"Pounded like a rented gerbil" is a phrase used to describe disastrous events- usually painful financial setbacks.
As you can imagine, rented gerbils would be the unfortunate recipients of an especially rough and vigorous pounding experience, when compared with the more tender romantic encounters of privately owned gerbils. After all, you'll be returning the poor rodent right back to the rental office tomorrow, so why bother taking good care of it?
How'd it go for me at the blackjack tables last night? I got pounded like a rented gerbil, that's how! I dropped almost two grand! Fuck... that'll teach me to gamble with money I can't afford to lose.
An inexplicable, curiously concerning behaviour frequently demonstrated by individuals with near-pathologic emotional, physical (and possibly spiritual) attachment to a specific vehicle, often a motorcycle--that, once relinquished either by sale or trade, creates such tremendous internal loss-aversion that any and all measures are taken to restore possession, often at financial detriment.
Ok, that's the FIFTH fuckin' time that he's either traded or sold that damn Harley only to chase down the new owner in remorse. Each time he's lost money, time and self-respect...but it sure is entertaining watching the motoreturnus profundus!
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.