Harry Flashman's definitions

sack up

To gather up one's courage for a daunting task.

Sargeant Bohannon shrieked at Private Entwhistle, "Sack up, you panty-wearing dipstick...bayonet practice may save your life...now lunge, thrust, stick and twist...repeat...

by harry flashman July 28, 2003

Serbia

One of the few non-collaborationist countries in the Balkans during World War II, offered stiff resistance to the Nazi's and paid a dear price for it.

Serbia lost its moral high ground over its neighbors after the break up of Yugoslavia.

by harry flashman July 25, 2003

pisser

A word used in mock earnest to indicate grave misfortune.

I read in the Boston Globe that Senator Kennedy has a prostate the size of a grapefruit...now ain't that a pisser!

by harry flashman August 1, 2003

trusay

What the French say to the German army when it invades.

Mon ami...trusay?

by harry flashman July 12, 2003

lotto

An idiot's 401k.

Thelma put her money in a high risk, aggressive investment even though she knew that 85 year old Haitians in this country illegally usually won the lotto, she didn't know of any other fiduciary instrument that paid such a high rate of return.

by harry flashman August 12, 2003

slope

A ratio of distance to rise, a grade or an angle.

We knew Curtis was off his medication when he ordered $500,000 worth of 21"X15" Bitumenous Coated Corregated Metal pipe Mitered End Sections with a 12:1 slope.

by harry flashman July 17, 2003

isoholes

A group of people similar to, alike, equal to and identical to assholes.

I visited France once in 1991, it is populated with isoholes.

by harry flashman August 3, 2003