cosmo's definitions

gloving

Inserting a beer or other alcoholic beverage into a glove or similarly innocent object for the purpose of inconspicuous consumption. Frequently used at public activities to dodge open container, public intoxication and underaged drinking laws.

Kevin: Dude, why are you drinking out of that glove?

Chris: So that cop over there doesn't arrest me for an open container violation. It's called gloving.

by cosmo November 3, 2006

Janey

A novice female, generally one from the city attempting an outdoor sport. A female Joey. Generally not used as an adjective, though.

Originates with people from the greater Boston or NYC areas traveling to ski resorts in northern New England or Upstate NY, and shouting things like "Hey, Janey! Janey, hit the jump!" to each other, when they clearly have no idea what they're doing.

"Look at that freakin' Janey. I saw her out skiing this morning and she didn't make it off the Green lift once."

by Cosmo October 4, 2005

SUV Democrat

A fairly wealthy person with Democratic (as opposed to Republican) political leanings. Often carries the connotation that their lifetsyle is not entirely in sync with the philosophy of their politics. Found in high concentrations around Aspen, Colorado and Berkeley, California.

Dick: "Look at that! Another GMC Envoy with a Kerry/Edwards bumpersticker."

Jane: "Looks like another SUV Democrat."

by Cosmo August 1, 2005

jim-jams

condoms. a combination of "Jimmy hat" and "Toejam"

"Yo, man. Last night, Chris had to run out and find some jim-jams at 3am."

"Eh, dumbass should have planned ahead."

by Cosmo January 3, 2005

Bop-type Refrain

An extremely esoteric nickname for cocaine. In the original lyrics to the Cole Porter classic showtune "I Get a Kick Out of You", the second verse begins is "Some get a kick from cocaine". As the years passed, that was changed to "Some like the bop-type refrain" so kids could continue to put on "Anything Goes" as a high-school musical.

People aware of this, wanting to demonstrate their cultural refinement and speak about cocaine, all while avoiding eavesdroppers and self-incrimination, replace the technical name of their drug of choice with "Bop-type Refrain" (or simply "Bop-type", though the later option brings with it a tremendous risk of losing your audience.)

Chris: I'm sick of referring to cocaine as "yatch". It's gone too mainstream.
Kevin: How about "Bop-type Refrain"?
Chris: What the - oh, I get it. I didn't know you were a devotee of musical theater.
Kevin: Eh, I know the Sinatra version.

by Cosmo July 25, 2006

St. Monday

The act of taking Monday off from work/class because you got crunk so hard over the weekend that you couldn't recover in time. The joke is that you're celebrating "St Monday's Day" and so you can't come to work.

The term actually dates back to pre-revolutionary America. Benjamin Franklin makes fun of his co-workers for taking a large number of "Saint Mondays" in "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".

"This, and my being esteem'd a pretty good riggite, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported my consequence in the society. My constant attendance (I never making a St. Monday) recommended me to the master; and my uncommon quickness at composing occasioned my being put upon all work of dispatch, which was generally better paid. So I went on now very agreeably."

-The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Cosmo July 17, 2006

Colombian Flu

The incessant sniffling that inevitably follows insufflating a line of cocaine. So called because cocaine is a stereotypically Colombian export, and sniffling is a symptom of flu.

Chris: Yo, Kev, man, why you keep sniffling like that?
Kevin: Just a bad case of Colombian Flu.

by Cosmo February 7, 2007