Person who is sitting in a public place, usually unaware that s/he is taking up two desired spaces, and later dozes off, legs spreadeagled and head lolling from one side to the other, further preventing access to those spaces. "Quartertone" comes from a musical term for tones that fall "between the cracks" on a piano keyboard, common in Asia but infrequent in music on our side of the globe.
I couldn't get a seat on the bus because some quartertone was sitting between the divider on the bench and nodding off!
by pentozali August 08, 2009
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Suffix used to intensify a word's meaning. Modeled after names of countries, e.g. Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc.
That store is Zilchistan. They only have cellular phones there. Forget about finding any good, old-fashioned phones!
by pentozali March 02, 2006
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Organic chemistry, because of the appearance of benzene rings and similar structures used to notate the shapes of molecules.
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