belly whomps

Excersizes in which players alternately run in place and low themselves to the ground in pushup form.

The team did a minute of warm-up excersizes, jumping jacks, and belly whomps to get them loose.

by Morgan T November 10, 2006

creodont

Small, primitive, flesh-eating mammal.

Take a seat in his bathroom an you found yourself facing the faintly smirking skull of Doris, a prehistoric creodont.

by Morgan T November 10, 2006

Rara avis

An unusual or extraordinary person or thing; rarity; literally, "strange bird."

A sweet haze veiled the sunset: cherries roasting in the Maricopas. He whispered, "Rara avis."

by Morgan T November 10, 2006

disdainful

to be full of scorn of contempt.

His disdainful attitude reflected his unhappiness at losing his job.

by Morgan T November 10, 2006

oratorical

Relating to one distinguished for skill and power as a public speaker.

After participating on the debate team for three years, I decided to partake in an oratorical contest.

by Morgan T November 10, 2006

Paleocene

Relating to the earliest epoch of the Tertiary or the corresponding system of rocks; period of great development of primitive mammals.

She's as real as"-he looked around; he picked up the tiny, wedgelike skull of Barney, a 60-million-year-old Paleocene rodent, and held it up-"as real as Barney."

by Morgan T November 10, 2006

bafflement

confusing or puzzling.

He was in complete bafflement over who this new girl was trying to be.

by Morgan T November 10, 2006