Fizzle 's definitions

lobby

1. v. i. To pay politicians under the table to get them to be more agreeable to your employer's point of view, be it for or against something.
2. n. A particular group of people who engage in lobbying, e.g. the gun lobby. see also lobbyist.

I am a lobbyist who lobbies against the lobby lobby.

by fizzle April 15, 2004

damage

n. The total of a bill in a place of business, usually when the bill is large. Probably came from the situation where someone wrecks the place and offers to pay for any damage.

Patron: What's the damage?
Waiter: Three bills.

by fizzle April 10, 2004

slam dunk

1. The high-percentage shot in basketball. Performed by stuffing the ball down through the rim, and generally done with some force. Can be done in a number of creative ways. Sometimes shortened to just dunk.
2. a sure thing, even money, in the bag
3. what they said

1. Shaq did a slam dunk, hung on the rim, and shattered the glass.
2. Don't worry about it; it's a slam dunk!
3. same as above

by fizzle April 10, 2004

elephant in the room

n. A very large issue that everyone is acutely aware of, but nobody wants to talk about. Perhaps a sore spot, perhaps politically incorrect, or perhaps a political hot potato, it's something that no one wants to touch with a ten foot pole. Sometimes pink elephant in the room.

The degeneration of parental responsibility in this country is the elephant in the room, but no one in Washington wants to address it.

by fizzle April 15, 2004

number two

n. defecation

I gotta go do a number two.

by fizzle April 1, 2004

hell bent

adj. Bound and determined; cannot be dissuaded by logic or reason.

Al-Qaeda was hell bent on crashing those planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

by fizzle March 27, 2004

industrial strength

1. adj. Higher quality than normal
2. adj. More powerful than normal

see weapons grade

Don't make me open up a can of industrial strength whoopass!

by fizzle March 27, 2004