(adj. and adv.) Not right, not correct, impolite, rude, improper, treyf, crazy; not ready, not alert; in baseball and softball, not touching one of the bases and thus vulnerable to being tagged out.
"I don't like Hillary either, but his remarks about her were way off base."
"Joe was off base so he was easily tagged out."
"Joe was off base so he was easily tagged out."
by anarcissie May 16, 2008
A mythical award given for the accomplishment of an improbable crime, act of violence, or accident, especially with a car; for instance, running over an ordinary pedestrian counts as one point, running over a pregnant nun on a bicycle is worth five points, but running a bus full of pregnant nuns off a cliff is given 40 points. The crime need not be automotive -- firearms, bombs, inflammable fluids and the operation of heavy machinery are also acceptable means. Pregnant nuns, extraterrestrials, hallucinations and in-laws are favored targets.
by anarcissie January 14, 2011
In the situation of being about to be fired, laid off, or dumped, as in "walking the plank", "on the plank", "went off the plank", etc.; from the pirate custom of making superfluous individuals walk off a plank at the side of their ship and fall into the water.
by anarcissie May 02, 2008
A word or phrase which, when uttered aloud, is sure to cause offense or a fight, especially a vulgar ethnic epithet spoken to a member of the group to which it refers.
"Then he said the Magic Word and the fun started -- five minutes later that bar was wrecked and someone's head had been pushed into the deep fat fryer. We left just ahead of the cops, the firemen, and the ambulance."
by anarcissie May 22, 2008
(noun) In mid-20th-century hipster lingo, any situation or environment, but especially a socially coherent one, like a party, job, meeting, show, demonstration, riot, etc. Thus to "make the scene" meant to arrive and be at an event, etc.
by anarcissie May 28, 2008
To annoy someone, especially about something they're concerned with or sensitive to, usually in a specious or humorous manner, just for the sake of annoying them. A real-world form of trolling..
'I proved to Bubba that Black people were superior to White -- it was all b.s., but I wanted to yank one's chain a bit.
by anarcissie November 08, 2015
(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