The return of light Joker's definitions

rotten apple

a unfit or corrupt person who's nature is known to corrupt others (derived for the expression one rotten apple spoils a barrel)

No telling who the rotten apple is here without a thorough examination.

by The Return of Light Joker September 27, 2011

California stop

an instance of driving slowly past a stop sign

That idiot just did a California stop.

by The Return of Light Joker April 14, 2008

shantytown

1. a cluster of makeshift dwellings occupied by exceptionally poor people or vagrants

2. any dilapidated place

What's with the shantytown?

by The Return of Light Joker October 28, 2007

fashion roadkill

when a person tries to dress fashionable or thinks they are doing so but ends up looking ridiculous

celebrities are increasingly getting into situations of fashion roadkill.

by The Return of Light Joker November 27, 2009

777

the Boeing 777 aircraft

A 777 passed us overhead.

by The Return of Light Joker October 17, 2008

liberate

to steal or appropriate something

He must have attempted to liberate a frozen dinner from their house, because they jumped down his throat the next day.

by The Return of Light Joker June 16, 2009

astroturfing

the act of creating a small organization and making it appear to represent something popular for the purpose of promoting a particular entity, cause, etc. (a play on grassroots in the sense of a popular movement originating among the common people, ultimately from AstroTurf, a brand of artificial grass)

The practice of astroturfing a widely used form of propaganda, as evidenced by the media coverage it receives.

by The Return of Light Joker January 17, 2009