anarcissie's definitions

bollix up

(verb) mess up, confuse, screw up, wreck; also spelled bollocks up and bollox up. Related to "balls-up", that is, upside-down. A spelling euphemism.

"Count on that doofus to bollix up the plan so we get out of here late."

by anarcissie May 1, 2008

poison pill

Something added to a situation, company, deal, object, etc., to make it undesirable to takers, buyers, thieves, investors, or conquerors.

"They're planning a hostile takeover of our company, but we're taking on a huge debt which ought to serve as a poison pill and turn them off."

by anarcissie May 17, 2008

The Deuce

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.

'Man, I need to score, I'm gonna hit the Deuce.'

by anarcissie January 10, 2012

take gas

(verb) to die. As an imperative, equal to "fuck off and die" or "drop dead".

"When Joe suggested I do his work for him I told him to take gas."

by anarcissie May 28, 2008

oogly

The second stage of ugly; that which is beyond ugly. The stages are usually given as ugly, oogly, yoogly, hyoogly. Scientists are at work with facial supercolliders to discover more advanced stages. A parallel branch has been found beginning with 'fugly'.

Those people are totally oogly -- I had to run from the room lest it be catching.

by anarcissie June 10, 2019

candy ass

(noun) A person who displays insufficient fortitude or toughness in a difficult or uncomfortable situation; by extension, a person or thing which is inadequate to the purpose at hand. Can be turned into an adjective by adding -ed ("candy-assed"). Frequently heard in the military.

"He was too much of a candy ass to do a hundred push-ups and run ten miles before breakfast."

by anarcissie May 28, 2008

wet job

Secret-agent work in which someone is murdered. Also 'wet work' or 'wet operation'. Term was invented by KGB and is a translation of the Russian mokroe delo.

Terminating the leader of the opposition with extreme prejudice was a wet job for which Agent Morcomb was admirably suited.

by anarcissie January 16, 2011