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New York Accent

A New York Accent is how working class whites in the city speak. It involves dropping r's off words that have them (father-fatha) and adding them to words that don't (soda-sodar). Changing and adding "oi" in words (oil-erl). Pronouncing the "th" as a "d" or "t" (the-da)(through-trew). There are three major New York accents:Italian, Irish, and Jewish. Blacks speak differently that would not be considered a New York accent. The New York Accent is more prominant in older people and is being lost in younger people as they imitate fake upper class whites from the midwest that they see on tv.
Guy 1: I'm gonna take da LIE tah go see my fatha out on da island.
Guy 2: You have a heavy New York Accent
Guy 3: Yeah, I was born in Bushwick
by gomets1221 July 19, 2006
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Genetic Accident

Someone so ugly it looks as though they were conceived invitro in order to be the most repugnant human on earth
by RagePrblm July 21, 2003
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Acceptable Losses

A shift in epidemic management, that transitions from a life-preserving Social Isolation strategy into an Economy Salvaging mode with implicit increase in death toll.
Hey, it's almost been 2 weeks since we started sheltering in place and the COVID-19 spread has only gotten worse.
EVERYONE JUST GO BACK TO WORK...we'll take the Acceptable Losses as long as the stock market is propped up.
by YAWA March 23, 2020
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Abercrombie Accent

What is obtained from working too long for the Abercrombie corporation or a natural born gift that leads you to Abercrombie/Hollister/Gilly Hicks. Speech patterns turn everything into a bored drawl with hyper inflections on "like" and "I don't know".
Did you go out last night?" "Ahh, like, kinda... I mean, I don't know. I guess I hung out with Bobby for, like, a while. It was pretty hott. I don't know, like, what did you do?" "Can you repeat that without your Abercrombie Accent please?"
by DiscoDelight March 3, 2011
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Beare's Law of Accelerating Catastrophe at Sea - BLAC

At sea a problem can accelerate into a crisis at a rate proportional to the conditions
An example of Beare's Law of Accelerating Catastrophe at Sea - BLAC.

Imagine you are at sea and sailing along nicely a few miles off the coast of Corsica. You have the Genoa poled out and are running downwind. You are single handed. You pop down below to make yourself a cup of tea. Everything is fine. All of a sudden the wind shifts and you gybe. The pole slams across the forestay bent; the genoa is backed and the pole is trapped under the sail. As the boat lurches you are scolded with coffee. You rush on deck to sea the wind picking up and the boat floundering.

You are confident you will soon bring things under control. However, the wind is gusting alarmingly. A squawl from the hills. You cannot get the whisker pole off to furl the sail. You look up and in horror you see a ship coming at you dead ahead. The wind gusts and the boat is knocked down. You slip and land hard on deck bruising your arm.

And so it accumulates as you experience Beare's Law of Accelerating Catastrophe at Sea - BLAC.
by Angus Beare December 15, 2008
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accidial

when you accidentially dial someone from your mobile phone by having it bang against something.
I accidialed my ex-husband when my phone got thrown into my purse.
by Trexgirl December 20, 2008
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Access card

The State of Pennsylvania's form of a Welfare card. Naturally abused by most (not all, I'm sure a minority of those using it actually DO put it to the intended use), the Access card is a bitch for the rest of us. It always works out that some asshole on Welfare is right in front of you in the "8 Items or Less" checkout with potato chips, a case of motor oil, weave, ass loads of kool-aid, a box of rubbers (ironically), a Snickers bar, a case of toilet paper, and some milk. As if it wasn't bad enough that the ignorant bastard has more than 8 items, then they have to seperate the order into two orders...the Access order, and the <i>Pennsylvania Says 'Fuck You' Lazy Ass</i> order. So first comes the order paid in cash, which goes well. Then out comes the greenish-blue and yellow Access card! **stabs chest with car keys** So Captain 3-tooth swipes his card for the fourth time, and still a denial message. Why, you ask? Well Mr.DipShit didn't notice that he doesn't have shit on his card!!! It's over halfway through the month, what did he expect?
After holding up the checkout for 15 minutes, LaShaniqua gave up on the sixteenth swipe of her Access card and pulled out a Benjamin, got a receipt, and we all clapped.
by Josh the Expo October 20, 2006
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