boiled prawn

A sunburnt white person, who looks out of place in sunny climes.

Check out the old boiled prawn at the bus-stop. She's going to get sunstroke and die any moment now.

by Mogdi January 04, 2018

boiling flowers in the wing

An exclamation to notify someone that they have done something really stupid

If something has done something truly stupid and uncalled for, like setting a church with people inside on fire, you'd say.
"OH MAH GAWD, FREDDY! DARN IT, THAT'S LIKE BOILING FLOWERS IN THE WING!"

by bridget February 07, 2004

A watched pot never boils

To wait anxiously for something to happen. It will seem to take a very long time or not at all.

This strategy is doomed from the start because it is far too public: a watched pot never boils.

by M2H November 13, 2023

Ocean Boiling

A thesis with a range wider than the ocean, is comprehensive and irrefutable, so impactful it is ocean boiling.
(Other similar expressions here call it fruitless or impossible, it has always had a positive connotation to me.)

We are so competitive thanks to our Ocean Boiling marketing strategy, ticking all the boxes.

by November 13, 2021

Boil-o

A magical substance that casues water to boil. This word was invented by Vsauce.

What if there was a stove that emitted boil-o that would cause water to boil?

by Eushshtb September 17, 2021

Boil-o

A term coined by Michael Stevens of Vsauce, Boil-o is an invisible, undetectable, unverifiable/unfalsifiable substance that appears whenever things begin to boil. While, yes, the phenomenon of boiling is perfectly explained without Boil-o, Boil-o is still there.

Boil-o is used as an example of redundancy. If a phenomena is perfectly explained without something, why include the something?

"Johnny: Yo man, I'm cooking up some pasta, you want some?
Mike: Yeah, sure, just start boiling the water.
Johnny: Don't you mean "apply BOIL-O to the water?"
Mike: For fucks sake, John, I don't want to get into this philosophy shit, it's been a long day, just- just tell me when you're done, alright?
Johnny: Jeez man, fine, I'll tell you when it's done.
Mike: Thank you.

by Hexiliac June 08, 2022

Boil-o

A magical substance which emerges when heating water over a gas stove which has the same effect of heating water as the burning gas.

You cannot disprove or argue the existence of boil-o!

by 原 April 12, 2022