al-in-chgo's definitions
Britishism for a public-address or loudspeaker system, a use of a corporate name as generic, like the American "Coke machine" or "Kleenex". Derived from TANtalum allOY, the Tannoy company builds loudspeakers and high-end audio speakers and is still in business.
"Where are you going, Mac?"
"Didn't you hear? They came over the tannoy five minutes ago and said we'd be closing early on account of Christmas Eve."
"Didn't you hear? They came over the tannoy five minutes ago and said we'd be closing early on account of Christmas Eve."
by al-in-chgo December 19, 2014
Get the tannoymug. Literary slang for "came" (or "cummed")," or "had orgasm." The anti-hero in Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (played by Malcolm McDowell in the movie) 'broke and spattered' at the end of intercourse.
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"So I was doing my girlfriend, and I had been humping away for about half an hour -- "
"Dude, you have great discipline. I would have broke and spattered after five minutes!"
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"So I was doing my girlfriend, and I had been humping away for about half an hour -- "
"Dude, you have great discipline. I would have broke and spattered after five minutes!"
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by al-in-chgo March 12, 2010
Get the Broke and Spatteredmug. Scanlation, from SCAN (or 'SCANned') + transLATION, is the unauthorized translation of a foreign graphic novel, usually Japanese yaoi or other sexually explicit work, from Japanese into English. Typically the scanlator scans the hardcopy text into a computer, and electronically whites out the Japanese characters in the thought balloons to replace them with English text.
Illegality is the essence of scanlation, as opposed to authorized translations in which rights are granted, royalties scheduled, and chain of intellectual property is maintained. Many scanlators will argue that the more erotic or hardcore types of manga (yaoi, bara maga) are rarely translated into English, and that even a Japanese best-seller can sit untranslated for years. (Example: the graphic novels of Gengorah Tagame, like his three-volume PRIDE, which has as subject matter the training of a novice in BSDM techniques and includes very explicit sexual language and images, and scenes of torrture.)
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Illegality is the essence of scanlation, as opposed to authorized translations in which rights are granted, royalties scheduled, and chain of intellectual property is maintained. Many scanlators will argue that the more erotic or hardcore types of manga (yaoi, bara maga) are rarely translated into English, and that even a Japanese best-seller can sit untranslated for years. (Example: the graphic novels of Gengorah Tagame, like his three-volume PRIDE, which has as subject matter the training of a novice in BSDM techniques and includes very explicit sexual language and images, and scenes of torrture.)
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-- "I'm reading a scanlation of a Japanese 'bear-loving-bear' manga."
-- "Is it any good?"
-- "Definitely gets the plot points across, though sometimes the English is a little sketchy. The scanlator uses spellings like "colour" and "honor" so it's probably someone from the British Commonwealth or perhaps a Japanese person who learned English using English spellngs. No way of telling, really, their blogs don't have to say where they live or what they do."
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-- "Is it any good?"
-- "Definitely gets the plot points across, though sometimes the English is a little sketchy. The scanlator uses spellings like "colour" and "honor" so it's probably someone from the British Commonwealth or perhaps a Japanese person who learned English using English spellngs. No way of telling, really, their blogs don't have to say where they live or what they do."
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by al-in-chgo April 7, 2010
Get the Scanlationmug. Sexually speaking, it's a man who "dribbles" before he "shoots." That is, when fully aroused and ready to come, he is generous with driblets of pre-ejaculatory fluid ("pre-cum"), sometimes followed by dribbled semen (the beginning of ejaculation), before the main orgasm kicks in, causing him to spurt semen (he "shoots").
There is nothing wrong with this sequence of events; in fact, it's quite normal.
There is nothing wrong with this sequence of events; in fact, it's quite normal.
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"Algernon and I were upstairs last night fooling around and I found out the hard way that he's a basketball player."
"So what was he doing so close to your hoop, anyway?"
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"Algernon and I were upstairs last night fooling around and I found out the hard way that he's a basketball player."
"So what was he doing so close to your hoop, anyway?"
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by al-in-chgo March 6, 2010
Get the basketball playermug. A Latin and Italian word regarding male oral sex that is frequently confused with the more commonly used "fellare." "Irrumare" (person who does the act is an 'irrumator') refers to the person who offers the penis for sucking. The person who gives head (takes the penis into his or her mouth) is the 'fellator,' from "fellare". Modern terms like "sucker/suckee" or "bottom/top" don't cover the distinction so well.
by al-in-chgo May 27, 2011
Get the irrumaremug. Franticky is a combination of FRANTIC + PANICKY. It describes a situation in which a person is in a desperate hurry to do something, escape from a situation, etc., but whose efforts don't work because the panicked nature of his/her mood makes focus and resolve impossible.
"June, the phone bill is right here under your nose. You'd have found if if you hadn't been blindly riffling through the papers, all franticky."
by al-in-chgo March 5, 2010
Get the frantickymug. .
An athletic supporter, such as a jockstrap or a plastic cup, that protects the male genitals ("junk") against impact or injury.
An athletic supporter, such as a jockstrap or a plastic cup, that protects the male genitals ("junk") against impact or injury.
by al-in-chgo March 8, 2010
Get the junk armormug.