From the song, "Shapoopie," as seen in "The Music Man," a play about a man from Gary, Indiana who makes a boys band in Iowa and falls in love with a librarian.
Shapoopie, shapoopie, the girl that's hard to get.
Shapoopie, shapoopie, but you can win her yet.
When a leopard runs by a group of people really fast, with an Irish man yelling "GET BACK ON THE RACETRACK YOU FECKIN EEJIT" on it's back.
I was sat at the leopard grand national watching the many many gazelles grazing and before too long a leopard comes shavoom by, I can hardly believe my eyes
The girl who is hard to get. As seen in the long-standing well received musical "The Music Man". Contrary to popular belief this term was not coined or conceived of by Seth Macfarlane.
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.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
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).