Definitions by Anarcissie

showdown 

(noun) conclusive encounter or contest. From poker, where at the termination of betting the hands of the players who are still in the game are laid on the table and compared to determine the winner. Also used metaphorically. Sometimes "throwdown" is used with this meaning.

"After several weeks of random threats and skirmishes, the two gangs met in the parking lot of Kresge's for a showdown."

showdown by anarcissie May 28, 2008

round pound 

(noun) another term for circle jerk.

"Those prep-school boys were having a round pound when the housemaster burst in. They were petrified (except for their dicks) but he just wanted to join in."

round pound by anarcissie May 28, 2008

post-post 

(adv) beyond postmodern; exceedingly or terminally hip. Often used ironically.

"You're so post-post, why don't you go deconstruct your mother's combat boots?"

post-post by anarcissie May 28, 2008

take gas 

(verb) to die. As an imperative, equal to "fuck off and die" or "drop dead".

"When Joe suggested I do his work for him I told him to take gas."

take gas by anarcissie May 28, 2008

hang 

(verb) of a computer or other machine, or a set of them: to stop functioning in the middle of a job or operation, to enter a suspended state, especially unexpectedly and without giving any indication of the cause.

"Morris's message ordered each receiving machine to send out a dozen like it, causing the whole network to hang."

"My computer mysteriously hangs every morning at 9:30."

hang by anarcissie May 28, 2008

hardcore 

(adjective and noun) In reference to a political or cultural movement, an organization, an association, or a category of criminal. crime, deviance or dissidence: the essential and dedicated members or actions who will not be dissuaded by threats or punishment and who will go all the way in pursuit of their aims; those who hang tough; winter soldier. Sometimes spelled as two words. Often the kind of thing is understood, for example "hardcore" instead of "hardcore porn".

"Hardcore pornography."

"Al-Qaeda's hard core will not be dissuaded by the bombing of the communities in which they are based."

"Sacco was a hardcore anarchist; he never wavered in his professed beliefs, even when they put him in jail and condemned him to death."

"After the cops visited the commune the day-trippers left and only the hardcore people remained."

hardcore by anarcissie May 21, 2008

winter soldier

(noun) A person, especially a member of a political party or a military organization, who is hardcore, who endures during hard times. The opposite of "summer soldier", a phrase used by Thomas Paine to denote (and mock) men who signed up for the Revolutionary War and then quit when the going got tough.

"Most of that outfit quit, but the winter soldiers are still hanging on."

winter soldier by anarcissie May 21, 2008