Hinkley Effect

The lingering, long-term damage caused to an area by chemical contamination at the hands of a major corporation.

Made famous by the movie "Erin Brockovich", the town of Hinkley, California suffered large scale contamination of its drinking water with hexavalent chromium, a lethal chemical known to cause cancer and damage the respiratory system, kidneys, liver, skin and eyes. In 1996 the residents of Hinkley were awarded the largest settlement payout in history from PG&E, but many left the area afterwards, fearing continued deception at the hands of the company. It's now largely a ghost town - that's the Hinkley Effect.

by Danny Anonymous September 27, 2020

Hinkle-huck

(V) to go big and hope for the best when all bets are off.

1. "Did you study for that math midterm?"
"No I just Hinkle-hucked it..."

2. "What did you try to do on that last wave?"
" I don't even know. I just Hinkle-hucked it."

by Skinn Rols September 3, 2014

Huckle

A geordie word meaning a person of the homosexual persuasion.

Ah divvent kna aboot him, like. He looks a bit of a huckle to me.

by Fistythegland October 25, 2019

huckleberry

"Huckleberry" was commonly used in the 1800's in conjunction with "persimmon" as a small unit of measure. "I'm a huckleberry over your persimmon" meant "I'm just a bit better than you." As a result, "huckleberry" came to denote idiomatically two things. First, it denoted a small unit of measure, a "tad," as it were, and a person who was a huckleberry could be a small, unimportant person--usually expressed ironically in mock self-depreciation. The second and more common usage came to mean, in the words of the "Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented Edition" (Crowell, 1975):

"A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a particular purpose. 1936: "Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr. Haney." Tully, "Bruiser," 37. Since 1880, archaic.

The "Historical Dictionary of American Slang" which is a multivolume work, has about a third of a column of citations documenting this meaning all through the latter 19th century.

So "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm just the man you're looking for!"

"I'm your huckleberry..." Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone

by kilo February 23, 2005

Hundle

The collective noun for a group bars or pubs

Driver, take me to nearest hundle with the most bitches

by jakcliff April 9, 2015

Hunkey-Dorey

A situation where everything is ok, after a problem has been worked out.

She was choking on watermelon, but now everything's hunkey-dorey.

by !Luke June 4, 2007

The Reverse Huckle-Buck

A sexual position, where a womans ankels are behind her head while she lays face down, the man then stands with his feet beside her thighs, the man then squats down and inserts his Penis into her Vagina, then he reaches under her legs from the outside and grabs the back of her head, (in a form similar to a full nelson) lastly the man thrust his hips violently until he ejaculates.

I took this girl home from the bar lastnight and threw her sexy little ass in The Reverse Huckle-Buck, "it was awesome!"

by Owen David November 30, 2011