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Beadie Bead 

The little knapps that grow down someone's neck when they are in need of a haircut, edge-up or line.
Martin told Pam, "You need to shave them buckshots, beadie bead! Them beadie beads is out of control girl!"
Beadie Bead by RolandIB October 10, 2008

Piss-bead 

Term invented at Reading festival 1998. Refers to when a gentleman fails to shake excess urine from his penis, instead putting his manhood back into his pants. As a result, urine dribbles through the pants onto the trousers in a circular/bead-like shape. Most noticeable on chino-style trousers.
" ere john, there's a fair few piss-beads on your strides"
Piss-bead by Tawdry quacks October 16, 2013

bead poop 

the tiny ceramic remnants that result from making the center hole in glass bead-making
Kathy was working all weekend on some new necklace creations and made a big pile of bead poop in the process. Looks like glitter.
bead poop by flyingdog April 25, 2008

glass bead game 

An activity or field of study so arcane and detached from, and with no application to, the real world that it is rendered absurd. E.g., theology, analytic/linguistic philosophy.

A waste of one's time.

Refers to the recondite game studied and played in the Herman Hesse novel, The Glass Bead Game.
Synonymous idiom: Ivory Tower
The theologians contemplating how many angels can fit on the head of a needle is mere glass bead game.

The study of astrology is a glass bead game.

Postmodernist philosophy is a glass bead game.

Don't waste my time with your Eco-feminist glass bead game.
glass bead game by Shawlatan September 1, 2014

Catholic girl Mardi Gras bead flash 

This is a variant of the standard Mardi Gras bead flash, in which the timid soul flashes her bra or bikini top for Mardi Gras beads.
My sister Heather was cowed by the nuns; consequently, she was only up to a Catholic girl Mardi Gras bead flash.

Mardi Gras bead flash 

A custom which originated in New Orleans, but has traveled easily elsewhere, where a young woman displays her boobs (breasts) for Mardi Gras glass bead necklaces.
Tomorrow is Mardi Gras: I will give a Mardi Gras bead flash with my exquisite minatures to the Burbocam as is my custom; after all, I am proud to be a New Orleanian and keep to our historical rights. Blank Katrina!