parable

A kind of story.
Most parables are short and have a special meaning.

Franz Kafka has written many parables

by bonio05 November 6, 2005

para-site

A para-site is a website that lives off the popularity of another (usually very popular) web site. Para-sites do this by spamming links pointing to their own site on another more popular website to gain traffic.

Because the web sites these para-sites spam on have so much traffic it means that even if they manage to siphon off only a small percentage of visitors they still get a lot more hits than they would have usually. (mainly because para-sites alone are of little interest to the average Internet user and of low quality)

Most para-sites will also have a lot of advertising on their websites. This is so they can gain revenue and the main reason para-sites exists. To make money without any effort and by the popularity of others.

The name originates from the real term "parasite" which means:
"A plant or animal that for all or part of its life obtains food and physical protection from a living organism of another species which is usually damaged by and never benefits from its presence. A person who lives at the expense of others, contributing nothing in return."

Para-sites would not exists without the large and popular sites they "feed" off.
For example on the known video site 'youtube.com' which allows comments, para-site owners or their bots will try and spam comments containing links to their own site, that lead to their site to gain more visitors and hits.

Another very good example is on the site "RottenTomatoes" where para-site owners and bots will spam what seem to be vaguely helpful links to images and "previews" of movies in the comment section of a movie release review, in order to try and get you to go to their site and make them money.

by BOiNG.Inc January 26, 2008

Pacman

Common term used for police officers in the late 80s and early 90s. The use of this term was made popular by the 1988 police procedural crime film Colors.

Yo Wood check that bitch ass Pacman.

Hay Jonathan could keep an eye on that Pacman following us.

by jesusdangerchrist July 29, 2009

pamanda

A general term for a sandwich. It's like saying you want a coke when you want a soda, but not necessarily a coca-cola.

Pamanda with cheese and onions, pamanda melt, spicy pamanda, grilled pamanda, pamanda club, plain pamanda, pamanda on rye

by chuck harris January 6, 2009

para

Sort of something, but not quite.

Paramilitary; sort of military
Paramedic; sort of a medic

by Kevinn January 31, 2007

PacMan

PacMan is that little yellow fucker who runs away from the ghosts trying to eat all the dots and fruit

he also makes an appearance in the Bloodhound Gang song titled "Mope"

Excerpt from the Bloodhound Gang song "Mope"

PacMan: Yo yo yo yo! What it is motherfuckers!
Dude 1: Aww shit... here comes PacMan...
Dude 2: Hey PacMan. What's up?
PacMan: Me, you bitches! I'm high on crack! Wanna freebase?
Dude 1: No PacMan! Drugs are bad...
Dude 2: Nope. Can't help you man...
PacMan: Pussies...*freebases crack* Whooooaaaaaa!!!! HOLY SHIT!!

by scary bear September 26, 2006

Palmas

The hood/ghetto way of saying Palm Springs , most people think that Palm Springs is a nice gay filled , rich area , but it actually has multiple gangs , high crime rate but remains a tourist destination,

Yeah foo I’m from palmas

by AFOOFROMPALMAS🌴 December 15, 2019