The offer of a bigger and better opportunity down the road, usually made by a producer, a director or lead actor in order to get subordinates to work harder or for less money or for no money, but the opportunity never arises.
From the web series TOKENS, Jessica AD says it to Producer in Episode 6 "Whitewashing" sc. 12. It's scripted as, "Thanks for the LA promise." Winnifred Jong, the series creator and director, got the actor, Jessica Greco, to adlib, "Thanks for the LA-fucking-promise."
a supposedly mythical symbiotic single celled organism residing in the lungs. usually seen after eating large doses of psilosybin mushrooms, and coughing. commonly mistaken for phlegm
"dude, I just coughed something up, I think it's a laprocite trying to escape."
Utility beer is the beer you keep around for the day-to-day moments when beer is a necessity to assist in pedestrian activities (golf, plumbing, yardwork, babysitting, staff meetings, Zoom calls). For the beer snob it is the beer you save for neighbors when they drop in at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday. It is differentiated from the actual high-end beer you save for special events, holidays, and special tastings.
Person 1: Dave, did you bring along those hazy craft IPA's so we could drink while cleaning Lyle's pool?
Person 2: Nope. I just have a bunch of utility beer that Steve dumped on me. Good enough for this. It is only 10:30 a.m.
Police activity, especially of the non-productive type i.e. The act of setting up and patrolling speedtraps, harassing or arresting people based on appearance (racial profiling), breaking up parties, any sort of cannabis bust, etc.
"Did you see all the cops on highway 6? They are oinking hard!"
"I hope Johnny doesn't get caught with his bag of weed, the pigs are oinking"