Tendernob

San Francisco, California term for the area on the border between the economically depressed neighborhood of the Tenderloin and the upscale Nob Hill district. Provides striking juxtapositions of wealth and poverty. Often used with sexually suggestive implications.

I was at Geary and Leavenworth in the Tendernob when I saw some desperate girl climb into a stranger's Grand Cherokee.

by Leslie Doppler Hammond March 02, 2008

scieno

Derogatory term for a Scientologist.

Tom Cruise and John Travolta push that scieno crap.

by Leslie Doppler Hammond April 28, 2007

metroPOS

Colloquial term for the mobile-phone service provider metroPCS. The "POS" stands for "piece of shit", because of the notoriously poor service and support provided.

My cell phone company is metroPOS. So my calls are always getting dropped, I can't even use my phone outside a certain limited area, and I can't usually get connected to anyone at the so-called customer service line. If I have a real problem I have to go into the office in person. But it's relatively cheap, I don't have to sign any contract, and I get unlimited calling within the contiguous 48 states. Too bad my sister lives in Honolulu, so I have to text her and have her call me back when I want to talk to her.

by Leslie Doppler Hammond June 11, 2008

Merkin

Literally, a pubic wig. But on Usenet and other Net forums, a derisive UK and Commonwealth term for an American, caricaturing the pronunciation of "American" in some US English dialects. Plural sometimes given as "Merkinz".

UK user: "'Zucchini'? You Merkins can't get anything right, it's 'courgettes'."

US user: "Well, if we weren't around, who could you Brits possibly feel superior to?"

by Leslie Doppler Hammond March 18, 2008

aryan

According to a pre-WWII German Socialist/Communist political joke, the backside of a proletarian.

Those who boast of being Aryans are often lumpenproletarians.

by Leslie Doppler Hammond January 04, 2008