harry flashman's definitions

cammie up

To dress up in stealthy outer garments in order to minimize your visibility and to maximize your blending in with your surroundings.

Hey Jeff...if Hillary gets elected to the presidency we need to cammie up and join the militia.

by harry flashman July 6, 2003

sack up

To gather up one's courage for a daunting task.

Sargeant Bohannon shrieked at Private Entwhistle, "Sack up, you panty-wearing dipstick...bayonet practice may save your life...now lunge, thrust, stick and twist...repeat...

by harry flashman July 28, 2003

pisser

A word used in mock earnest to indicate grave misfortune.

I read in the Boston Globe that Senator Kennedy has a prostate the size of a grapefruit...now ain't that a pisser!

by harry flashman August 1, 2003

Mondo

A time-share condo.

Prunella went to Miami and stayed in her cousin's mondo.

by harry flashman September 18, 2003

nosepicker

A military officer who is a graduate of his or her respective service academy.

It wasn't LCDR Schmedlapp's leadership skills that identified her as a nosepicker...it was the USNA ring two fingers down from the one buried up to the second knuckle in her nose.

by harry flashman July 12, 2003

nunya

What happens to misbehaving Catholic boys and girls in schools run by nuns.

Sister Agnes is gonna nunya for talking dirty.

by harry flashman July 10, 2003

Gurl

A Naval officer with the 1100 code in the General UnRestricted Line (GURL), doesn't have a warfare specialty, doesn't serve at sea and consequently attracts personnel who would otherwise have made a career in the postal service.

My JAG lawyer thought it was important to get a GURL on the courts-martial board so that I could get acquitted.

by harry flashman July 13, 2003