Jabberwock

1. n. a fictional monster appearing in the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. In the poem, a "beamish boy" slays the Jabberwock by beheading it. The Jabberwock is described as having "eyes of flame", living in a "tulgey wood" and "whiffling" and "burbling" as as it moves. John Tenniel, the original illustrator of the poem, drew the Jabberwock as a bipedal anthropomorphic dragon creature with a long, bending neck, a sucker-like mouth with four comically large and flat incisors, two barbels and two antennae, a fringe of long white whiskers, large hairy talon-like hands (with a thumb and three fingers each) and humanlike feet (with three toes each), pupil- and iris-less eyes, two black wings, a long tail, and a waistcoat.

2. n. made-up words, such as those used by Lewis Carroll in the poem "Jabberwocky".

3. n. a text which exemplifies such made-up words, such as "Jabberwocky", "The Owl and the Pussycat", and everything by Dr. Seuss.

4. n. any nonsense or gibberish.
1) The creature is called a "Jabberwock", not a "Jabberwocky". Sorry, Tim Burton.

2) When I read Dr. Seuss I sometimes get confused by all the jabberwock.

3) "The Owl and the Pussycat", from which we have derive the word "runcible spoon", is a famous jabberwock.

4) Shut your jabberwock! I'm trying to study.
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outgrabe

v. the past tense of outgribe, a word coined by Lewis Carroll.
Last Thanksgiving I sat next to my aunt during dinner, and she outgrabe all over me for the whole meal.
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405

1. Interstate 405, which runs through southern California and Los Angeles.

2. called “the 405”, central Oklahoma and especially Oklahoma City. So called for its area code.

3. 405 "Method Not Allowed", an HTTP error code.
1. The 405 has archetypal bad traffic.

2. Back in the 405, we used to have it so good.

3. Um, John, why is there a big 405 on the screen?
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Blackberry Law

Blackberry Law dictates that if someone has blackberry bushes growing on their property near a road, these blackberries are free game for anyone to eat, regardless of trespassing. Someone who has roadside blackberries must honor Blackberry Law lest they be labeled a douche.
Blackberry Law: Roadside blackberries are free game for pedestrians and bicyclists.
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outgribe

v. to make a sound between a deep bellow, a whistle, and a sneeze.

verb forms: outgribe (present tense), outgribing (present participle), outgrabe (past tense), outgribben (past participle)
1. I always outgribe when a bug flies into my mouth.

2. Sometimes the seals are out outgribing on the beach.

3. Once my sister outgrabe when she stepped on a thistle.

4. I have never outgribben before. Have you?
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free game

(also "open game") : open for anyone to take or use; unclaimed, up for grabs.

Originally used in the sense of "game" as animals to be hunted.
Roadside blackberries are free game for anyone to eat.
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jabberwocky

adj. 1. like the Jabberwock. 2. ridiculous, impossible, or nonsensical; quixotic.

Unfortunately, Tim Burton's 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland" has perpetuated the misconception that "jabberwocky" is a noun. It is not. The poem exclusively refers to the creature as the "Jabberwock".
Christopher Lee, the actor who plays the Jabberwock in Tim Burton's film, is somewhat jabberwocky in appearance himself, if you ask me.
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