slick willy's definitions

also-ran

neither a loser nor a winner, inescapably more pathetic, less evocative of empathy, less romantic than winner or loser.

The Hollywood starlet had been attracted to champions and to down-and-outlaws, but the milquetoast also-ran in his Ford Pinto didn't even register beyond her retina.

by Slick Willy February 19, 2005

coinage

the act of coining or inventing new words

Few acts are as conceited, supercilious, and trite as coinage of contrived words, most of which will never see their day in the vernacular.

by Slick Willy March 16, 2005