An individual who, upon entering college, tries to do every single extracurricular activity s/he did while in high school, possibly also joining a fraternity/sorority, while still attempting to maintain their high school GPA and academic aura. Portmanteau word of frosh (slang for freshman) combined with the term manic.
c.f. froshmania, the general concept of being freshmanic.
The second the semester started, I got all froshmanic and signed up for Model UN, trivia club, pledged Sigma Epsilon Xi, decided to join the drama club, and took a bunch of sophomore-level courses.
n. The general phenomenon of college students wanting to join every single college club and extracurricular activity that they did in high school; may also include early fall semester rush to Greek organizations.
c.f. froshmanic (Indiv. noun form)
Froshmania is crazy this year! We're gonna have to have delayed rush or something, since we're not gonna be able to handle all of these froshmanics!
Something similar to dipsomania, but in context with FACEBOOK, where people are so addicted to FACEBOOK that the get intermittent bouts of craving for Facebook status update...
I at least update my Facebook status 20 times a day. OMG, I think i am having fabsomania.
The inability to control yourself when items are available free. E.g. stealing unnecessary sauce packets from a fish and chip shop, because you can and never really be sure when a free tartare packet will be handy, even though you will probably throw them out the next time you clean your car. Same goes with jam packets from breakfast buffets.
Man, Amy suffers from chronic freeomania; even when she doesn't want to drink if the booze is free she knocks them back like the prohibition is imminent. (Please note: freeomania is a chronic illness and sufferers are particularly vulnerable at 21st's, weddings, farmers' markets and gallery openings).
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.
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.
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 peecalculus.