004