56 definitions by bill peters
GIs often don't want to wear turtle suits because it restricts their moblity and range of motion, but it has proven to have saved hundreds of lives.
by bill peters October 12, 2006
(1)(n) Bathroom
(2)(n) Jail, overnight clink or holding cell
(3)(n) Buttocks
(4)(vb) To stop doing something; to fire or get rid of someone
(2)(n) Jail, overnight clink or holding cell
(3)(n) Buttocks
(4)(vb) To stop doing something; to fire or get rid of someone
(1) Hold on a minute, I gotta visit the can
(2) They threw the poor homeless guy in the can for pissing in the park.
(3) Sgt: Get off your cans and start policing this area
(4) They won't can me; I'm the only one who knows what's going on in this place.
(2) They threw the poor homeless guy in the can for pissing in the park.
(3) Sgt: Get off your cans and start policing this area
(4) They won't can me; I'm the only one who knows what's going on in this place.
by bill peters November 10, 2006
Gay slang abbreviation for “androgynous dyke.” A lesbian who is neither “lipstick” or “butch”, ie., neither overly masculine or feminine. The term "andro-look" and simply "andro" are also commonly used.
by bill peters October 7, 2006
A test used in 19th middle and upper class Black communities to decide of a black American was sufficiently white enough to warrant inclusion. The idea is that your hair should be as straight as a ruler. Today the practice is not rightly condemned as "colorism" but is not altogether abandoned. See also brown paper bag test
"Don't go swimming or you won't be able to pass the ruler test when you meet your date's parent's tonight."
by bill peters August 20, 2006
Synonyms for coins:
accounts, aces, assets, bacon, bankroll, benjamins, bills, bling, bones, bread, bucks, bullets, cabbage, cache, cake, capital, cartwheels, case notes, cash, change, cheddar, cheese, chicamin, chips, clams, cocnuts, coin , coinage, corn, cornicupia, cucmbers, currency , dead presidents, dough, ducats, fat, federals,feta, fish, folding green, frogs, frogskins, fromage, funds, gigabucks, goodies, goods, gouda, graft, gravy, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks, grubstake, guineas, haul, heap, hoard, holdings, ice, jack, jangle, jingle, kale, kitty, lettuce, lift, lolly, long green, loochie, loose change, loot, lucre, mad money, make, marigolds, mattress full, mazuma, means, megabucks, mintage, monkey, moola, motsa, nest egg, notes, nuts, milk, oscar, pap, paper, payola, pelf, pesos, piasters, pile, plums, plunder, pockets, pony, poppy, pork, pot, potatos, quids, rack, receipts, rent money, renumeration, resources, rhinos, rivets, rock, roll, salt, Santa Claus, scratch, scrilla, scrip, sheckels, shrapnel, silver, simoleon, skins, smackeroos, smackers, sock, specie, spondulicks, stake, stash, stockpile, store, stuff, sugar, swag, sweetener, take, tender, tribute, trove, velvet, victuals, wad, wallet, wampum, wherewithal, wonga, yellowbacks, yield, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$
accounts, aces, assets, bacon, bankroll, benjamins, bills, bling, bones, bread, bucks, bullets, cabbage, cache, cake, capital, cartwheels, case notes, cash, change, cheddar, cheese, chicamin, chips, clams, cocnuts, coin , coinage, corn, cornicupia, cucmbers, currency , dead presidents, dough, ducats, fat, federals,feta, fish, folding green, frogs, frogskins, fromage, funds, gigabucks, goodies, goods, gouda, graft, gravy, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks, grubstake, guineas, haul, heap, hoard, holdings, ice, jack, jangle, jingle, kale, kitty, lettuce, lift, lolly, long green, loochie, loose change, loot, lucre, mad money, make, marigolds, mattress full, mazuma, means, megabucks, mintage, monkey, moola, motsa, nest egg, notes, nuts, milk, oscar, pap, paper, payola, pelf, pesos, piasters, pile, plums, plunder, pockets, pony, poppy, pork, pot, potatos, quids, rack, receipts, rent money, renumeration, resources, rhinos, rivets, rock, roll, salt, Santa Claus, scratch, scrilla, scrip, sheckels, shrapnel, silver, simoleon, skins, smackeroos, smackers, sock, specie, spondulicks, stake, stash, stockpile, store, stuff, sugar, swag, sweetener, take, tender, tribute, trove, velvet, victuals, wad, wallet, wampum, wherewithal, wonga, yellowbacks, yield, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$
by bill peters January 6, 2007
Perjorative term for Fisk, Spellman College and Howard Universities, all of which have in the past have been allegedly guilty of refusing to admit students with skin tone darker than a brown paper bag.
by bill peters August 20, 2006
Term used by Vietnam War GI's to describe the unfortunant and frequent practice of torching (via Zippo lighters) of straw huts (hooches) in villages (villes) suspected of harboring or abetting Vietcong soldiers. The term has since come to mean arson of any kind.
by bill peters October 7, 2006