Octopod's definitions

dead tree media

Newspapers and magazines, as opposed to talk radio and the Blogosphere.

I picked up the Times in the bus station the other day. Nothing in that dead tree media!

by octopod April 20, 2006

juvie

Juvenile hall; children's prison

He was driving a Porsche, not his own, with three joints in his pocket. Guess what? They sent him to juvie for six months.

by Octopod November 9, 2003

mulatress

Female offspring of a white and a black. Fem. of mulatto

The late Sen. Strom Thurmond's daughter (by the family maid) is a mulatress.

by octopod July 5, 2004

fiat money

Money that is only money because some government says that it is.

There's no gold or silver backing greenbacks.

by octopod January 16, 2004

not enough popcorn

I don't have time to tell the story--it's too long, say, movie length.

"So how come you got divorced?"
"Not enough popcorn."

by octopod October 18, 2008

highbrow

Pretentious, snobbish, intellectual or pseudo-int. See lowbrow.

"Your best girl friend
She might be a highbrow,
Changing clothes three times a day . . ."
-- Sippie Wallace

by Octopod November 4, 2003

ashes hauled

Relief from sexual tension. Getting laid, getting off.

Mandy, I need to get my ashes hauled. Can you help me?

by Octopod November 8, 2003