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metric buttload

metric buttload  n.— «After a metric buttload of responses (and it isn’t even due yet. Sheesh…), I thought I’d up the ante a bit.» —“Happy Wombat Double Video Quiz Update” by T.W. Wombat Usenet: rec.games...

Clydesdale

Clydesdale  n.— «The Clydesdale Runners Association has been founded to lobby for the weight-division awards. “I’m obsessed with this, and it’s driving my family crazy,” said Joe Law, founder of the organization.…Law...

barrida

barrida  n.— «My grandmother still gets Barridas. She got scared when she saw a hose and thought it was a snake. The next day she felt sick. The day after—she got a barrida. I’m hiding while taking the picture, because once again, she’d...

folksonomy

folksonomy  n.— «Last week I asked the AIfIA members’ list what they thought about the social classification happening at Furl, Flickr and Del.icio.us. In each of these systems people classify their pictures/bookmarks/web pages with tags...

ghetto pass

ghetto pass
 n.— «I never thought ice cube would give up his Ghetto Pass.» —by Akiem Allah Usenet: rec.music.hip-hop Mar. 11, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

PMD

PMD  n.— «America’s greatest intelligence failure in Iraq was not the WMD we thought were there, but weren’t. It was the PMD we thought weren’t there, but were. PMD in my lexicon, stands for “people of mass destruction...