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ghostwriter

somebody who writes lyrics secretly for another person and they get payed to do it
1)Nas ghostwrites for FoxyBrown
by Lip November 6, 2003
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ghostwrite the 'script

Ghostwriting a scientific manuscript (e.g., one to be published in a major medical journal). A play on the phrase "ghostride the whip" popularized by hip hop culture from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Executive from big pharma: "How can we present the data from our new drug study in a credible, impartial light?"
Ghostwriter: "I'll ghostwrite the 'script, negotiate with a highly regarded physician for authorship, and submit it to the New England Journal of Medicine."
by madbay November 18, 2009
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ghostshipping

The act of getting into a position requiring responsible actions, and then appearing to cease actively handling those responsibilities. Especially when remaining connected to those responsibilities through a position or title. Distance, privacy, or other factors usually make it unclear to others whether or when ghostshipping has begun and this point becomes hotly debated.
He's been ghostshipping that long-distance relationship with his highschool sweetheart ever since his Spring Break fling.

The famous racecar driver sued the team manager for ghostshipping, since the manager started spending all his time with a female driver he managed and stopped overseeing the main team.

The stock price of the internet company fell as the CEO made poor decisions, but the boardmembers who could have stopped him weren't paying attention, they were just a bunch a sorry-ass layabouts ghostshipping their way to huge, easy quarterly stipends.
by C-Mulch December 17, 2008
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Ghost Shit

When you take that monster shit, and then go to wipe your ass, but theres nothing there. It's like it never happened... :|
Kelsey: Hey Matt you almost done in there?
Matt: Yeah but we're out of toilet paper...
oh wait its a ghost shit nevermind its coo.
by Telan July 1, 2008
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ghost shit

When you shit and whipe your ass and its clean. *then you look in the toilet, the shit went down the hole, thus simulating the effect that your shit never existed.

*the first condition is enough to constitute a ghost shit.
by HPB April 5, 2003
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Ghostwriter

A famous song by the rapper Mad Skillz (now renamed Skillz). In that song, he says he had written lyrics for many "artists"
(such as P. Diddy, Jermaine Dupri, Will Smith, Mase etc.) as a ghostwriter and never get paid for his writing talents ! The song have the names censored, but in a live show Skillz reveals the names of motherf*ckers who don't gave the cash to the real author of "their" rhymes.
I'm a ghostwriter, im the cat that you dont see / I write hits for rappers you like and charge 'em a fee
by Ty McIntyre September 29, 2006
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ghostwriter

The literary equivalent of the fat old guys who sang on the Milli Vanilli records. In other words, a writer who writes under someone else's name with their consent. The so-called author gets his or her name printed on the cover and receives credit for the writing while the ghostwriter does the actual work.

Celebrity and politician autobiographies are usually ghostwritten, due to the "author" having no writing talent whatsoever. What, you think Jenna Jameson and Hillary Clinton actually wrote their books?

Ghostwriters are also disturbingly common in fiction, not that anyone gives a rat's ass that Tom Clancy doesn't actually write his crappy novels.
Even if you think Harry Potter sucks, the author at least deserves credit for actually writing the books instead of hiring a ghostwriter.
by ToiletDuck September 14, 2005
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