octopod's definitions

stuffed shirt

A wealthy, self-important, overly formal type; a fellow with a stick up his arse. A pompous ass.

"Have your heard? Cholmondely is in love with a horse!"
"Do tell! Is it a mare or a stallion?"
"Oh, a mare, of course. Nothing queer about Cholmondely!"

by octopod February 24, 2004

crazed weasels

Putatively horny and out-of-control rutting beasts.

They checked into the Motel 6 and fucked like crazed weasels.

by octopod November 22, 2003

hoi polloi

Namby-pamby phrase for the masses, or the great unwashed. Fr. Ancient Greek "the many." Saying "the hoi polloi" is an ineffictive attempt at literary snobbery

We read The Atlantic; hoi polloi read People.

by octopod June 12, 2004

dead tree media

Newspapers and magazines, as opposed to talk radio and the Blogosphere.

I picked up the Times in the bus station the other day. Nothing in that dead tree media!

by octopod April 20, 2006

Sweet Potato Queens

A purportedly humorous cult of Southern women given to vulgar displays at local agrarian parades.

She became a complete Sweet Potato Queens groupie, and soon after lost her reason.

by octopod November 5, 2003

go all ghetto

Behave in a stereotypically African-American manner, either in dress, languance, or ass whuppin'.

If you don't shut up, I'ma go all ghetto on yo' triflin' cracka ass.

by octopod August 4, 2007

candy ass

Coward, chicken, pussy, effete cookie-pusher

That candy ass not only wouldn't go to Iraq, he wouldn't go east of Sepulveda

by Octopod November 7, 2003