This word has been in wide use around the Chicago area since I was a kid in the 1960s. It is the nasty black conglomerate of snow, ice, soot and car exhaust particles that forms underneath your car or truck after weeks of constant sub-freezing weather.
In Chicago, snard is an ever present visual reminder of how depressing winter can be.
You can near the unmistakable sound from the alley of someone knocking snard from their car.
Snard is the number one reason for rusting undercarriages in UP Michigan.
Snard makes car wash operations rich.
Snard is about the yukkiest stuff ever.
People down here in Maryland have no concept of what snard is. They are lucky.
You can near the unmistakable sound from the alley of someone knocking snard from their car.
Snard is the number one reason for rusting undercarriages in UP Michigan.
Snard makes car wash operations rich.
Snard is about the yukkiest stuff ever.
People down here in Maryland have no concept of what snard is. They are lucky.
by Bill Peters August 31, 2006
Get the snardmug. (n) A short, catchy statement meeting the short attention requirements of TV news. Sound bites have the annoying habit of being play again and again ad nauseum. In fact, newscasts are increasingly built around sound bites instead of hard news and analysis. And public relations firms earn huge bucks cooking up sound bites for political spin and damage control.
One memorable sound bite (1984 Debate) from Vice Presidential candidate Lloyd Bensten countering Dan Quayle's comparision of himself to President John Kennedy.
Bensten: "I knew Jack Kennedy. He was a friend of mine. You are no Jack Kennedy."
Bensten: "I knew Jack Kennedy. He was a friend of mine. You are no Jack Kennedy."
by Bill Peters November 24, 2006
Get the sound bitemug. (1) To be in possession of an illegal substance, particularly drugs.
(2) To be using drugs or found to be using through a test
(3) Shifty, greasy, unkempt, possession bad manners; having “redneck” qualities.
(4) A mullet
(2) To be using drugs or found to be using through a test
(3) Shifty, greasy, unkempt, possession bad manners; having “redneck” qualities.
(4) A mullet
(1) I'm not going to the concert with you if you are dirty. We might get busted.
(2) Barry Bonds never showed up dirty on his tests because he took measures to ensure he showed clean.
(3) She's so dirty; he must be mad about her to wanna go out with someone s-o-o-o-o on the other side of the tracks.
(4) Dawg the Bounty Hunter has a helluva dirty.
(2) Barry Bonds never showed up dirty on his tests because he took measures to ensure he showed clean.
(3) She's so dirty; he must be mad about her to wanna go out with someone s-o-o-o-o on the other side of the tracks.
(4) Dawg the Bounty Hunter has a helluva dirty.
by Bill Peters October 13, 2006
Get the dirtymug. (Noun)
(1) A very difficult and daunting undertaking;
(2) An emasculater; a female who habitually demeans and degrades men.
(3) Any authority such as a supervisor or a military superior who overworks or over-criticizes their subordinates.
(1) A very difficult and daunting undertaking;
(2) An emasculater; a female who habitually demeans and degrades men.
(3) Any authority such as a supervisor or a military superior who overworks or over-criticizes their subordinates.
(1) “That calculus course is a ball buster.”
(2) "She ballbusts guys by mocking their penis size and income."
(3) "Sgt. Whacko wouldn't let me take a break until I got the entire hole dug. What a ballbuster!"
(2) "She ballbusts guys by mocking their penis size and income."
(3) "Sgt. Whacko wouldn't let me take a break until I got the entire hole dug. What a ballbuster!"
by Bill Peters November 27, 2006
Get the ballbustermug. (verb) To be excessively adorned with jewelry and/or conspicuous clothes and other bling accoutrements.
by Bill Peters October 12, 2006
Get the icedmug. 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
Get the ruler testmug. 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 11, 2006
Get the mechanical placebomug.