PRwiz101's definitions

apocapricious

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

by PRwiz101 May 24, 2009

evicted

(n.) -- The exclamation one makes when a cockroach is successfully zapped by an electric zapper

''Look, I finally zapped him for good. Evicted!''

overheard in an office kitchenette in Taipei, November 15, 2010

by PRwiz101 November 26, 2010

quote magnet

(n.) - a famous person, living or dead, who people often attribute quotes to, even though he or she might not have actually said the things they are quoted as saying; examples are Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and Winston Churchill, among others.

"You know, Einstein is a real quote magnet. There are websites and blogs all over the Internet that attribute quotes to him that in some cases he never uttered or wrote. It's hard to know what's true and what's not!"

by PRwiz101 January 22, 2010

comentum

(n.) -- When two people share the same momentum in a foot race, bicycle race or political campaign

"Wow, Jack and Stephen are neck and neck and the race is hardly over. There is some real comentum out there on the track today, and there's no way to know who's going to win."

Overheard at a track and field event in California on January 15, 2012

by PRwiz101 February 7, 2012

crash blossoms

(n.) -- a neologism for infelicitously-worded newspaper headlines which at first reading seem to mean one thing but upon second reading mean something completely different; often hard to figure out at first; called "crash blossoms" because one specific headline from a newspaper used the two words -- "crash blossoms" -- in a confusing way

Japan Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms

by PRwiz101 August 30, 2009

farticle

(n.) - A newspaper article about a continuing news story that everyone is sick of.

"I am so sick of reading farticle after farticle about this continuing saga of the murdered coed in Seattle. I mean, she's dead. Let it go."

by PRwiz101 September 28, 2009

intervine

(n.) - The internet grapevine of gossip, rumors, innuendo and news flashes

"How did I hear this? I heard it on the intervine somewhere! It's gone viral now, everyone's talking
about it!"

-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, June 25, 2011

by PRwiz101 July 19, 2011