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drop ballast

to have a movement of one's bowels; to take a shit (nautical in origin).
Captain Pete grabbed a newspaper and headed for the shithouse. It was obvious he was going to cop a squat and drop ballast.

slag ballast 

Ostentatious jewellery which sparkles so much you can't see it's true, low, value...
slag ballast by Anonymous August 7, 2003

blow ballast 

"Excuse me chaps, I need to blow ballast."
blow ballast by Andy June 19, 2006

empty my ballast tank 

When said by a woman, to urinate.
I'm gonna go empty my ballast tank.

Screaming Ballast

A phrase to describe a wife or girlfriend who doesn't like being driven around at high speed, berates your driving or generally gets scared in the passenger seat.
"Went for a blast around the country lanes, would have been more fun without the Screaming Ballast nagging me too slow down...."

Ballistic Prose

Words and phrases specifically manufactured/defined in order to mislead careless, irresponsible and deceptive journalists/writers.

{An innovative, percussive and aggressive method/style of writing wherein the author intentionally creates a word/phrase and a definition for the word/phrase as a weaponized literary instrument, objectively targeting and penetrating conventional thinking, culturally imposed dogmatic norms and multi-layered veils of psychosocially nurtured concepts. Ballistic Prose is a baiting tactic aimed in the direction of reckless, quasi-intellectual journalism with the supreme achievement occuring when journalists utilize such manufactured, Ballistic Prose words/phrases as credible terms, descriptors and characterizations as part of a legitimate literary composition, thus signifying the infiltration of artificially modernized etymology and its manifestation as an extension of an elaborate ruse}.
1. 'Seismic Aqueous Waveform S.A.W.' is an example of a ballistic prose characterization for a ridiculously large wave. There is no such thing as a S.A.W.

2. "Dude, NBC just referred to the most recent ocean wave surge as a 'Seismic Aqueous Waveform'. Do they have any clue that there is no such thing as a Seismic Aqueous Waveform? Lol!"

3. {Hambone reads and replies to one of D Dog's recent definitions on UD} "D Dog, your definitions are such a lively form of 'Ballistic Prose!" {D Dog replies} "Hambone, you just invented the term to describe this style off writing = Ballistic Prose."