mandingoe's definitions

green tea

Green tea is the new aloe.
Green tea can cure cancer, lupus, shingles, and hemroids.

Barberess at Hairkuttery: Would you like the tea tree shampoo?
Contra-Dictionarian: What's that?
Barberess at Hairkuttery: Green tea is the new aloe.
Contra-Dictionarian: Sweet - maybe that will cure my crabs.

by Mandingoe April 25, 2006

postal

1. to go on a shooting spree, especially at a workplace

2. to snap out in a psychotic rage

OK OK, don't go postal over it.

by mandingoe May 18, 2004

big swinging dick

1. the financial industry's term for a rainmaker; a Wall Street executive who brings in enormous amounts of money for the firm, possibly because he has just screwed a customer.

An expression made famous by Michael Lewis in Liar’s Poker, published in 1989.

2. a mover and shaker in any organization

Calling some one a dick is an insult.
Calling some one a big dick is a bigger insult.
Calling some one a big swinging dick is a term of respect.

Not a nickname for a large gorilla named Richard.

But Dick Perle didn't want to be a mere influence peddler. He wanted to be a businessman, a venture capitalist, a Big Swinging Dick.

by mandingoe October 5, 2004

Guantanamo Bay

1. v. {Origin uncertain, but likely from the Spanish aguantar, to bear, endure, put up with + the colloquial no mo', no more} to be unable to bear; to find unacceptable, to refuse to endure for even one second longer.

2. n. {Origin uncertain, but in common use in Arabic-, Pashto-, and Urdu-speaking regions} a. a purgatory. An intermediate floor of hell. b. the mythical final place of confinement of the W and his court, immediately following the Great Upheaval but prior to the Grand Awakening and the Glorious Final Making Amends and Mellowing the Fuck Out Forever After of that nation.

3. n. a vast butterfly-and-wildflower preserve on the Caribbean island of Cuba.

alternate contraction: gitmo
—BEN EHRENREICH

Dick Cheney spent the last years of his life in an outdoor cell in the blazing sun of Guantanamo Bay being forced to listen to "Midnight at the Oasis" nonstop at high decibels. Like most chicken hawks, he didn't last long.

by mandingoe August 9, 2004

dotcom

some thing that falls fast

The number of teams with a chance of making it to the playoffs is dropping like a dotcom stock.

Variant: dropping like stock in Enron

by mandingoe June 16, 2004

I kid you not

this incredible anecdote is indeed bona fide; I vouch for the veracity of this statement

A common utterance among guys who wear wifebeaters (GWWW)

synonym: I swear to God.

So then she just stuck the whole thing in her mouth. I kid you not.

by mandingoe September 30, 2004

punch it in

to bump fists, knuckle to knuckle, when something good happens or someone says something you firmly agree with. All the fun of a high five, but less dorky.

McSweeney's accepted your piece?! Punch it in!

by mandingoe October 8, 2004