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ski trash

The reality of ski bums... the cute name for these type of "professional" skiers who exist hand to mouth, mooching beers or bongs, living on other peoples couches... but have a really good time skiing over 100 times a season!
Half the people in this town on unemployment or washing dishes at night are ski trash.

Q. What do you call ski trash without a girlfriend?

A. Homeless
by Alpino March 15, 2010
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bobo

Short for "bourgeois bohemian" in fact another form of poser... pretending "acting" to be a dirtbag or grunge type, often in ski towns or outdoors activities areas - climbing, wind-surfing, kayaking, etc ... being the most hip, non-capitalist, vegan, supporter of causes. Often found in the hippest places in Latin America, Palestine, Africa, acting like the locals. When they are out of money and when the going gets rough they do not sell their truck or pawn their skis but go to the bank, discretely find their credit card or have their parents bail them out, supply an airline ticket or hospital bill. A covert "trustafarian"
She's not a dirtbag snowborder... she's a DuPont, a bobo...

You wait tables all summer; bobo there goes home to Cape Cod or Palo Alto.
by Alpino November 30, 2010
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electronic ritalin

electronic devices given to children - I-pods, cell phones, DVDs in cars, X-Box, Play Station, Nintendo, etc - to keep them quiet & busy - can range from a blessing to a curse
"Honey, did you bring the electronic ritalin? This is going to be a twelve hour drive"

"Yes the boys picked out a dozen DVDs and brought their I-Phone chargers"

"Now we can discuss every life issue in privacy and fall in love again"

"What do we do when the DVDs run out? Listen to their stories and fall in love with them again"
by Alpino August 5, 2012
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scarpa

an Italian infantryman or alpini, literally "a boot"

The Italian equivalent of the US Army "grunt"
Io sono un scarpa - I am a grunt
by Alpino November 6, 2009
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watch this

Something said right before a person does something amazingly stupid.

In the military it takes a quantum leap. with high explosives, high performance aircraft and situations that will get you killed in a heartbeat.

along with "based on my experience" "I've made a decision" "trust me" and "watch this"

It reaches another level if the MFer is smiling, chuckling or laughting.
The most dangerous thing in the US Army is a warrant officer AH-64 Apache pilot chuckling and saying "watch this"
by Alpino August 10, 2012
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government ski team

Someone who works all summer, and is on unemployment all winter, conveniently with a season ski pass. That is the whole idea...
guy 1 "Where does he work in the winter?"

guy 2 "He doesn't, he's on the government ski team."
by Alpino March 15, 2010
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veranda over the toy shop

slang from Oz... Australia, describing a big belly.
Crickey! he's got quite the veranda over the toy shop.
by Alpino July 28, 2010
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