brap's definitions

backburner

a place where you put things you don't have time/money for or have otherwise abandoned.
origin: an urban fire escape where you go and get a sunburn on your back.

you don't have room for that in your life, you'd better put it on the back burner

by brap February 5, 2005

sweatskirt

The little skirt of shirt material that forms around your waist when you wear a long shirt under a short sweatshirt.

Man, Charlie needs either a longer sweatshirt or a shorter t-shirt. He's sporting a major sweatskirt!

by brap April 3, 2010

back burner

1. a place where you put things you don't have time/money for or have otherwise abandoned.
origin: an urban fire escape where you go and get a sunburn on your back.

"you don't have room for that in your life, you'd better put it on the back burner"

by brap February 5, 2005

PEBTAC

Term used by system administrators and help desk technicians when an internal customer has a problem that no amount of technical/technological "fixing" will resolve. Stands for "Problem Exists Between Terminal and Chair"

IT Manager: The VP of Marketing needs help with his mouse again.
Help Desk: Well, we already replaced it with a newer model and updated the driver. This is obviously a case of PEBTAC.

by brap March 30, 2009

trip hop

An obnoxious catch-all term that, like so many others, used to mean something. Say what you will about tempos and influences, but the fact remains that the term "trip hop" has been co-opted by under-informed marketers wanting to cash in a on groups and artist with actual talent such as Tricky, Portishead and Massive Attack.

Sneaker Pimps, Morcheeba, and Hooverphonic are sometimes called trip hop groups.

by brap May 21, 2007

mook (n.)

1. A loosely adhered-to marketing term used to refer to an adolescent to twentysomething male who shows off and makes a scene of himself. A mook personifies the adoption of trends for the sake of commercialism and the mindless celebration of childish masculinity. Particularly featured on mtv

2. That guy at your high school who used to be really popular when he was an underclassman, but now he sleeps with popular girls to get attention.

Fred Durst, Johnny Knoxville, Tom Green

by brap August 26, 2004

Smurfing

Buying up the maximum allowed quantities of pseudoephedrine-based medicines at one location after another for use in the production of crystal meth.

After drug enforcement officers successfully regulated the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, many large-scale producers of crystal meth were force into smurfing

by brap April 4, 2009