Definitions by Uncle Dimma

batten the hatches 

a) (original meaning) : among fishermen in North America: on a vessel, especially vessels dedicated to winter time lobster and crab fishing, to close all entrances to the lower decks and crew cabins when you are in a storm

b) (my new and improved meaning): in Atlantic Canada and New England, a term meaning, in cities such as New York, Boston, Montreal, Halifax, to insulate the doors and windows of one's house for the winter months.

if you want to properly hibernate, be prepared to batten the hatches definition b), even if it costs a small fortune.

batten the hatches by Uncle Dimma December 9, 2014

swick

(verb): to inhale on a joint once it's gone out

to swick is even worse IMHO than to relight someone's unfinished cancer stick and start smoking that. you can only swick, if the joint was originally yours.

swick by Uncle Dimma December 9, 2014

storage-wars 

a) a meaningless verbal conflict between two individuals over a locker/storage space belonging to neither of them.

b) when you are dumped out and you are in a race to find a cheap self storage facility for your belongings

c) (parodying a reality TV show of the same name): a verbally aggressive auction bid for the contents of a storage locker belonging to a person who can longer rent the locker.

If you are in a storage-wars definition a) you are doing something stupid; first figure out who the storage space belongs to. if definition b) applies to you, what is to Louis XIV if you are dumped out; finding storage a storage space for your belongings is now your problem.

storage-wars by Uncle Dimma December 9, 2014

colorist 

(a combination of the words colored and racist): (off): a non-white person who is a racist towards whites.

a colorist should also be considered a racist, even if not currently defined as such by the UN

colorist by Uncle Dimma December 8, 2014

on-the-side 

a) humorous, someone's sidekick

b) (very offensive): someone's mistress or lover.

I'd rather have an on-the-side definition a) than an on-the-side definition b)

on-the-side by Uncle Dimma December 8, 2014

to knife-jack 

( named after Jack the Ripper : to take hostage, kidnap, threaten, rape, or sodomize someone at knife point

Nobody knows to this day if Jack the RIpper tried to knife-jack his victims or if he used more subtle forms of psychological manipulation on them before killing them.

to knife-jack by Uncle Dimma December 8, 2014

Pauline Marois 

an eccentric, ethnocentric and somewhat xenophobic Quebec, Canada politician suffering from Severe Anachronistic History Syndrome

Pauline Marois, despite having intelligent ideas based on historically correct observations, probably won't be able to implement her ideas, because people in the Quebec government more historically enlightened than her understand that she suffers from Severe Anachronistic History Syndrome

Pauline Marois by Uncle Dimma December 8, 2014