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turtle suit

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
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Ali Baba

Unfortunate term among Iraq War GIs to describe any Iraqi bad guy: looter, thief, insurgent, terrorist, or suspect.
The use of "Ali Baba" is probably not helping us win the war for Hearts and Minds in Iraq.
by Bill Peters October 9, 2006
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perv

(n) (1) Someone perceived by the speaker as being sexually obsessed or promiscuous (rarely a true pervert)
(2) A retort one uses when they think the other person is being twisted in some fashion
(1) Your little brother asked me if my breasts were real. He's such a perv.

(2)
Female: You're kind of cute.
Guy: Y'think so? Ya wanna feel my "cute?"
Female: PERV !
by Bill Peters November 11, 2006
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can

(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
(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.
by Bill Peters November 10, 2006
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cretinous

(adj) Cretin-like, idiotic, boorish (Word found in many early 20th Cent dictionaries has enjoyed recent slang usage, especially among hackers. “Crétin” is a not entirely respected French dialectal term for a deformed or retarded person)
Brittney Spears is a cretinous poster-girl.
by Bill Peters November 11, 2006
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coins

(n) (1) Paper (folding) money; currency.
(2) Money
(3) Wealth
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, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$
by Bill Peters January 8, 2007
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ruler test

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 19, 2006
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