sylvy's definitions

Out the back of Bourke

Australian expression which means any place which is remote or inconvinient. Based on an actual place west NSW which is an extremely hot country town known for cotton farming and dust storms.

Where the hell is that place?

It's out the back of Bourke...

by sylvy September 24, 2006

the Commitments

Popular early 90s movie about a group of people from Dublin who start a band and experience some relief from their mundane and sometimes dismal lives. This movie had a very popular soundtrack.

Last night I watched the Commitments. It was full of Irish sterotypes but entertaining nonetheless.

by sylvy September 24, 2006

The Poo

Nickname for Mark Philapoussis a great, if inconsistent, tennis champion on the world circuit.

Did you see The Poo in the last set of that match?

by sylvy September 24, 2006

loop

n. Crazy person,psycho, can also indicate a stalker

I am screening this guys calls. He is some kind of loop.

by sylvy September 24, 2006

Tyra Banks

Surprisingly naive model/talk show host. Embarrassed herself trying to ilicit an apology from Naomi Campbell on the 'Tyra' show for supposedly being rude to her about 15 years ago. Tyra also suggested that Naomi was in part responsible for her retirement from modelling.

Tyra Banks can be quite silly

by sylvy September 24, 2006

jenny on the block

Crappy expressing/song coined by Jennifer Lopez which is a thinly veiled attempt to show poor teenagers in ghettos that she is (still) one of them so they will buy her music.

I'm still just Jenny on the Block

Yeah right!!

by sylvy September 24, 2006

complete

Add 'complete' to any adjective to make it more forceful, usually in a negative sense.

You are a complete fuck head!

It was a complete disaster.

by sylvy September 24, 2006