Octopod's definitions

turnip truck

Metaphorical vehicle bringing rubes to Gotham. One who falls off the truck is hopelessly naive.

You know, I didn't just fall off the turnip truck! I know stuff about the Big City.

by octopod May 29, 2004

megillah

Something long complex, and possibly tedious. Fr. Yiddish/Hebrew, for "scroll." Certain scrolls are read on particular holidays; it takes a long time, hence the secondary meaning.

I asked for instructions, and he explained the whole manual to me, the whole megillah, from beginning to end. It took two hours.

by octopod October 20, 2008

kicker

The detail (usually unpleasant) that changes everything.

The kicker was, Mephisto was supposed to get Faust's soul -- forever!

by Octopod November 9, 2003

shell out

Pay up, pay out.

We went bowling last night and I had to shell out because no one else had any cash.

by octopod November 9, 2003

America's sweetheart

Tonya Harding.

Tonya Harding is America's sweetheart

by octopod June 28, 2004

stick up his ass

Pompous, a stiff, tighter than a duck's ass.

John Kerry has a stick up his ass.

by octopod March 4, 2004

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