Joe Neubarth's definitions

WING NUT

An eccentric who is usually driven by religious fever. They will take irrational social or political positions and not care that people will think that they are off balance. Being extreme somehow substantiates their faith.

Those guys doing the beheadings are all wing nuts

by Joe Neubarth March 14, 2005

lame

Usually refers to the lack of awareness of an individual. A person who is not alert to present culture, style or music is LAME

At 29, Bob still lives with his parents and has lost contact with what is happening in our world. He is so LAME!

by Joe Neubarth January 7, 2007

dusted

To be killed. (i.e. Turned into the dust that you were created from.)

The Mafia dusted him. I feel sorry for his widow and children.

by Joe Neubarth March 10, 2005

digital immigrant

Somebody who has popped up on an Internet site because of clicking on a link (sometimes accidentally). They don't have the slightest idea where they are at, but read the site information out of curiosity, and occasionally buy items if they are listed for sale.

A lot of digital immigrants have popped up on my site. I'm getting rich because they are buying my books!

by Joe Neubarth July 12, 2007

helicopter parent

An individual parent who hovers over their child well into adulthood. Very seldom are there two helicopter parents in one family. One is enough to hover and annoy their thirty or forty year old "child" to the point of extreme exasperation.

He's forty two years old, but his "helicopter parent" mother comes over every day to make certain that absolutely everything in his life is right. (This includes selecting the right food, clothes, furnishings, girlfriends, friends, and job that her darling son has.)

by Joe Neubarth August 2, 2007

basketball jones

A Basketball Jones is an obsession with the sport of basketball. Kids who play the game and only think of the world in terms of basketball and their potential success at it.

That's all he ever thinks about. He's got a Basketball Jones.

by Joe Neubarth January 21, 2005

as a friend

The three words that let you know that your (near) intimate relationship has come to an end. Usually delivered from female to male, it is the defining phrase that lets the "dropped" individual finally know that it is OVER.

Donna told him gently, "Dave, you know that I have always been very fond of you; but, now, I want to continue our relationship as just a friend."

by Joe Neubarth March 29, 2005