A tightly fitting, brightly-colored bodysuit of Japanese fetish origin, which extends from the top of the head to the fingertips and toes.
by Michael Zeleny February 11, 2004

Boards bearing the logo S.W.I.S.S. can be found in the back rooms of Verizon stores across the U.S.A.
by Michael Zeleny January 26, 2008

Designation as a Sub-Human Piece Of Shit, applied by medical personnel in hospitals to their less-than-desirable patients.
In an article published in Values, Ethics, and Health Care, 5 (1980), pp. 226-228, Harold Schwartz attests that S.H.P.O.S. is "an acronym for 'subhuman piece of shit' applied by medical interns and residents to their most unpleasant and uncooperative patients."
by Michael Zeleny January 27, 2008

Ambulatory locomotion of the recipient of the bum's rush, involuntarily emulating a Flamenco dancer by dint of being simultaneously propelled forward and elevated at the seat of one's pants with one hand, and the scruff of one's neck with another. The expression recalls the supposed "custom of pirates, in the Spanish Main, of forcing prisoners wo walk while holding them by the neck so that their toes barely touched the deck." (Robert L. Chapman)
...and every Thursday night the hotel has a bloody cabaret in the bar, featuring a tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some bloated fat tart with her hair brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners.
-- Monty Python's Flying Circus
-- Monty Python's Flying Circus
by Michael Zeleny February 11, 2004

by Michael Zeleny January 27, 2008

A term of disparagement applied to a literary critic, implying the character traits of an overeducated shithead. Usually tarred with the postmodern brush as "pomo lit-critter".
"Dang! We are beset by lit-critters! Let loose toxic sarcasm!"
"Bill Clinton did his turn as a pomo lit-critter by testifying on the ambiguity of the word 'is'."
"Bill Clinton did his turn as a pomo lit-critter by testifying on the ambiguity of the word 'is'."
by Michael Zeleny December 19, 2006

A skirt patterened after the blue & white checkered napkin material favored by the lady on the "Aunt Jemima" Pancake Box.
THING-FISH:
(pointing to his skirt)
(Fo' those of you unfamiliar wit de' nakkin,
Dis be de nakkin'!)
Frank Zappa, Thing-Fish
(pointing to his skirt)
(Fo' those of you unfamiliar wit de' nakkin,
Dis be de nakkin'!)
Frank Zappa, Thing-Fish
by Michael Zeleny February 11, 2004
