An impressive looking device or scheme, that in fact, does nothing. It is commonly believed that pedestrian controlled traffic signals and signs warning that police monitor speeders by aircraft, are blatant examples.
by Bill Peters August 12, 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 06, 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
(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 07, 2006
(1) To one-up someone in an argument or in a put down
(2) To illegally scam by adding charges to a person’s phone bill without their permission (Slamming senior citizens is a big business in Florida)
(3) Poetry slams are highly charged get-togethers or contests in which poets and rappers exchange their works with inspired verbal presentations.
(4) Slam dancing involves wild dancing (slamming bodies and thrashing limbs) among a large group of tightly packed participants
(2) To illegally scam by adding charges to a person’s phone bill without their permission (Slamming senior citizens is a big business in Florida)
(3) Poetry slams are highly charged get-togethers or contests in which poets and rappers exchange their works with inspired verbal presentations.
(4) Slam dancing involves wild dancing (slamming bodies and thrashing limbs) among a large group of tightly packed participants
(1) Every night John Stewart manages to slam someone in the White House
(2) Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, made millions of dollars slamming senior citizens on the East Coast.
(3) Poetry slams attended by young people, have been a boon for the petry market.
(4) My 14-year-old daughter has been forbidden to enter mosh pits at concerts for fear that either she will get hurt by all the slamming or even ber groped.
(2) Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, made millions of dollars slamming senior citizens on the East Coast.
(3) Poetry slams attended by young people, have been a boon for the petry market.
(4) My 14-year-old daughter has been forbidden to enter mosh pits at concerts for fear that either she will get hurt by all the slamming or even ber groped.
by Bill Peters October 11, 2006
Restaurant lingo meaning "take an item off the menu." By extension it can also mean to get rid of almost anything (including doing away with somebody). The Urbandictionary entry attributing the term to the 1980s is erroneous. I worked as a short order cook in the late 1960s and it was in use in a half dozen NewYork city joints where I worked. Oldtimers say the term was around in the 1940s and that the derivation is Article 86 of the New York Liquor Code which describes the circumstances under which liquor should be withheld from a customer.
by Bill Peters August 22, 2006