Boss Brian's definitions

meantor

A mentor-worthy person in one's life whose example has been regrettably ignored. A could-have-been/should-have-been mentor. Someone you meant to follow as your mentor.

My father was my meantor. He was a worthy man who led a good life. I, on the other hand, have led a thoroughly slovenly, worthless life and have ignored my father's example at every turn.

by Boss Brian August 20, 2009

talk off

to abruptly end a telephone conversation by ceasing to talk and hanging up the phone

"I was having a perfectly civil telephone conversation with Maria and she had the nerve to just talk off. That bitch!"

by Boss Brian June 23, 2009

thumb dancing

The highly concentrated act of manipulating ones thumbs adroitly to tap out messages on a Blackberry.

All that thumb dancing going on these days on the streets of Manhattan clog up the foot traffic as much as the gawker tourists do.

by Boss Brian June 18, 2009

conflabration

A cynical celebration of a disastrous human event

Osama Bin Laden held a conflabration in honor of the fall of The Twin Towers.

by Boss Brian May 4, 2009

BIO

A "bad Idol outcome"; when the wrong contestant gets the boot or gets an undeserved reprieve on American Idol

It was a BIO when Chris Daughtry lost the Idol competition to Taylor Hicks.

by Boss Brian May 7, 2009

glitteracy

total confidence in putting together glittery, flashy, over-the-top fashion ensembles

Dolly Parton is the master of glitteracy.

by Boss Brian May 4, 2009

pathetic

A sorry, exhausted, frustrated state of mind, self-inflicted as the result of an obsession with beating one's own score in Facebook's Pathwords game

"It's 6:00 in the morning and you've already played 10 rounds of Pathwords. You're Pathetic!"

by Boss Brian July 12, 2009