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langolier
Small demon-like creatures with fast legs that eat up the lazy people "who don't get the big picture".
Large levitating ball-shaped demons with leech-like chainsaw-teeth that eat up the world of yesterday.
Fictional creatures created by Stephen King.
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Children and puppies who are teething and not yet potty-trained.
Large levitating ball-shaped demons with leech-like chainsaw-teeth that eat up the world of yesterday.
Fictional creatures created by Stephen King.
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Children and puppies who are teething and not yet potty-trained.
langolier by Crave-Case March 28, 2008
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Longolier
Mysterious creature that edits or removes old entries on a blog - usually because the entries are embarrassing to the blogger. Longoliers are similar to the Ministry of Truth, in George Orwell's Book 1984, in that they function to falsify history.
Australian journalist and blogger Tim Blair was the first to use "Longoliers" to describe this phenomenon. The term was originally used by author Stephen King to describe beings who devour the past.
Australian journalist and blogger Tim Blair was the first to use "Longoliers" to describe this phenomenon. The term was originally used by author Stephen King to describe beings who devour the past.
Longoliers have been busy in th archives of Little Green Footballs and The Daily Dish as the bloggers have moved from right to left on the political spectrum.
Longolier by Marcellus_vrw November 1, 2010
Langeleering
The act of telling any woman at any given time that she is "a great lady" regardless of whether or not she's actually done something great.
A woman gives man dirty look, tells him to go away, man replies "you're a great lady". Once that statement is made, the man is officially Langeleering.
Langeleering by anonymous1779 December 30, 2011
Langoliers
1) Spherical creatures with bottomless throats and a voracious appetite, the eponymous entities of the first novella in the Stephen King quartet Four Past Midnight.
The world of life and consciousness is forever passing down the stream of time, and the uninhabited, chemically inert world left behind - inadvertently visited by sleeping passengers on a plane that flies through a time rift - awaits being carved up by the jaws of what one character refers to as the timekeepers of eternity, but which might more accurately be described as the blow-fly larvae of the space-time continuum. From a distance, the sound of their munching is somewhat like the sound of radio static ... and that is as close as you want to get. As another character, Craig Toomey, envisions them, these creatures are purpose personified; in the horror stories he heard as a child from his insanely pushy father he was told how their sole purpose is to chase down all the lazy people who are not working frantically enough and eat them alive.
2) Referred to when something urgently needs doing, like a college essay due in the morning.
The world of life and consciousness is forever passing down the stream of time, and the uninhabited, chemically inert world left behind - inadvertently visited by sleeping passengers on a plane that flies through a time rift - awaits being carved up by the jaws of what one character refers to as the timekeepers of eternity, but which might more accurately be described as the blow-fly larvae of the space-time continuum. From a distance, the sound of their munching is somewhat like the sound of radio static ... and that is as close as you want to get. As another character, Craig Toomey, envisions them, these creatures are purpose personified; in the horror stories he heard as a child from his insanely pushy father he was told how their sole purpose is to chase down all the lazy people who are not working frantically enough and eat them alive.
2) Referred to when something urgently needs doing, like a college essay due in the morning.
But the sound-wave rolled on toward them - the crunching, smacking, eating sound of the langoliers. (Four Past Midnight, p. 233).
Gotta go. Thesis to finish by next week. Langoliers.
Gotta go. Thesis to finish by next week. Langoliers.
Langoliers by Fearman September 28, 2007
LANgover
A hangover after a LAN party... Usually lasts twice as long as the actual LAN party that you attended; gets worse with age.
A - "Hey up mate, you coming for a beer?"
B - "Nah man, went a LAN party at the weekend, got a right LANgover
A - " bah.... cya in a week then dude"
B - "Nah man, went a LAN party at the weekend, got a right LANgover
A - " bah.... cya in a week then dude"
LANgover by davido_labido April 5, 2010
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