al-in-chgo's definitions

the tick-tock

Informal American journalese for a detailed chronology of events.

"We don't know the tick-tock of those (scandalous) events yet." ~ Chuck Todd, MEET THE PRESS, February 11, 2018.

by al-in-chgo May 5, 2018

circumbendibus

Amusing fake Latin, in use since the late Eighteenth Century.

"I'm not going to argue with you any more! We're just going 'round and 'round, and I won't get on that circumbendibus again!"

by al-in-chgo February 12, 2018

honey badger

A vicious and very hardy feral animal that can withstand attacks, stings, and even snake bites yet keeps on killing and eating. Metaphorically, an assistant or political operative who takes a similar "no-holds-barred" approach and is always on the attack despite attacks and reprisals.

"Official Washington and its counterparts around the globe are struggling to understand just how much the honey badgers are now running the show." - TIME magazine, 13 February 2017

by al-in-chgo February 4, 2017

horses and bayonets

Barack Obama's flippant reponse to Mitt Romney's complaint during their third televised debate (October 22, 2012) that the U.S. Navy had fewer battleships than at any time since 1917. Obama's remark that the military has fewer "horses and bayonets, too" makes an analogy that measuring battleships (as opposed to aircraft carriers) is an archaic metric of military power, in much the same way that measuring "horses and bayonets" would no longer indicate an army's might. (NB: Marines are still issued bayonets.)

"The Navy has fewer battleships than at any time since 1917."

"The military has fewer horses and bayonets, too. We live in a different world."

by al-in-chgo October 23, 2012

S and M

"Standing and Modeling" in one of Chicago's gay bars at a time that a less-than-convivial mood prevails.

If you mean "sadomasochism," just say "SM."

"I was at Sidetracks last night and it was pure S and M -- nobody wanted to talk to anyone."

by al-in-chgo January 25, 2013

pecker

Casual way to say "penis." Not considered as vulgar as "cock," "prick," or "dick," almost cute in fact, but definitely not standard. Originally "pecker" was a Southern (USA) usage, but social mobility and innumerable HBO comic roasts have broadened its range.

"I've got Hubert's pecker in my pocket." Said by 1960s US President Lyndon Baines Johnson of his VP Hubert Humphrey, meaning (metaphorically) that Hubert was his bitch politically.

"I'd rather cut my pecker off." Said by same LBJ when told by his physician he had to stop smoking immediately.

by al-in-chgo July 13, 2012

jackoff buddy

A friend who helps you with mutual masturbation, usually male-on-male.

A jackoff buddy promises a more limited repertoire than a fuck buddy.

by al-in-chgo August 4, 2012