when the voice of someone you have never seen suggests that the person is overwhelmingly physically attractive, only to find, once you actually see them, that their physical appearance is not necessarily their best attribute.
(Used mainly in reference to singers whom one hears sing before they actually see them).
Person 1: I googled that singer we heard on the radio.
When a friend offers you a list and you jump in the back seat leaving the passenger seat vacant. Hence making it look like a taxi. Comments like.... can you put the AC on? and have you been working long? are actively encouraged.
Matt and I got a lift to the airport from Ryan the other day and we absolutely mini-cabbed him!
When sitting on the toilet, you reach over to tear off some toilet paper only to find that there's nothing but the cardboard tube, or cob, left on the roll.
To have chocked, to have had made it close but never having made it all the way, to have continually come up short, to have lost in an often comical way. In reference to the Chicago Cubs of the MLB. Past tense of cub.
"Man the Cubs really cubbed it last year."
"The Cubs have cubbed it for 100 years now."
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.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).