al-in-chgo's definitions

Papadaddy

1. Traditionally, a Southern USA expression for a grandfather, probably from "Papa's Daddy."

2. By extension, a traditionally masculine (non-Metrosexual) man who plays a "Daddy" role emotionally, sexually or financially.

-- "Who's that man I saw you with at the cafeteria? He's old enough to be your father."

-- "Dear heart, he's almost old enough to be my grandfather and I am just lovin' it! Papadaddy! Papadaddy!"

by al-in-chgo June 7, 2017

GOP

1) Traditional nickname of Republican party, short for "Grand Old Party."

2) More recently, slang for a pizza topped with pepperoni, onion and green pepper.

(G=Green pepper; O=Onion; P=Pepperoni.)

-- "You should stay, I just ordered a GOP and there'll be plenty of food."

-- "I didn't know they made house calls. What do you mean?"
-- "A GOP is a pizza topped with green pepper, onion, and pepperoni."

-- "I'd love to share, if a political agnostic is allowed to partake."

by al-in-chgo June 10, 2017

Murse

A Male nURSE. Often used within the industry to refer to nurses who are male.

"Joe doesn't like the term "male nurse"; he says it's old-fashioned."

"So what then?"

"Murse."

by al-in-chgo May 14, 2016

the tick-tock

Informal American journalese for a detailed chronology of events.

"We don't know the tick-tock of those (scandalous) events yet." ~ Chuck Todd, MEET THE PRESS, February 11, 2018.

by al-in-chgo May 5, 2018

circumbendibus

Amusing fake Latin, in use since the late Eighteenth Century.

"I'm not going to argue with you any more! We're just going 'round and 'round, and I won't get on that circumbendibus again!"

by al-in-chgo February 12, 2018

honey badger

A vicious and very hardy feral animal that can withstand attacks, stings, and even snake bites yet keeps on killing and eating. Metaphorically, an assistant or political operative who takes a similar "no-holds-barred" approach and is always on the attack despite attacks and reprisals.

"Official Washington and its counterparts around the globe are struggling to understand just how much the honey badgers are now running the show." - TIME magazine, 13 February 2017

by al-in-chgo February 4, 2017

horses and bayonets

Barack Obama's flippant reponse to Mitt Romney's complaint during their third televised debate (October 22, 2012) that the U.S. Navy had fewer battleships than at any time since 1917. Obama's remark that the military has fewer "horses and bayonets, too" makes an analogy that measuring battleships (as opposed to aircraft carriers) is an archaic metric of military power, in much the same way that measuring "horses and bayonets" would no longer indicate an army's might. (NB: Marines are still issued bayonets.)

"The Navy has fewer battleships than at any time since 1917."

"The military has fewer horses and bayonets, too. We live in a different world."

by al-in-chgo October 23, 2012