a game popularized on blustery Saturday afternoons on the ponds of Laval. Shinny is a hockey-like game played with brooms, broken hockey sticks, and hunks of things that you can hit around till the bars open a midi.
un Joual: L'usine s'est fermée.
des autres Joual: Bon! nous avons plus de temps pour jouer à la shinny maintenant.
des autres Joual: Bon! nous avons plus de temps pour jouer à la shinny maintenant.
by T-Dog Jenkins June 28, 2004
by T-Dog Jenkins March 08, 2005
derogatory term for a rural member of the American working class. This cutesy term has a demonizing impact on class consciousness, segregating the rural worker from his urban counterpart.
by T-Dog Jenkins March 17, 2005
1) (proper noun) a rundown milltown of 75,000 in Rhode Island populated by Roughnecks and Joeys.
2) (verb) to get sent down to the minors. It refers to the Pawtucket Red Sox, the AAA affiliate of the team in Boston.
2) (verb) to get sent down to the minors. It refers to the Pawtucket Red Sox, the AAA affiliate of the team in Boston.
Man, If Timlin doesn't shape up, Theo's going to have to Pawtucket his ass down to, well, Pawtucket.
by T-Dog Jenkins May 01, 2005
a derogatory term for an employee of a textile mill, particularly in the Hill Country of the American South. The term came into usage in the early twentieth century. Lintheads were and are primarily white southerners that are either the progeny of or themselves tenant farmers.
The foreman tries to make you feel badly about being a linthead. Don't be. Your spot in heaven is secure; they should be the one worrying.
by T-Dog Jenkins March 19, 2005
by T-Dog Jenkins February 20, 2005