brap's definitions

backburner

a place where you put things you don't have time/money for or have otherwise abandoned.
origin: an urban fire escape where you go and get a sunburn on your back.

you don't have room for that in your life, you'd better put it on the back burner

by brap February 5, 2005

PEBTAC

Term used by system administrators and help desk technicians when an internal customer has a problem that no amount of technical/technological "fixing" will resolve. Stands for "Problem Exists Between Terminal and Chair"

IT Manager: The VP of Marketing needs help with his mouse again.
Help Desk: Well, we already replaced it with a newer model and updated the driver. This is obviously a case of PEBTAC.

by brap March 30, 2009

kick it old school

To "kick it" in the way to which one was once accustomed.

We should kick it old school, you know, the way we used to do.

by brap April 3, 2010

back burner

1. a place where you put things you don't have time/money for or have otherwise abandoned.
origin: an urban fire escape where you go and get a sunburn on your back.

"you don't have room for that in your life, you'd better put it on the back burner"

by brap February 5, 2005

4:20

1. The time to get high as adopted by marijuana culture.
2. A way of mentioning marijuana in the presence of authority figures so as not to get caught.

Perhaps the most compelling source of 4:20 is the time of day an H.P. Lovecraft character cites for having become sober after succumbing to the intoxication of a "mirage-plant":

"I had encountered at least one of those curious mirage-plants about which so many of our men told stories. Anderson had warned me of them, and described their appearance very closely—the shaggy stalk, the spiky leaves, and the mottled blossoms whose gaseous dream-breeding exhalations penetrate every existing make of mask...Although everything was spinning perilously, I tried to start in the right direction and hack my way ahead. My route must have been far from straight, for it seemed hours before I was free of the mirage-plant's pervasive influence. Gradually the dancing lights began to disappear, and the shimmering spectral scenery began to assume the aspect of solidity. When I did get wholly clear I looked at my watch and was astonished to find that the time was only 4:20. Though eternities had seemed to pass, the whole experience could have consumed little more than a half-hour."

by brap June 5, 2005

kindlike

1. (adv.) in a kind manner

2. (n.) something of the same variety (similar, belongs in the same category)as a subject. (of the "like" of subj.'s kind)

1. He done asked me real kindlike if'n I's been sleepin on the job.

2. I have yet to try the drug 2cb or its kindlike.

by brap June 5, 2005

nouveau riche

A pejorative term for one who has recently become rich and who spends money conspicuously. From French, meaning "new rich."

Gupta chromed out on his 87 volvo? Man, that guy is so nouveau riche!

by brap October 24, 2004