Harry Flashman's definitions

Afrocentrist

An ethnocentrist whose fixation happens to be things African.

An Afrocentrist excludes the significance of Albanian culture and its impact on Peruvian haiku much like the Sinocentrist does.

by harry flashman July 14, 2003

hermatile

Acting disproportionately crazy to a situation; running amok and generally reacting badly

Percival went hermatile when his tuna sandwich came up missing from the snack room refrigerator and had to be sedated and take a paid day off.

by harry flashman July 7, 2003

theology

The supporting rationale, doctrine, beliefs, tenets and written word that backs up and confirms what the voices in your head are telling you.

Leon didn't have any formal training in theology and figured he didn't need any, as God spoke to him and him alone and God was telling him that the big chested blonde girl in the second pew needed some laying on of the hands.

by harry flashman July 18, 2003

bumrush

What happens to a street punk and gansta wannabe in the shower on his first day in prison.

Jerome, aka: Killa-J, was gayly welcomed into the brotherhood of fellow inmates in a ceremony called bumrush.

by harry flashman July 17, 2003

casreped

Naval jargon for equipment that is inoperative.

The AN/SLQ-22(A)V(1) is casreped...it shit the bed last night on the midwatch....friggin' HPA and High Level TWT went out and took the O-1331 and HD-791 with it.

by harry flashman July 10, 2003

goof

A mistake or to make a mistake.

Sorry, that was a goof...it was a real .357 magnum round, not a .38 blank, I goofed...you want a tourniquet for that?

by harry flashman July 21, 2003

laissez-faire

Fr. Either a term meaning a policy of non-interference in economics or meaning an indolent homosexual.

Pierre, an economic adviser to the finance minister was going to propose a laissez-faire approach to the recession but was such a laissez-faire that he never got around to it.

by harry flashman July 7, 2003