Rastus

1. Rastus, the Cream of Wheat chef, created circa 1890 by Emery Mapes, one of the owners of Diamond Milling Company. Mapes adapted the image of an African American chef for a wood-cut image used as a logo for the product. In the 1920s, the woodcut image was replaced by the face of a Chicago waiter who was paid $5 to pose in a chef's hat and jacket. This logo has been used with only slight modifications until the present day.

2. A stereotype of the jolly, former slave, and a character of the coon type often featured in minstrel shows.

3. A pejorative name used by white folk for African American males in the 20th Century.

"By no means a lesser virtue of Toole's novel is his rendering of the particularities of New Orleans, its back streets, its out-of-the-way neighborhoods, its odd speech, its ethnic whites -- and one black in whom Toole has achieved the near-impossible, a superb comic character of immense wit and resourcefulness without the least trace of Rastus minstrelsy."

--Walker Percy, Foreword to 'A Confederacy of Dunces'

by Tunmy AuGratin April 10, 2006

rapture bunny

A dogmatic follower of End-Times or Armageddon Christianity, otherwise known as dispensationalism begun by John Darby in early 1800s England.

The Reverend John Hagee is the chief rapture bunny in the U.S.

by Dave Stern September 23, 2006

Goat Rapture

The Goat Rapture is like the Rapture movie, but instead of people being sucked into the sky, the goats of the world are slowly disappearing.

*goat noise slowly drifts upwards*

Will: Hey, James did you here that?

James: Don't worry it's probably just the impending doom of the Goat Rapture.

Will: Oh, never mind then.

by TeamCade May 13, 2016

anal rapture

a case of extreme explosive diarrhea; usually caused by excessive ingestion of chili.

Don't go in the bathroom for a while. The anal rapture caused by the three scoops of chili at Mongolian Barbeque is going to need some time!

by Travoltine January 13, 2009

Rapturbation

Due to the near unanswerable question of "What is it called if you rape you're own clone? Rape or masturbation?" a new word has been invented to answer this question.

I totally rapturbated last night.

Rapturbation? Is that legal?

by IXTakaXI October 18, 2009

Rapture

A place where a man is entitled to the sweat of his own brow.

Welcome to Rapture.

by Peaches Wilkins March 22, 2009

rapturefarian

A person who is so convinced of the world's imminent demise that they pollute, waste, litter, and generally don't care.

Mark:"Man, I can't believe that guy is driving a hummer"
Peter:"Yeah i hate those Rapturefarians!"

by Mikkel NIelsen May 26, 2008