paulpaxman's definitions

altfacto

In fact, or in effect, even though it's veracity is vague at best and truth long since left the room..

Steve Bannon has become the altfacto President of the United States, in place of the elected president Trump, vacillating as he does between tyranny and abdication.

by paulpaxman January 30, 2017

frothing

Collective noun for a group of conservatives.

A frothing of conservatives came out to follow the candidate after he asked for their support against what he called an onslaught of communists.

by paulpaxman June 5, 2012

booze mining

Booze mining is the practice of hiding a quantity of alcohol (and/or drugs) before the security goes up for an outdoor festival (say, like Lollapalooza) by burying it on the grounds, often with a geotag on the location, and digging it up after the show starts.

"What're you doing there?"
~ "I'm digging up my booze, man!"
"Dude, I so thought booze mining was an Urban Legend!"

by paulpaxman July 31, 2016

all ate up

horny for, crazy about, consumed by (especially with passion), intense (also intent on!), not easily distracted (from a goal)

That buck had them does in his sights and he was all ate up for them!

by paulpaxman August 20, 2013

precariat

Containing the meaning of and combining the two words precarious and proletariat, we arrive at a new word which aptly describes the job insecurity our current generation of graduates must deal with.

While the Wall Street fat-cats toast each others' success with champagne above the fray, the NYPD pick off the precariat protesters with pepper spray in the streets below.

by paulpaxman October 2, 2011

on your plate

What you've bitten off to chew; your responsibilities, either given to you or self-imposed.

Seeing the long list of chores he had written for himself to do in a day, the boy's mother said, "You've got an awful lot on your plate there, son!"

by paulpaxman January 21, 2010

teabugger

A right wing operator who gets caught with his pants down while trying to do the dirty in a public official's orifice; oh, I'm sorry, office.

Them teabuggers was pretty dumb if they thought they could just walk into Senator Landrieu's office and ask to fix the phones.

by paulpaxman January 27, 2010