Berkeley

A politically progressive California city of 110,000 across the Bay from San Francisco.

Home of the Free Speech Movement, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green Day, Counting Crows, and the University of California (Go Bears!) a.k.a. "Cal".

The elements Berkelium (Bk), Californium (Cf), and Americium (Am), among others, were discovered at U.C. Berkeley.

The cradle of the anti-Vietnam war movement (which led to Goveror Ronald Regan tear-gassing his own citizens). Early opponents to the "Patriot Act" and the Iraq war.

First city to:
-- divest (remove investments) from South Africa, accelerating the end of Apartheid.
-- covert its entire diesel fleet to biodiesel fuel.
-- enact a comprehensive smoking ban.
-- voluntarily implement city-wide school busing.
-- implement curb-side recycling.
-- install curb cuts in sidewalks for wheelchairs and bicycles.
-- prohibit the sale of ozone-destroying styrofoan fast-food cups and clam-shell containers.

Barbara Lee, the only U.S. Congressman to vote against giving Pretzeldent Bush the authority to attach Afghanistan and Iraq, represents Berkeley.

Home to the "How Berkeley Can You Be" parade each September.

"When something happens in Berkeley, it spreads."

-- Tom Bates

by Hugh Johnson September 20, 2005

Berkemeyer

Of Germain origin... people who can drink like hell, loyal, passionate, serious

Berkemeyer tanked that keg last night dude!

by The Berkemeyer August 11, 2009

berkelium

An obscure radioactive element named after a university or summat.

You're about as popular as Berkelium.

by MrSplinch March 24, 2017

Berke Döner

Berke Döner, the hottest man in the world and EVERYONE knows he is hot. When you see him naked you will feint 100%. His dick is so big that you cant even see it from your eye sight. But he is a funny and a nice guy, you cant hate him he is Berke.

Omg you look pretty today like Berke Döner

by Anita kok October 9, 2021

Juice Berkley

Juice Berkley is used as a name to scapegoat something incredibly unbelievable, usually in a good way.

Who taught you that?
Juice Berkley.

Juice Berkley killed the dinosaurs and saved the world.

Juice Berkley is juicy.

by Kenneth Eng March 7, 2009

dirty berkley

(verb)
The act of taking a picture of a girls credit card after you shit on her chest.

Mike: yo that girl was a straight bitch last night
Todd: yeah I know that's why I hit her with the dirty Berkley and ordered a Fleshlight off Amazon nigga.

by Trippytanya April 8, 2020

Berkeley

The birthplace of the free speech movement at the University of California at Berkeley in 1965. The epicenter of left wing politics in the 1960's and 1970's. A funky college town filled with aging hippies, university students and upwardly mobile young families. The location of the confrontation between police and protestors in People's Park in May 1969, where student protestor James Rector was shot and killed by police. The birthplace of new French and California cuisine through Alice Waters' Chez Panisse restaurant. The city where German film director Werner Herzog ate his shoe. The birthplace of the Acme Bread Company and Peets' Coffee & Tea, the coffeehouse chain that pioneered direct purchase of coffee beans from growers and would influence Starbucks and numerous other chains. Location of Moe's Books and Krishna Copy Center, the first photocopy center in the U.S.A.

Man, Berkeley was the center of the universe in the sixties and seventies.

by DeborahKLA July 14, 2010