{adj}
Extremely successful.
Typically used to describe a movie, play, or other performance.
{noun}
1. A huge success; a smash hit
2. Star of the eponymous Mister Boffo cartoon strip
Origin: Probably a blend of box office. Or a varient of bóóffoo or boffola (I kid you not)
Extremely successful.
Typically used to describe a movie, play, or other performance.
{noun}
1. A huge success; a smash hit
2. Star of the eponymous Mister Boffo cartoon strip
Origin: Probably a blend of box office. Or a varient of bóóffoo or boffola (I kid you not)
by Mandingoe September 29, 2004
Get the boffomug. 1 macho posturing; a fat man's pissing contest
2 the opening manuvures in sumo wrestling
3 the opening manuvures in a dispute between an umpire and a baseball manager before he gets ejected
2 the opening manuvures in sumo wrestling
3 the opening manuvures in a dispute between an umpire and a baseball manager before he gets ejected
by mandingoe June 08, 2004
Get the belly bumpmug. 1. To deliberately produce something so bad it's good. Creating something genuinely campy would be the perfect shatnerization. While not quite as unachievable as exceeding the speed of light, perfect shatnerization is as difficult as bowling a perfect game.
(Note: This does not infer that Shatner's early musical works are deliberately campy. They do, however, set a standard.)
2. To parody yourself (a la William Shatner's commercials for Priceline).
(Note: This does not infer that Shatner's early musical works are deliberately campy. They do, however, set a standard.)
2. To parody yourself (a la William Shatner's commercials for Priceline).
The "How Berkley Can You Be" parade is a day for Berkleyites to shatnerize themselves.
Newsweek: Doesn't it bother you that your version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" is a camp classic?
William Shatner: ...yes, in the beginning it bothered methat people singled it out and poked fun at it. They didn't know what I was doing. The album, "The Transformed Man" is much more extensive than that song. But since people only heard that song, I went along with the joke.
Newsweek: Uhh...OK Bill.
Newsweek: Doesn't it bother you that your version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" is a camp classic?
William Shatner: ...yes, in the beginning it bothered methat people singled it out and poked fun at it. They didn't know what I was doing. The album, "The Transformed Man" is much more extensive than that song. But since people only heard that song, I went along with the joke.
Newsweek: Uhh...OK Bill.
by Mandingoe September 26, 2004
Get the shatnerizemug. by Mandingoe May 23, 2004
Get the cobainmug. 1. v. {Origin uncertain, but likely from the Spanish aguantar, to bear, endure, put up with + the colloquial no mo', no more} to be unable to bear; to find unacceptable, to refuse to endure for even one second longer.
2. n. {Origin uncertain, but in common use in Arabic-, Pashto-, and Urdu-speaking regions} a. a purgatory. An intermediate floor of hell. b. the mythical final place of confinement of the W and his court, immediately following the Great Upheaval but prior to the Grand Awakening and the Glorious Final Making Amends and Mellowing the Fuck Out Forever After of that nation.
3. n. a vast butterfly-and-wildflower preserve on the Caribbean island of Cuba.
alternate contraction: gitmo
—BEN EHRENREICH
2. n. {Origin uncertain, but in common use in Arabic-, Pashto-, and Urdu-speaking regions} a. a purgatory. An intermediate floor of hell. b. the mythical final place of confinement of the W and his court, immediately following the Great Upheaval but prior to the Grand Awakening and the Glorious Final Making Amends and Mellowing the Fuck Out Forever After of that nation.
3. n. a vast butterfly-and-wildflower preserve on the Caribbean island of Cuba.
alternate contraction: gitmo
—BEN EHRENREICH
Dick Cheney spent the last years of his life in an outdoor cell in the blazing sun of Guantanamo Bay being forced to listen to "Midnight at the Oasis" nonstop at high decibels. Like most chicken hawks, he didn't last long.
by mandingoe August 09, 2004
Get the Guantanamo Baymug. The number of teams with a chance of making it to the playoffs is dropping like a dotcom stock.
Variant: dropping like stock in Enron
Variant: dropping like stock in Enron
by mandingoe June 16, 2004
Get the dotcommug. Don't worry that you clueless and penniless, it's all good mon. Either you should worry less or I should smoke less bud.
by mandingoe July 16, 2003
Get the all goodmug.