(verb) of a computer or other machine, or a set of them: to stop functioning in the middle of a job or operation, to enter a suspended state, especially unexpectedly and without giving any indication of the cause.
"Morris's message ordered each receiving machine to send out a dozen like it, causing the whole network to hang."
"My computer mysteriously hangs every morning at 9:30."
"My computer mysteriously hangs every morning at 9:30."
by anarcissie May 28, 2008
(noun) conclusive encounter or contest. From poker, where at the termination of betting the hands of the players who are still in the game are laid on the table and compared to determine the winner. Also used metaphorically. Sometimes "throwdown" is used with this meaning.
"After several weeks of random threats and skirmishes, the two gangs met in the parking lot of Kresge's for a showdown."
by anarcissie May 28, 2008
A prefix indicating that the root word has been artificially grown or constructed or genetically modified, a la Dr. Frankenstein's monster.
"When you add 'franken' to 'food' you get 'frankenfood', which is what that hot dog you're eating is."
"That's all right -- I've got to feed my frankenboobs."
"That's all right -- I've got to feed my frankenboobs."
by anarcissie May 18, 2008
(verb and noun) In baseball and softball, the act of touching a player with the ball while he or she is off base, thus putting him or her out. It may be related to the children's game of tag, and the meanings of hit, strike, paint, fuck, etc., may derive from either.
"Dumfugga is ten feet off base in a world of his own -- watch the second baseman walk up and tag him."
by anarcissie May 16, 2008
42nd Street in New York City (the southernmost part of Times Square). Back in the day, a center of total depravity, especially between 8th and 9th Avenue, but currently Disneyfied.
by anarcissie January 10, 2012
"Those prep-school boys were having a round pound when the housemaster burst in. They were petrified (except for their dicks) but he just wanted to join in."
by anarcissie May 28, 2008
Children, or evidence of children such as toys, children's clothing, etc., obviously resulting from someone's use of his pecker.
'When I sold encyclopedias door-to-door back in the day, I would always look for pecker tracks on the lawn to know which houses to hit.'
by anarcissie June 02, 2013