Used as an insult. If you say someone is ‘spare parts’ then you’re calling them useless, or they’re so poor at what they are doing that they might as well be doing nothing.
In a co-op video game, if there’s someone in your party that ends up doing jack shit for the team, then you’d say they are “spare parts.”
Player 1: Dude, player 3 got no absolutely no kills the entire round.
Player 2: I know, right? He just sat on his ass the whole game!
Player 1: Yup—he’s spare parts.
Bushing, specifically at the Spanish Arch Galway. Typically applies to those drinking Buckfast or Turbourg but any substance may be consumed while being entertained by the local hippies, jugglers, pet dogs and the odd amusing homeless drunk.
Believed to have been coined by the NUIG Civil Engineering Class of 08 but now widely used by all Galwagians
Phrase used by sadistic managers (particularly in IT) to describe any moment of spare time their employee(s) might have.
The implication is that the employee is like an old mainframe computer, and should be put to work for every second of the day or else corporate value is lost.
Boss: "Hey, Bob has some spare cycles, he can do these 29extra tasks."
Bob: <grunts incoherently and shuffles closer to complete mental breakdown>
In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.
Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.
A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.
I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.