make-and-break engine

An old-style "one-lunger" power-plant dat guys love working on and fussing over, but which takes up so much of their time and energy dat dey tend to make their significant other feel ignored or left out, and thus said female main squeeze may decide to "break it off" with said motor-head, forcing him to rush back to her and "make up".

Bert Dow was not married; his sister Lela lived with him to cook and keep house. So while she may have been irritated at da noise of --- and da time dat Bert spent servicing --- da make-and-break engine on his "Tidely Idley" boat, she was probably not gonna go so far as to bail on him because of it.

by QuacksO February 1, 2023

Engineer

He solves problems. Not problems like "What is beauty?", because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. He solves practical problems. For instance, how am I going to stop some big mean Mother Hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer? Use a gun. And if that don't work? Use more gun. Like this heavy caliber tripod-mounted little ol' number designed by him, built by him, and you best hope.... not pointed at you

Heavy: Engineer, put dispenser here (pootis)

by Melodic Whale March 2, 2020

Startling the engine

A phrase used in the mechanics world for turning on an engine and turning it off in under a second.

Stop startling the engine you'll ruin the starter!!

by Honda_Otaku December 2, 2016

fool stack engineer

A backend engineer that fools around with the frontend.

I have a wide array of backend experience but don't hesitate to jump in on frontend projects because I am a fool stack engineer after all.

by foolin-around August 2, 2022

Prompt Engineer

A useless person.

As a useless person, any "prompt engineer" can be instantly replaced by anyone else without any decrease in output quality.

by Everton Stromberg May 31, 2024

Good Engineer

Someone who makes a bad salesman look good

You can rely on a good engineer to pull it out of their a55 to make the salesman look good

by Paulgt January 14, 2025

How-To Engineer

It describes the new generation of youth that can't endure the drudge work different engineering disciplines require to master and adopt a way of googling and copy/pasting their way to saying I'm good at something

(person A starts coding two days ago)
A: I managed to make a calculator software with python, I should totally apply for a software engineering job
B: You're not a software engineer buddy, you're a How-To Engineer

by noisy96 March 8, 2019