slump buster
n.— «“God, I’m 0-for-20. I’m going to get the ugliest girl I can find and have sex with her.”…Many of his fellow athletes did seek out “slump busters.”…”It could mean the woman was big, or ugly, or a combination of both,” Canseco explains. He said that golden boy Mark Grace, the former Chicago Cubs first baseman, who seems like the kind of nice guy and good sport you’d want to bring home to mom, defined a slump buster as making out with the “fattest, gnarliest chick you can uncover.”» —“Back to beauty and the beast” by Maureen Dowd International Herald Tribune Feb. 21, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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