(PDX-o-dus) Noun: (1) The swift and thorough departure from a place en route to Portland, Oregon. A combination of the Portland airport code (PDX) and the word 'exodus.'
(2) The resolute fleeing of a place in search of a friendlier, more prolific tech community. As in the sentence "The mess in the Best Buy parking lot was left behind by the PDXodus."
When the consecutive digits of a barcode pop up among the digits of the decimal number π, which might lead the discoverer to suspect whether there could be some hidden message from a deity or the devil to them and their loved ones.
Paul inquired from both Western and Eastern numerologists on the meaning or significance of the picode, which came to him through a dream some three-odd weeks ago.
"Watch this," Jenks whispered. My eyebrows rose as the pixy flitted from my earring. The autumn sun coming in was suddenly full of sparkles as he surreptitiously sifted a glowing dust over the detective. I'd bet my best pair of lace panties it wasn't the usual pixy dust. Glenn had been pixed.
I hid a smile. In about twenty minutes Glenn would be itching so bad he wouldn't be able to sit still.
The act of being cursed by a fay creature, usually a pixie or other imp-like mischievous being of faerie.
"Watch this," Jenks whispered. My eyebrows rose as the pixy flitted from my earring. The autumn sun coming in was suddenly full of sparkles as he surreptitiously sifted a glowing dust over the detective. I'd bet my best pair of lace panties it wasn't the usual pixy dust. Glenn had been pixed. I hid a smile. In about twenty minutes Glenn would be itching so bad he wouldn't be able to sit still. ~ Kim Harrison (The Good the Bad and the Undead)