Octopod's definitions

cornuto

Cuckold, literally one who has "horns," the Latin symbol of cuckoldry. From the Italian.

Cornuto, get your stinkin' Fiat out of the intersection.

by octopod December 26, 2003

mensch

An upstanding, worthy, honorable adult person of either sex. Fr. German and Yiddish for "human being." Cf. Chinese jin, literally "man" but with similar meaning.

Be a mensch! Admit your mistake and make things good.

by Octopod November 8, 2003

Don't try this at home

Anything that's fun or dangerous, from the lawyer warnings on TV commercials. See professional driver on closed course.

Look, he's skateboarding on top of a 767!

Don't try this at home.

by octopod July 11, 2004

Singes capitulards bouffeurs de fromage

Frog for cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

A dozen gross white flags for the Bastille Day parade. Oui, oui, pour les singes capitulards bouffeurs de fromage.

by octopod November 23, 2003

Breck Girl

Rush Limbaugh's nickname for the dramatically coiffed Sen. John Edwards. Cf. dreck.

The French-looking John Kerry and the Breck Girl came in first and second in Iowa.

by octopod January 24, 2004

phone it in

Perform an act in a perfunctory, uncommitted fashion, as if it didn't matter.

She sang the National Anthem, but she was just phoning it in as far as I could tell.

by octopod November 8, 2003

whip it out

Pull out one's penis, cock, virile member without further ado.

So ya say ya want some head. Whip it out, buster!

by Octopod November 6, 2003