1. 22nd letter of the alphabet.
2. Biochemical symbol for valine.
3. Chemical symbol for vanadium.
4. Roman numeral rendered in Arabic numerals as 5.
5. Cool 1983 TV miniseries about an invasion of the Earth by aliens who are not as friendly as they at first appear.
6. Symbol of victory, used by the French resistance in the Second World War.
7. Main character in V for Vendetta, a graphic novel by Alan Moore, who dresses in a stylised Guy Fawkes costume and sets about tearing down the totalitarian government of Britain.
8. The same character as played by Hugo Weaving in the movie based on Moore's graphic novel.
9. Thomas Pynchon's first novel.
10. As the V sign, a hand symbol indicating either "we've got this under control" or "up yours", depending on the direction the palm is facing.
11. Sexual symbol; first letter of vulva or vagina, and the shape of the figure echoes the folds at the split in the groin. As related in the pop mystical tale of The Da Vinci Code, the letter is a symbol of the female principle or the womb, with an inverted V as that of the phallus.
12. With a full stop, informal shorthand for the word very.
13. Short for versus.
14. I could go on ...,
2. Biochemical symbol for valine.
3. Chemical symbol for vanadium.
4. Roman numeral rendered in Arabic numerals as 5.
5. Cool 1983 TV miniseries about an invasion of the Earth by aliens who are not as friendly as they at first appear.
6. Symbol of victory, used by the French resistance in the Second World War.
7. Main character in V for Vendetta, a graphic novel by Alan Moore, who dresses in a stylised Guy Fawkes costume and sets about tearing down the totalitarian government of Britain.
8. The same character as played by Hugo Weaving in the movie based on Moore's graphic novel.
9. Thomas Pynchon's first novel.
10. As the V sign, a hand symbol indicating either "we've got this under control" or "up yours", depending on the direction the palm is facing.
11. Sexual symbol; first letter of vulva or vagina, and the shape of the figure echoes the folds at the split in the groin. As related in the pop mystical tale of The Da Vinci Code, the letter is a symbol of the female principle or the womb, with an inverted V as that of the phallus.
12. With a full stop, informal shorthand for the word very.
13. Short for versus.
14. I could go on ...,
by Fearman November 27, 2007
Get the Vmug. Institution which, with a bit of luck, can just about manage to undo half of a percent of the damage wrought by school.
by Fearman August 04, 2007
Get the universitymug. According to current theory, when the Great Attractor tries the swallow the Great Central Node, it will reduce the entire Universe to Catastrophic Hyperplasm.
by Fearman February 10, 2008
Get the Catastrophic Hyperplasmmug. by Fearman May 24, 2008
Get the the kiss that keeps on kissingmug. Place young people are confined for much of their childhood and adolescence to have any subversive interest in intellectual pursuits or sport ruthlessly beaten out of them. If they pull through with their sanity halfway intact, they are ready for university ... or anything else that could happen.
You're still in school? My sympathies.
by Fearman August 04, 2007
Get the schoolmug. Someone who cynically grandstands about their unpleasant childhood, by way of fishing for pity or giving an apologia for their heartless or anti-social behaviour. Very trendy in a postmodernist climate. From the character in Dickens' "Hard Times".
Look at that kid on the TV saying that he wouldn't have killed the kid on a joyride if his own mummy had loved him a bit more. What a perfect little Bounderby.
by Fearman August 07, 2007
Get the Bounderbymug. Used of someone who is living beyond their means. Their wealth is purely in their head and implicit in their attitude.
She can't afford the rent and just bought herself a state-of-the-art computer system on credit. She's rich from the neck up.
by Fearman August 10, 2007
Get the rich from the neck upmug.