sticking point

(n.) A crucial situation, contradiction, or contention, with importance conveyed by context and tone. Synonyms include sticky wicket, sticky widget.

Lulu's sticking point was not which nail polish to use on her Lee press-on fingernails. Sparkly polish always did the trick. Rather -- which would be better for the toes? Puke green?

by ignor July 18, 2005

double dip

Favorite behavior of crude diners. Involves dipping your crudite or corn chip into a sauce, taking a bite from the veggie or chip, and then re-dipping the half digested item back into the sauce

Made famous on Seinfeld some years back.

Sign at country fair food stall: "DO NOT DOUBLE DIP!"

by ignor September 19, 2004

schmo

Yiddish for an idiot or a cuckold. Essential loan word in New Yorkese English, along with all the other Yiddish insults. See also schmuck.

That schmo just took my spot and flipped me the bird. Jerk.

by ignor July 05, 2003

killer stick

i.e. a cigarette. Used in a sarcastic way towards non-smokers to indicate that the smoker could care less whether or not others accept his/her smoking habit. See also cancer stick.

Whatever, I'm taking a killer stick break.

by ignor July 05, 2003

chitlin

Not pork fat, but the large intestine of a hog. Signature variety meat of soul food and Southern cuisine in general. Cleaned, cut, and then fried or boiled.
Known for a distinctive aroma.

Some love chitlins while others can't stand the smell.

by ignor November 06, 2003

team member

aka employee. PR term usually found in McJobs, dead end work with little benefit. I assume that this term is meant to engender feelings of solidarity among cashiers and customer service managers.

JoJo applied as a team member at Denny's. Instead she was washing dishes for minimum wage. Not even a group hug. This sucks.

by ignor September 19, 2004

sticky widget

(stik-EE widge-ET, likely American)

Contradiction or intellectual impasse. A corruption of the phrase sticky wicket, describing a tricky situation in the game of cricket. The substitution of widget for wicket suggests a substitution of a more familiar word given most Americans' ignorance of the game.

see also sticking point, widget.

Dick: "I wonder which holds greater cosmic import -- the ontology of giraffes or Polynesian linguistics."

Jane: "What a sticky widget. Let's go get some Burger King."

by ignor July 18, 2005