anthony brancato's definitions

Gentrefaction

Gentrification; i.e., the displacement of lower-class residents of a neighborhood (esp. one located in or near the center of a large city) by upper-class residents (a back-formation of "putrefaction;" used contemptuously by the phenomenon's detractors)

Some long-time residents of San Francisco's Mission District have taken to vandalizing the cars of "yuppies" to protest the ongoing "gentrefaction" of their neighborhood.

by Anthony Brancato February 19, 2005

wrength

The state or fact of being wrong (as "length" denotes the state or fact of being long and "strength" the state or fact of being strong)

The word "wrength" appears to have been coined unintendedly, by users who actually believed it had existed all along; occasionally it would appear in such venues as letters to the editor in newspapers (from Wikipedia)

by Anthony Brancato February 19, 2005

LCN

La Cosa Nostra; the Mafia (originally coined by federal law enforcement officials after U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell directed them to stop using the word "Mafia" in official correspondences, in 1970)

He was photographed coming out of a bar in Queens known to be frequented by LCN members and associates.

by Anthony Brancato June 5, 2004

jeeb

A capsule containing Tuinal, a sedative drug that combines two barbiturates (Seconal and Sodium Amytal) in equal proportions (used in the 1980s). See also bean.

"He'd do a jeeb and then wash it down with whiskey, and within minutes he would be practically falling all over the place."

by Anthony Brancato February 19, 2004

halal

Death (because "halal" means just that in Hungarian)

Recently some members of the now-defunct heavy metal band Tragic Johnson have formed a new band named Halal. Why Halal? Because Halal means "death" in Hungarian.

by Anthony Brancato February 19, 2004

cuckold

A person (formerly only a man, but now one of either gender) who is the spouse of an adulterer.

During the Clinton Administration, Hillary Rodham Clinton was sometimes sarcastically referred to as "The First Cuckold."

by Anthony Brancato April 19, 2003

baby bust

A sharp or prolonged decline in the birth rate, such as that which occurred in the United States from 1958 through 1968.

After 1957, the U.S. birth rate (per 1,000 population) declined for eleven consecutive years - the longest baby bust on record.

by Anthony Brancato April 19, 2003