Blue Cawdrey's definitions

Truncheon massage

England: The illegal or illicit beating of prisoners or suspects by members of a police force.

The four police officers were charged with giving Rodney King a truncheon massage.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004

Snotter

UK: Semi liquid detrious found in the nasal cavity of humans and other mammals often younger ones.

Mrs Snoddgrass realised that placing Johny at the back of the class was not going to work out either when she noticed him casually picking snotters from his nose and flicking them at the back of his classmates heads.

by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004

Cludge

A quick and dirty computer program cludged together to perform a temperory task, it is the usually thrown away afterwards.

Bills program was a cludge to send email while the main SMTP server was down for maintainence.
Not sure if this applies to Windows

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004

Snowball in hell

No chance: Similar in meaning to Fart in a Gale

That goalie has a snowball in hells chance of saving that penalty.

by Blue Cawdrey November 19, 2004

Lager Vouchers

Plural of Lager Voucher

Lager Vouchers arrive twice a month.

by Blue Cawdrey November 19, 2004

running on fumes

Describing a car or other form of transport that is running very low on fuel.

Also an euphimism for very tired.

1. Its lucky we found this garage, look at the fuel guage, we were running on fumes.

2. The runner finished the marathon but later said to reporters that towards the end that he was 'running on fumes'.

by Blue Cawdrey November 27, 2004

Skyhook

UK: Merchant Navy.
An unlikely tool that older ratings take a delight in sending junior inexperienced ratings to search for.

A variation is 'a tin of tartan paint'.

Bosun: Has anybody seen the deckboy?

AB: Uh yeh! we sent him to get the skyhook! :)

by Blue Cawdrey November 22, 2004