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boodissy 

1. (n.) Something that smells horribly foul.

2. (adj.) Smelling horribly foul.
1. "Damn y'all, it smell like boodissy in here."

2. "Cripes, it smells all boodissy in this room even after spraying Febreze every which way; hmmm, maybe my fungi-infested feet and the two-week old salami sitting on my shelf....or maybe i'm just imagining the smell."
A hippo that has ceased to be hip.

Word used to describe anything that thinks it's cool, but isn't or anything that was once cool, but isn't anymore due to arrogance or a changing of the times.
Pachelbel the Panther: See Herbie over there? Think he all fly 'n shit, yawning like he don't give a fuck 'bout whether he gets mauled by Leo. He one straight opotamus.
Andy the Aardvark: Yeah, man. Think he all badass 'n cool, when he really just a bigass, lazy mo'fucka.

Hungry Hippos are the opposite of opotamus.

Bell bottoms are opotamus.
You perceive a typo in the text you just typed, and correct it, but then it turns out the original text was correct, and your error was in the rereading. You've just made a rereado.
Rereados are nothing to be concerned about:

It dsoen't rlaley mtater.

Sboodemy snet me an eiaml rentcely rdineming me taht it's olny the ltreets on ehetir end taht metatr. The oens in the mdlide you can put in whvaeter oredr you wnat.

clarifuscate 

To explain something in a way that confuses things even more.
Because their constituencies wouldn't vote for them otherwise, certain politicians learn to clarifuscate early in their careers.

When my physics teacher tried to explain how to work the deadly tesla coil for the lab, he ended up clarifuscating me until my eyes were glassy and my drool was seeping onto my shirt. This resulted in me frying myself and setting the school on fire. Too bad I was dead to see the prison burn.

InactiveSync 

How to describe Microsoft's ActiveSync utility when it's not working properly--which is most of the time.
I hope you fry in hell, InactiveSync.

pingular 

A replacement for plural, since it rhymes with singular and is much easier to pronounce.
Griffins is pingular for griffin.

ice meme 

The thought of global ape domination is indeed an ice meme. Wait, there's already an ape running a superpower...maybe we aren't too far from it after all! We're doomed!