Jul 26 Word of the Day
Noun: a friend who is usually only called upon by a friend when a more primary/prominent friend is unavailable.
Taken from the term “second string” in an athletic competition situation. In football, if the star quarterback gets injured during a play, the second string is called off the bench to replace him/her. A “Second String Friend” is essentially benched until needed, if ever.
Synonyms: Plan B, Second Choice, Secondary Friend, Benched Until Needed
Taken from the term “second string” in an athletic competition situation. In football, if the star quarterback gets injured during a play, the second string is called off the bench to replace him/her. A “Second String Friend” is essentially benched until needed, if ever.
Synonyms: Plan B, Second Choice, Secondary Friend, Benched Until Needed
I got a call from X the other night. She had an extra ticket to a concert she bought for a friend, but they couldn’t make it so she called me to ask if I wanted to go because I am her Second String Friend.
by Deus-ex-machina August 26, 2020
2
The act of singling out one person of the group and testing their knowledge by asking them a series of intense, difficult questions in front of everyone.
Pimping the interns and medical students was a given during rounds.
"They know nothing of Natural Philosophy, these pin-heads. Drunkards, sloths, their bellies filled with Mead and Ale. O that I might see them pimped!"
William Harvey
"They know nothing of Natural Philosophy, these pin-heads. Drunkards, sloths, their bellies filled with Mead and Ale. O that I might see them pimped!"
William Harvey
by Johnny Browncoat July 30, 2006
4
the pragmatic solution arrived at in the final analysis by an economically challenged individual seeking an alternative to his (possibly her) own procurement by those higher in the food chain on the 'strip', (a readily available area of tarmac, with a ratio of persons to neon signs of 1:100 to be found in most populated areas.
Prerequisites include such skills as jive talking, fur stacking, trick management, prophylactic distribution, and the most problemized issue of collecting paper, which itself represents the genesis of the subject of the terminology described and defined herein.
Prerequisites include such skills as jive talking, fur stacking, trick management, prophylactic distribution, and the most problemized issue of collecting paper, which itself represents the genesis of the subject of the terminology described and defined herein.
the gentleman in question asserts that he was present at the said time and location, wearing a pink suit with a cane, alligator shoes and 5 boxes of Durex, with the intention of purchasing a can of coke. The defence finds the claim made, namely that the defendant was engaging in the act of 'pimping, to be thoroughly outrageous.
by Not Applicable December 14, 2004