A cacklefester is a phrase that’s used to describe someone who enjoys intense and thrilling activities that generate an adrenaline rush. Other terms include sensation seekers, adventurers, or thrill seekers.
They’re the type of people who enjoy things like skydiving, extreme sports, or potentially dangerous lines of work, such as firefighting or emergency rescue.
Some people seek this sensation in the same way that others might chase a high from a particular drug, hence the term Cacklefester.
Tommy: Did you see that accident-prone fool smashing his way up through the tracks.
Robert: It takes a certain type of person to be a Cacklefester and i'm not one of them!
When you are walking and your ankle painfully moves to an uncomfortable angle, this happens when you come off e.g a curb or step. This is a Hull word which is used nowhere else in the world.
Person 1: "Hey, why are you limping?"
Person 2:" Well I just cockled over as I came off that curb over there."
The high pitched fake laughter every cameraperson makes when the subject of a video has a fail, especially resulting in injury.
The videos on Ridiculousness must have the same camera person. Regardless of the fail, it always sounds like the same idiotic camera cackle! Even when the fail is painfully not funny!
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.