Adjective, a person who is controlling, monotone and humourless. A stickler for the rules, one who somehow overrules everyone and is extremely powerful and intimidating to all around them. Fair and just, they won't settle without a fight.
A dance that incorporates the core and challenges your balance. With your hands by your side, knees slightly bent, eyes wide open, you move your body in a wave motion side to side as if a fish is swimming. Move your head to the beat of the music and approach your soon to be mate. Get as close as you can and soon she will be vertical fishing right along with you.
An affliction of those that record video using an upright mobile phone - as if taking a portrait photograph. My left eye is not in the centre of my forehead, my right eye is not on the tip of my nose.
This evening, I will rotate my TV by 90 degrees to enjoy the YouTube spectacle of Jimmy Somerville spontaneously joining a busker who happened to be singing Hometown Boy recorded by someone with vertical video syndrome.
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.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
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 pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).