fire poi is a most excellent past time involving spinning fire chains around you, the idea is that you dont hit yourself or anyone else and look good doing it, theres tonnes of em, youve seen em at festivals and virtually any hippy gathering, they love it, pretty much everyone else does too coz its just beautiful...
Man, that fire poi rocks! look at the cooool fire trails! People should do more poi... :)
poi is the maori word for ball on a cord.
poi are used in a form of object manipulation commonly referred to as spinning, twirling, dancing, juggling.
this manipulation is a performance based art that often involves fire or glow poi.
A Hawaiian dish made from the root of the kalo plant. A puree with a bitter taste, some like it others do like it. Eaten in Hawaii and other Pacific islands.
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.