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Definitions by railtracksurvivor

Freddie Mercury at LiveAid, 1985.
Has there ever been a performance to compare?
"That YouTube vid of Mercury is godrock!"
Sound, Mate - but anyone else qualifies?"
"Nah - that was the definitve Godrock"
godrock by railtracksurvivor April 26, 2008
Something between a word and a phrase. In the increasingly action-driven (rather than dictionary-led) lexicon that is modern English (aka World), there is a category of items that are neither a (single) word, nor a (full) phrase.
"I'll go to the bank - but taking my cheques, this time," said David. "That's joined-up thinking."
"'Joined-up-thinking' - that's a wase that Blair doesn't use these days, now he's envoying in the Middle East!" quipped his colleague
wase by railtracksurvivor December 21, 2007

pretaliation 

Getting your revenge in first.
Do unto him before he can do unto you, if you like.
A guy looks at you nastily across a rugby scrum; next maul, you tear his ear off, before he does the same, or worse, to you. You have completed pretaliation. Anything he does after that is retaliation, which referees always come down on harder than on the original malefactor.
"Did you see Tonto get his pretaliation in on that mean-looking winger?"
"Yeah, he'll be counting his ribs for a month! What a kick! Bet Tonto keeps out of his way for the rest of the game, though!"
pretaliation by railtracksurvivor November 1, 2007

Tri-Halonaut 

A committed, even fanatical, player of Halo 3, a game.
"Young Fred has become a complete Tri-Halonaut since the damned game came out," bemoaned his Mum, already inured to seeing her boy briefly at meal-times, "and it's only been on issue for a few days!".
Tri-Halonaut by Railtracksurvivor October 13, 2007

Ping Cuisine

Food cooked in a micro-wave oven, but sold for profit in, for example, a pub. Particularly applicable where the menu puffs the food - 'scrumptious' 'lip-smacking', etc. Contrasts with 'home-made', which at least implies that the food was cooked from basic ingredients.
'The food at this pub is ping cuisine, and over-priced to boot,' said Bish, memorably.
Ping Cuisine by railtracksurvivor January 2, 2007