Oracle's definitions

red ken

Slang and newspaper term for Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, due to his communist associations.

Headline: "Red Ken extends congestion charge"

by oracle February 11, 2004

ANPR

Automatic Number Plate Recognition.
CCTV cameras used in the UK (and elsewhere) used to log road vehicle movements by reading the vehicle number plates using OCR technology.
ANPR is used to enforce the London congestion charge, in SPECS speed cameras, and from March 2006, all road vehicle movements on main roads in the UK (along with petrol stations, supermarkets and Motorway service areas) will be logged by the police for unspecified purposes.

"Watch out, ANPR up ahead"

by oracle February 27, 2006

klub extreme

An extremely bad club in Golders Green, London. About the size of my living room, and filled with tossers with moustakis.

Someone: "Let's go to klub extreme!"
Me: "Let's not."

by oracle April 4, 2006

hamster it

To crash or lose control of a vehicle at very high speed.
From Richard Hammond (also known as 'hamster') of BBC Top Gear, who in 2006 crashed a jet car at around 300mph.

"160mph? Careful you don't hamster it, son"

by oracle October 7, 2006

lichfield

Shithole. Like the inside of George Bush's head (theres fuck all there).

We've been robbed! This lounge looks like Lichfield!!

by oracle December 17, 2004

op amp

Operational Amplifier. An entirely fictional device concieved to bring horror to electronics students.

Lecturer: This is how to analyse op-amps...
Class: Sigh

by Oracle March 11, 2004

jobs a goodun

See jobs a good'un.

Only seen it in print once, in Time Out London, and thats how it was spelled.

by oracle March 12, 2004