Downstrike's definitions

borrowed time

Mortgaged your home to buy a Rolex.

Seriously, it means to live beyond your life expectancy.

Some of my hard drives used to be in 486es, so they're living on borrowed time.

by Downstrike November 3, 2006

NiDE

1. Acronym for Non-informative Design Element. Pronounced, NI-dee. Used by some webmasters as a place-keeper Alt attribute to satisfy persnickety, Accessibility-obsessed busybodies who think that every blasted image tag has to have an Alt attribute.

2. nide, (rhymes with hide): A nest or brood of pheasants.

1. A single-pixel, transparent GIF, used as a spacer, wasn't meant to convey information, but the Accessibility purists insist that it must have an Alt attribute, so we type, NiDE, as the attribute.

2. Are you a hunter or not? Go ahead and blast that nide!

by Downstrike September 3, 2005

blood-sucker

A parasite. One who uses others.

I'm not that blood-sucker's friend! He doesn't have friends, just distant acquaintances and people that he's used up.

by Downstrike December 24, 2004

customs

1. Habitual practices, including religious rituals.

2. Where smugglers get arrested.

I could get arrested in customs for smuggling books about religious customs into a country where atheism is the state religion.

by Downstrike May 24, 2004

corporation

An entity that remains free to continue to do as it damn well pleases after being convicted of criminal activity that would have been a capital offense if an individual had committed it.

Corporations have more rights than people do.

by Downstrike June 5, 2004

legal

A one-word oxymoron, when it comes to the profession called "legal".

See attorney, legislator, and conflict of interest.

by Downstrike September 13, 2004

coolies

Literally, a blatant, presumably intentional misspelling of the improperly plural adverb form of cool, coolly.

1. Like being cool, only more so.

2. Used as adj.; cool, only more so.

3. n. An oriental ethnic group; reknown in the western U.S. for working in near-slavery conditions to do the hard part of building the first trans-continental railroad.

4. n. An offensive racial, (see race), slur against oriental people.

1. No known example of usage.

2-3. After the coolies finished the project, it must have been real coolies to have a trans-continental railroad.

4. I doubt they ever let the coolies ride on it.

by Downstrike May 26, 2004