Definitions by QuacksO
naughty-gift scavenger
A low-income person who trundels a wheelbarrow all around town on Christmas morning and collects the lumps of coal that Santa left in the stockings of all the bratty youngsters, so that he can take it back home and burn it in his stove for heat.
As we all know, Santa is extremely careful about determining who's actually been naughty or nice ("He's makin' a list, and checkin' it twice"), and so quite a significant percentage of the children in any given area will probably receive high-grade anthracite as their Christmas present. A naughty-gift scavenger, therefore, should have little trouble filling up his 'barrow come Christmas Day, since most parents wouldn't want "that dirty black stuff" in their houses, anyway, and thus they would probably be all too happy to be rid of it; about the only families who would likely tell him no would be fellow-indigent folks who themselves would want to use said sooty lumps in their own furnaces.
naughty-gift scavenger by QuacksO February 16, 2019
counter-fit
1. A "copycat" temper-tantrum that someone else throws in order to show an overly-explosive person "how horrible/ridiculous it looks".
2. A rage that someone flies into upon being "busted" for trying to pass fake money.
2. A rage that someone flies into upon being "busted" for trying to pass fake money.
I wonder if that infamous thirteen-dollar-bill-proffering dude had a counter-fit when the backwoods-hillbilly shop-owner offered him "a six and a seven, or how about three three's and a four" as change for his "funny money"?
counter-fit by QuacksO February 16, 2019
weren'twolf
Doctor Moreau wisely avoided using canine-type mammals in his vivisection experiments, preferring to operate on weren'twolf-species only. In the end, however, the altered creatures' taste for meat still brought about the doctor's downfall.
weren'twolf by QuacksO February 16, 2019
awlternative
Certain thin/delicate/brittle materials can tear or crack easily when forcibly pierced, so a drill-bit or other awlternative should be used to make damage-free holes.
awlternative by QuacksO February 15, 2019
peedeeattrition
The reduction in the number of cops employed in a given area, whether due to budget-cuts, retirements, corruption-scandals resulting in officer-firings/transfers, etc.
peedeeattrition by QuacksO February 15, 2019
mailstrom
A humongous debacle/scandal caused by negligence/laziness/corruption on the part of the Postal Service.
Contrabution
The diversion of funds that Ollie North infamously created on behalf of the Nicaraguan "freedom-fighters", which produced dubious results and landed him in a whole lotta hot water with the US Government.
Ollie North claimed that the Contrabution he made to Iran and Nicaragua was merely "the residuals" leftover from a legitimate transaction, but I dunno if anybody truly bought that clap-trap.
Contrabution by QuacksO February 14, 2019