A cultural shorthand, often humorous, catchy, or jargonistic, that simplifies or stylises a more complex or abstract concept, making it more memorable and widely accepted in commondiscourse.
"The funnyword for performing quality assurance by bombarding software with random inputs - akin to a crazed chimp pounding on a keyboard to see what happens - is monkey testing."
"It's this big abstract *thing* that no-one understands, incredibly complex infrastructure that stores your files so you can access them from anywhere - but anyway the funnyword for all that is the cloud. "
another term for a station wagon, mini-van, or any other kind of vehicle that is targeted at the "family" demographic(also M.A.V.)
"Tactical advantages aside, the M.A.V. is top of the line for the holy warrior troop transport manufactured by the Church of Latter Day Saints Military Industrial Complex. Also great for family trips...to heathen lands."
12 step recovery jargon referring to someone new who talks about how great life is, now that they'resober. Usually meaning that the person is out of touch with reality.
The new guy seems pretty happy for a dude who has no job, no money and no family. He must be on a pink cloud.