The Hourglass Theory states that the first eighteen years of a man's social life is like an eighteen-year hourglass - once high school ends, the hourglass flips, and the jocks end up on the streets eating dog shit, while all the nerds get money and bitches. This theory applies to roughly 95% of said jocks and nerds.
(adj) Descriptive term used by a woman with an hourglass figure ie: large boobs, small waist & large hips who is unhappy with the largeness of the boobs and hips in proportion to the waist. Gives the idea the person would be happier with a smaller hourglass, one with less sand in it perhaps...
Sam: You have such a lovely hourglass figure, Ellie.
n. An extreme form of the drinking game Beirut. The set up calls for the entire back row of the pyramid of cups to fill up the width of the playing table and continuing until it reaches the middle of the table.
Man, we were playing beirut last night and decided to up the ante to hourglass. I totally blacked out. Good thingsomeone took pictures.
A state in which a computer is "thinking" and is currently unresponsive. Not exactly frozen, hourglassing gives a potentially false sense of action on the part of the computer.
Most common on systems running various forms of the Windows operating system. I'm sure Mac/Linux GUI users have their own terms for it.
CSR: You'll have to bear with me a moment, my PC is hourglassing.
ME: Hourglassing, eh? Is that the technical term for it?