whitewash

1. to win decisively, especially before the other side can achieve a single goal

2. to make something undesirable, damaging seem legitimate or acceptable, usually by falsification or concealment

They Just whitewashed the election.

by The Return of Light Joker September 30, 2009

panhandle

to beg on the streets (a back-formation of panhandler)

I ain't go gonna panhandle away my life. I have potential.

by The Return of Light Joker September 30, 2008

cold snap

a brief period of very cold weather

The one cold snap we had before winter came at an inconvenient time.

by The Return of Light Joker October 17, 2009

cover up

something meant to obfuscate or conceal the truth

This is the most half-baked cover up I've ever seen.

by The Return of Light Joker September 08, 2009

night person

someone who works at night or perfers to be up at night

I stay up late. but I am no night person.

by The Return of Light Joker December 30, 2007

not in Kansas anymore

no longer in surroundings that are quiet and comfortable (a quote of Dorothy's line in the 1939 Wizard of Oz Film)

I hate to say it but we are not in Kansas anymore.

by The Return of Light Joker May 03, 2011

elephantitis

slang for the deforming disease known as elephantiasis(a good example of how a word related to health care can be misheard so easily)

He could have come back from his trip with elephantitis.

by The Return of Light Joker April 05, 2008