Octopod's definitions

contradiction

The opposite of argument. From a legendary Monty Python sketch.

That's not an argument, it's contradiction!
No it isn't!

by octopod November 9, 2003

perp walk

Practice of displaying an arrested person to the press and public while delivering the person to the courtroom, etc.

Giuliani arrested stockbrokers and took them on a "perp walk" when he could have arrange for them to surrender quietly.

by octopod November 19, 2003

titoi

"Fuck you" in Tahitian.

I asked him to lend me 10000 Polynesian francs. "Titoi, popa'a" said he.

by octopod October 7, 2004

long floater

A lengthy turd that don't sink.

I shat such a long floater that the toilet almost cloggged.

by Octopod November 6, 2003

tooney

A Canadian two-dollar coin. See looney.

He gave me a coin, no bills. I said "What's this?" "A tooney." Damned clever, these frostbacks.

by octopod November 23, 2003

hoi polloi

Namby-pamby phrase for the masses, or the great unwashed. Fr. Ancient Greek "the many." Saying "the hoi polloi" is an ineffictive attempt at literary snobbery

We read The Atlantic; hoi polloi read People.

by octopod June 12, 2004

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