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TARPaulin Parachute

A specific type of golden parachute which refers to executives who receive a disproportionately large reward, bonus or bailout despite being painfully incompetent at their job to tragic ends and use said reward in irresponsible ways.

This is most accurately directed at executives in the finance industry who received money from the TARP act intended to save the economy and, instead, used it irresponsibly.

In parts of the US, pronounced "tar-POLE-ee-in bailout."
Man, can you believe those fuckers at Citibank? Got a TARPaulin parachute and pissed it away on interior decorating, hookers and blow. Get the pitchforks and torches, I feel an old-school populist rage coming on.
by ghost_brigade February 8, 2009
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The Facebook Paradigm

The logic which has developed as a direct consequence of the impact facebook and other social networking sites has on society. Meaningful relationships are undermined as friends are reduced to contacts which are to be collected as commodities in the attempt to appear cool.

The pervasiveness of this ideology legitimates the increasing transience of social relationships.
In layman's terms it becomes cool to have a vast pool of contacts requiring too much time and effort to properly maintain. As such the people worthy of an individual's time and effort are determined by the rewards that come with associating with that individual.
I don't care how many facebook friends you have, I don't buy into the facebook paradigm.
by fluvial March 4, 2010
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Get off at Sydney Parade

To pull out of a girl before ejaculation. In direct reference to the Dublin dart stop 'Sydney Parade', the term was popularised by Ross O'Carroll Kelly and one of his novels, 'Should Have Got Off At Sydney Parade'. An Irish phrase.
I have no condoms, what the fuck am I going to do?

You'll just have to get off at Sydney Parade, my man.
by Ross O'Carroll Kelly November 27, 2019
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Paradiddle

The name given to a technical exercise (also known as 'rudiments') performed on a drum... by a drummer, consisting of an alternating pattern using both left and right hands. There are many types of Paradiddle, for example:
(R= right hand L= left hand)
Standard Paradiddle: RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL
Inverted Paradiddle: RLLR LRRL RLLR LRRL
Paradiddlediddle: RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRRLL
by The Paradiddle Pro December 11, 2004
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para para paradise

At first glance, PPP is indeed "DDR with hands," until you find out exactly what you are supposed to do in the game.

In Parapara Mode, you are to copy exactly what the person on the screen does. It is exactly the same every time, and has several repeated things to do for each individual song, making it a sort of standard dance routine. This is much easier to memorize, since it's not like you have to remember every single arrow; just the dance itself. Once you memorize the song, which is entirely possible, you can set the arrows and on-screen dancer to invisible, and look completely cool doing the routine, AND getting all the arrows correct in the process.

In freestyle mode, the on-screen dancer is still doing the parapara routine, but is not mirrored to you (the camera spins and goes around her constantly). Instead, you are given completely unrelated arrows, so that you are supposed to make up your own routine. Mostly though, people just set it on hard difficulty, and go into what we like to call "Crazy arm-waving mode." This gives PPP a bad name, and is NOT what the game is about.
Para Para Paradise is a test of personal nimbleness and memory, while showing off the same to onlookers.
by Kenthar March 11, 2004
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parachute

The act of ingesting a powdered drug wrapped in toilet paper or another similar kind of thin paper so as to avoid the nasty taste of the substance. Another use for this method is for the drug to suppousedly "hit your system faster" which is not always the case.
I accidentally crushed a bean(MDMA), and i didn't want to snort it or waste it, so i decided to parachute it.
by d.roc January 4, 2007
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Paraculo

- A smartass (someone who is obnoxiously self-assured)
- A cunning opportunist individual, sly in taking advantage of the social mechanisms that govern the world without showing it. Servile and brown noser towards power
- A Conman, someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust.
- "You are a big PARACULO!"
(You are a plain conman!)

- "...paraculo"
(you, smartass...)
by arugula1 December 20, 2012
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