Creedmoor's definitions

Retromingent

Urinating backwards. Also an animal such as a raccoon that urinates backwards. From the Latin retro- (back) + mingent from mingere (to urinate).

"You have revealed yourself as a miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante, and I for one am sick of wasting my time communicating with you" (Benjamin C. Bradlee, Editor, The Washington Post).

by creedmoor December 28, 2005

Mama Luke

Loser. Bum. Italian term made popular in Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull."

Jake: "Look how they're making me look. Like the Mama Luke of the year!"

by creedmoor June 11, 2006

Creedmoor

A state of mind. A lovely facility in New York where one can go and blissfully rock back and forth in your own feces.

"I need to be sentenced to a month in the klink at Creedmoor for a mental tune-up."

by creedmoor October 11, 2004

cockamamie

Adj.: Crazy, Off-kilter. A word you use when you can't think of the proper terminology.

"This cockamamie washing machine never works properly."

by creedmoor October 11, 2004

fishstick

Schoolyard terminology for a tampon.

"Hey, Sally. You got any fishsticks in you purse?"

by creedmoor October 11, 2004

Pinners

A poor-man's version of alley baseball usually played with two people. One player bounces a ball on the ground and against a wall. It is up to the other player to catch the ball. If he catches it, the pitcher is out. Runs are determined by how far the ball flies without it being caught.

"After camp today do you want to go behing the supermarket and play pinners?"

by creedmoor October 13, 2004

Diarrhea of Anne Frank

And the "Jeopardy" answer is: "What's brown and runs in the attic?"

Q: What smells worse than Gomer's pile?
A: The diarrhea of Anne Frank.

by creedmoor August 15, 2006