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person of interest 

This is the libel-proof way of really saying "we think this guy is a suspect but we don't yet have probable cause and we want to talk to him and hope he's stupid enough to confess and make our case." But, for some reason, they choose not to come out and say that the person is a "suspect" that they would arrest on sight.

Person of interest means we don't have enough to arrest; suspect means we do.
Chief Smith said: "Witnesses described a bald white male with a 'wifebeater' shirt as being at the scene of the crime. He is a person of interest in this case and we would like to talk to him."
person of interest by forhall October 15, 2010
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person of interest 

1) Someone who isn't a suspect in a crime, but just in consideration.

2) Someone you find attractive, you may try to go and get with, but you only have mild feelings for that person.
1) The man who lived two blocks from the scene was a person of interest in the case.

2) Marty: Hey, that girl over there look good, you gonna ask her out?

Daro: Nah, right now she's only a person of interest.
person of interest by JorBallantine February 11, 2007

Person of Interest 

You're f**cked!

Also, a politically-correct term for 'Suspect'
Jethro was just a small-town loner who mostly kept to himself. That is, until the authorities, under pressure from a local, hysterical, small-town power elite, named him a Person of Interest in a long-standing, as yet unsolved, serial-murder case. Now his life will forever be a living hell.
Person of Interest by E b a April 12, 2008

Person Of Interest 

Friday: Sung by robot

My Moment: Tries too hard

Person Of Interest: Fantasising Justin Gayber
Person Of Interest by likeordie November 17, 2011

person of interesting color 

A black albino, suspected of, but not charged with, a crime.
While not officially charged, Te'quan (an African American Albino) is considered a person of interesting color.

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026