PRwiz101's definitions

Taiwan stop

v. To fail to stop at a red light at night in Taiwan, even though the red light does signify "stop".

"After I went through the red light at night, I got ticketed for a Taiwan stop."

by PRwiz101 April 7, 2009

teasewich

(n.) -- A convenience store sandwich that looks like it is stuffed with fillings, from the outside view on the shelf, but once you open the plastic wrapping, the sad truth becomes evident that you've been had.

''I just hate it when I plunk down good cold cash for what I think is going to be a big tuna sandwich, but when I open the wrapping, it's just a teasewich, and there's hardly anything inside the bread! They just use the mouth of the sandwich as a come on!"

by PRwiz101 August 8, 2011

screengrab

(n.) -- An image taken from a computer screen or homepage and duplicating it on a newspaper or magazine page (grabbing the image from the screen)

"That YouTube video image in the newspaper today was a screengrab, that's how the editors got it, off the computer screen."

-- overheard in a newsroom at a newspaper in New York, July 3, 1999

by PRwiz101 March 10, 2010

generation gasp

(n.) -- the sighing sound one hears on both sides of the generation gap when one side says something the other side just doesn't quite agree with

"You know, every time I talk to my dad, he says a few things that just bother the heck out of me, and I know it's just the generation gap rearing its proverbial head again. It happens so often now, but of course always in a friendly way between younger daughter and older father, that it's more like a generation gasp these days, than a generation gap!"

by PRwiz101 February 25, 2012

masturbrake

(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."

by PRwiz101 February 7, 2014

thumper sticker

A bumper sticker-like slogan imprinted on a t-shirt.

"Hey, did you see that thumper sticker on that guy's t-shirt?"

"Wow, the thumper sticker on that woman's t-shirt is cool!"

by PRwiz101 May 10, 2009

eback

(n.) -- an e-book composed in or converted to a digital format for display on a computer screen or handheld device; first there were hardbacks and paperbacks, now there are ebacks

"I just ordered Stephen King's latest novel in digital format. For me, an eback is just as a good as a paperback book, even better, because I can store it for use anytime anywhere and read it off a variety of screens."

-- overheard at a watercooler in a bookstore in Chicago on March 24, 2010

by PRwiz101 April 4, 2010