Meaningless parlor game created in Victorian 1890's England in which the objective is to shoot "winks" into a cup. Commonly used today to disparagingly call somethingtrivial and unimportant.
Guy1: Hey man I'm off to play a game of pickup volleyball at the park, want to come?
Guy2: Nah I'm off to play some tackle football, but you can call me when you're done playing tiddlywinks.
"I made 7 grand on the Google IPO, but that's tiddlywinks compared to what the Sergey Brin made."
A game in which contestants race each other pants around their ankles, holding a quarter squeezed gently between their butt cheeks. When they reach the "finish" they must deposit the quarter into a cup, or marked goal first to be the winner.
Those rednecksup north are crazy, they were playing a game of Polish Tiddlywinks! They looked like retards, sick bastards.
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.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.