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An apocalyptic feeling or prediction that is characterized by or subject to whim; someone who issues predictions of a future apocalypse who is both impulsive and unpredictable.
"You know, the British doomsayer James Lovelock has some good ideas about climate change and global warming, but his ideas about breeding pairs of humans surviving in an uninhabited and desolate Arctic is completely over the top and apocapricious!"
-- Overheard at a pub in Cornwall, England
-- Overheard at a pub in Cornwall, England
by PRwiz101 May 24, 2009
Get the apocapricious mug.Joshua Quitter began a recent article in Time magazine about a Palm's Pre, profiling the man who created it, writing on June 15, 2009: "A few weeks ago, Jon Rubinstein
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"
by PRwiz101 July 3, 2009
Get the booking up a mountain mug.(n.) - Public relations spin that is put on a recent innovation and in the process putting media focus on the exact spin the company hopes to see its new product get
"Wow, if we can put the right spinnovation on the new e-reader we developed, we can leapfrog over the competition."
-- overheard at a watercool at a Silicon Valley computer firm
-- overheard at a watercool at a Silicon Valley computer firm
by PRwiz101 September 6, 2009
Get the spinnovation mug.A portmanteau word combining flattered and insulted; when you are both flattered and insulted by someone's remarks or actions
"Hey, I got a note today from a guy who fished my bestselling novel out of a garbage can in New York and told me he enjoyed reading it. Flattering? Insulting? I'm experiencing some mixed emotions. Maybe I've been flattersulted."
-- overheard at a watercooler outside a publisher's office in Manhattan, March 30, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler outside a publisher's office in Manhattan, March 30, 2010
by PRwiz101 April 1, 2010
Get the flattersulted mug.(n.) - The streetwise attitude of a prostitute, male or female; the attitude of a white collar worker who is about to prostitute himself or herself in order to try to get a promotion at work
"Damn, did you see the prostitude on that streetwalker at the corner of Lexington? She was reeking of it!"
"I hate to do this, but if I want that raise, I am going to have to steel myself and pose with some strong prostitude in the office next week!"
"I hate to do this, but if I want that raise, I am going to have to steel myself and pose with some strong prostitude in the office next week!"
by PRwiz101 October 6, 2009
Get the prostitude mug.(n.) - the print edition of the daily newspaper which arrives in the morning on your doorstep with news that is already old and stale by at least 12 hours
"I am sick and tired of reading the snailpaper edition of the New York Times! By the time it arrives, the front page is already old news. I much prefer reading the Times online website with the up-dated news as it happens."
-- overheard at a bar in the East Village in Manhattan, November 15, 2009
-- overheard at a bar in the East Village in Manhattan, November 15, 2009
by PRwiz101 November 21, 2009
Get the snailpaper mug.(verb) - To start masturbating but stop just before orgasm in order to practice self-discipline and save cosmic energy for next time
"My college roomate was liked to masturbrake as a way of building up his inner karma, saying it had something
to do with something he read in an Indian guru's book."
to do with something he read in an Indian guru's book."
by PRwiz101 February 7, 2014
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