bloopy's definitions

black

Slang for asphalt, a substance used to surface roads, paths, etc.

We took out some black and fixed all the potholes in town.

We'll need 10 square metres of black to fix that hole.

by Bloopy July 31, 2006

hyperventilate

What all the cool kids were doing at elementary school to render themselves unconscious.

Greg deliberately hyperventilated until he passed out, and all the other kids clapped and cheered.

by Bloopy April 9, 2005

duck tape

Duck tape is NOT a mispronounciation of duct tape. Duck tape is the original name of the tape from when it was first invented and used by the military. Only, when people started using duck tape to repair ducts, it got the name duct tape.

Duck tape sucks for repairing ducts because it falls off after a while. The officially recommended tape for repairing ducts is foil tape.

Duck tape is used in movies extremely often. A few examples:
- Panic Room
- American Pie: The Wedding
- Frailty

The comic boot error has a healthy obsession with duck tape!

by Bloopy April 1, 2006

spark up a monkey

A bizarre way for geeks to describe opening a terminal program on a computer, particularly on a Unix based computer where terminal programs are very common.

I'll spark up a monkey and type that command in to see if it makes a difference.

by Bloopy April 9, 2005

dogspeed

An expression used to wish someone success, good fortune, or a safe journey. Used as a non-religious alternative to Godspeed, especially by dog-lovers.

I wish you dogspeed on your trip Pete, and I'll be sure to look after your puppy while you're gone!

Sarah dropped her daughter off at school and bid her dogspeed for her biology exam.

by Bloopy November 25, 2009

Minnesota chrome

A nickname for duct tape. In the land of lakes, snow, road salt, and rusty cars, they use duct tape a lot more often than they visit the auto body shop.

There, patched my car door up with some Minnesota chrome, it's as good as new!

by Bloopy October 22, 2009

fundamentation

1. Taking something fundamental and applying it in practice. A combination of the words fundamental and implementation.

2. Taking something ordinary and making it fundamental.

The programmers completed fundamentation of their code before adding minor features and details on top.

The political party undertook some major fundamentation of their financial policies to gain support and show they had a solution when the markets were in crisis.

by Bloopy March 31, 2009