194 definitions by octopod

America's sweetheart

Tonya Harding is America's sweetheart

by octopod June 29, 2004

Impressive at first but with experience, found to be stupid or unimaginative

"That John Kerry seems to have gravitas."
"He's a mile wide and an inch deep."

by octopod April 11, 2004

Annoying misuse of the word 'anyway." Probably part of the language now, just to annoy curmudgeons like me.

So, she's all "Anyways, let's go shopping at Target! "

by octopod May 30, 2004

The leader of the "pervert pirates" in S. Clay Wilson's comix.

Captain Pissgums had an immense knurled rod.

by octopod November 24, 2003

Balls, testicles (Italian); meaning courage, strength of character, masculinity. See break my balls

That Kerry, he was in the war, but in politics he ain't got no coglioni

by octopod April 28, 2004

Stalinoid or Bolshevik for "group." Reeks with self-importance and in-groupiness.

They used to go out drinking. I suppose they called themselves the "Beer Collective."

by octopod November 30, 2003

African-American. The former "polite" term, replaced by "Negro," then by "black," now by "African-American."

White folks in Washington
They sure know how
To call a colored man a nigger,
Just to see him bow.
-- Lead Belly, "Bourgeois Blues"

by octopod June 13, 2004