To get caught or reprimanded, typically while participating in an illegal or unscrupulous activity. Term is thought to originally refer to the consequences resulting from failing a drug test based on a hair follicle sample.
A coach, team owner, athletic director or public official who publicly excuses , colludes or conceals the illegal activities of an athlete/s for financial or professional gain to the detriment of wider society.
They can usually be found in newspaper and TV puff pieces defending the athlete with proclamations of "He did a bad thing and he regrets it , but he's good now."
Person 1 : "Did you see the news? The running back of (Insert sports team) just got arrested for breaking some guys face because he cut him up in traffic.
Person 2: Ahhh shit there goes our season he is going to have to go to jail.
Person 1: Nah his silver haired middle aged white man will be on the phone to the sheriffs office getting that shit squashed.
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).