Boomer Engineer

A seasoned pro from the golden age of drafting tables and floppy disks.
The Boomer Engineer is a master of analog solutions navigating a digital world.

Often seen squinting at a touchscreen or asking, "So... what is the cloud, exactly?".
They bring decades of experience—and a healthy dose of skepticism—to every tech update.

May require a millennial translator for anything involving AI, apps, or acronyms longer than three letters.

We spent half the meeting explaining how the new IoT sensors work because our Boomer Engineer thought "the cloud" was just a fancy term for offsite storage.

by Mangled-Pangolin April 4, 2025

Little Engine

You know what they say.

"2 inches can go a long way at 60 miles an hour"

He's going hard and he says "I think I can....I think I can....I think I can.

She's laying there and she says "go harder little engine. I can't even feel that"

by BabyClouds January 16, 2018

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

Orangeburg Engineer

A stupid person, usually a redneck, who tries (and fails) to rig things together with duct tape and bungee cords. Named after the city of Orangeburg, SC.

Person 1: The mattress that guy tied to the top of his lifted truck is falling off.
Person 2: Another Orangeburg Engineer.

by 4pm In Cancun November 30, 2023

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

salt lake stream engine

Preforming a sexual act on a dehisced surgical site

After she had her arm fixed we were able to try the salt lake stream engine

by Srwat December 23, 2024