StarryGordon's definitions

handle

'The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments' (Wiktionary), or, more generally, the gross amount of transactions in a given instance of business.

"The yearly handle of the American medical industry is said to be more than 17% of the gross domestic product."
"The military-industrial-academic complex is not going to blow off a handle of several hundred billion just because some mopes don't like war this week."

by StarryGordon January 16, 2022

thick

Close to one another physically, emotionally, or in interests.

Those guys are thick as thieves.

by StarryGordon December 19, 2016

Pepe

A tiresome, outworn metameme filling the consciousness of the vacuous. As it is unsatisfactory, it keeps coming back to try again. An NFT for people who don't know what an NFT is. The last of the last gasps gasping.

I knew JJ was at the end of his threadbare rope when he raised Pepe from the dead again.

by StarryGordon July 13, 2022

gray

A species of extraterrestrial alien.

The grays have been observed arriving from the mother ship.

by StarryGordon June 13, 2016

cold deck

(verb) In computers or related technology, running an executable or object program developed for and by another kind of system without modification. So called because prior to more advanced media, computer programs were mostly punched into and stored on card decks, and different computers usually had differing instruction sets instead of copying Intel.

This computer can cold deck anything in current or recent production.

by StarryGordon October 7, 2021

Nawlns

The simplest form of 'New Orleans'. The closer you are to the city, the fewer syllables you use to name it. People in Tashkent say 'New Orleans', in Akron they say Nwawlins, in Beaumont 'Nawlins', and down home it's 'Nawlns'. There is a rumor that some inhabitants of worked out a way to say it with zero syllables, but this report is as yet unconfirmed.

'Ah fum Nawlns. Woa you fum?'
'Where are you going?' 'Nawlns'. 'Yeah, but like where you _going_, man?'

by StarryGordon October 15, 2020

chop

To lower the suspension of a motor vehicle in order to make it look cooler; to produce a low-rider.

Poor Wally begged his dad to allow him to chop the family Oldsmobile without success.

by StarryGordon June 13, 2016