Harry Flashman's definitions

criminy

Mild blasphemy meaning "for Christs sake"

Oh criminy, I haven't taken my depro-provara for two weeks.

by harry flashman July 11, 2003

gnude

To recall prior knowledge of.

Orville gnude he'd seen her before...maybe she'd been a centerfold or sumthing.

by harry flashman August 2, 2003

deadbeat dad

An irresponsible father who hasn't the decency to do his moral, legal and ethical duty to support his child or at least to offer token payments of child support according to what he can afford or explain why not and what his plan is to make it up in the future.

I wish my former son-in-law wasn't a deadbeat dad and that the next time he wanted to get a body piercing he'd send that money to his son.

by harry flashman July 8, 2003

apparatchik

An unquestioningly loyal female subordinate in the Democratic Party.

Susan McDougal and Monica Lewinsky were apparatchiks, one went down for a crime the other went down.

by harry flashman July 19, 2003

Chops

The main component in crown rack of lamb.

I had the best lamb chops at Bozart's in Brisbane.

by harry flashman July 25, 2003

all over it

A variation of the phrase "on it", e.g., ...on it like a fly on shit, ...on it like white on rice.

The last time I made a math error the IRS was all over it like a duck on a junebug.

by harry flashman July 14, 2003

democracy

Great governmental system, doomed to fail once the masses figure out that with their vote they can loot the treasury.

Alex D'Toqueville, some Frog who toured and chronicled America, pointed out about 180 years ago the fatal flaw of democracy.

by harry flashman July 12, 2003