Dic·tion·ar·y

Boxen

1. Geek-’l33t’-slang for referring to multiple computers.
2. Geek-‘l33t’-slang for referring to computing power.
3. Geek-‘l33t’-slang for referring to the collection of computers in your bedroom that suck up all your income and time, preventing you from moving out, getting laid and not being an exceptional loser.

box·en
Etymology: A cumbersome pluralization of box.

Rishathra

1. Interspecies copulation.
2. Larry Niven’s idea of an intergalactic handshake.

rish·ath·ra
Etymology: Coined by Science Fiction author Larry Niven in his Ringworld novels.

Weather Porn

1. Reports which exploit the tragedy and spectacle of natural disasters in order to tittilate viewers and help establish an otherwise unexceptional journalist’s reputation as a compassionate and courageous danger seeking ace-reporter.

weath·er porn
Etymology: Emerged following unceasing and mind-numbing coverage of Hurricane Katrina provided by American television news networks.

Culture Jammer

1. An activist who uses “existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original medium’s communication method.” — Wikipedia
2. A minor defacer and disparager of commercial symbols who thinks a little anarchism might help him get laid.

cul·ture jam·mer
Etymology: “The Situationist International first made the comparison to radio jamming in 1968, when it proposed the use of guerrilla communication within mass media to sow confusion within the dominant culture. (Kalle Lasn, the founder of AdBusters magazine, wrote a book entitled Culture Jam, but the term predates his title.) It is also thought that the phrase might, in part, come from a 1969 episode of The Prisoner which involved subversives calling themselves ‘Jammers’, and attempting to disrupt the Orwellian Utopia the series took place in.” — Wikipedia

Nice Girl

1. An unmarried woman who is a virgin.
2. A term which Indian gossip queens withhold in character assessments in order to impugn the dignity of their rivals.

nice girl
Etymology: Heard shortly after British colonizers introduced english to their first Indian grandmother.

Daddy Gut

1. A bulge in a man’s lower belly which is caused by him pushing out his stomach to help distribute the weight of the child he’s holding.
2. A development along the abdomen of new fathers which causes their stomachs to appear permanently distended due to their lack of childbearing hips.
3. Divine retribution on behalf of mothers everywhere.

dad·dy gut
Etymology: Discovered and coined by Ian D’Lima shortly after the birth of his beautiful little daughter.

Plausible Deniability

1. A process whereby one first abstracts the directness and origin of a command decision in an effort to deviously cover one’s ass.
2. A state where one has prevented one’s self from officially learning what one already knows in order to later retain the precious ability to plead ignorance.
3. Pulling a Nixon.
4. Pulling a Bush/Cheney
5. Pulling a Chretien/Martin.

plau·si·ble de·nia·bili·ty
Etymology: “a political doctrine originally developed in the United States of America in the 1950s and applied to operations by the then newly-formed Central Intelligence Agency.” — Wikipedia

Godwin's Law

1. A natural law of usenet that reads: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. — Wikipedia
2. The reason why even discussion threads about toothpaste end in tears.

god·wins law
Etymology: developed by Mike Godwin in 1990 as a counter-meme to the prolific usage of Nazi-comparisons on internet newsgroups.

Asymmetric warfare

1. When “two belligerents are so mismatched in their military capabilities or accustomed methods of engagement that the militarily diasadvantaged power must press its special advantages or effectively exploit its enemy’s particular weaknesses if they are to have any hope of prevailing.” —Wikipedia
2. Occurs whenever David attempts to best Goliath.
3. Occurs whenever you file taxes with your country’s federal revenue agency.

a·sym·met·ric war·fare
Etymology: commonly used, erroneously, as a buzzword for terrorism.

Regifter

1. An individual who accepts a gift a from one person and then, without the gifter’s knowledge, bestows that gift upon another person: Tim Whatley.
2. An entity that accepts a gift a from one person and then, without the gifter’s approval, bestows that gift upon another person: The Canada Revenue Agency.

re·gift·er
Etymology: Burnt into the mid-ninties lexicon by the sitcom Seinfeld (episode 98: “The Label Maker”).

Deliverance

1. The service of having your country shot to pieces under the presumption that such decimation should naturally command your gratitude.

de·liv·er·ance
Etymology: From the prolific White House/Bush 2004 spin rooms.

Camping

1. A prolonged exposure to nature where urban norms would dictate one should partake of a shower, yet—and this is key—one still manages to abstain from washing under the pretense of “roughing it.”
2. An opportunity to justify horribly greasy meat dishes as the total sum of one’s diet, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Note: if you bathe regularly and eat vegetables while on a camping-style excursion, then you are considerd to be SUVing it. This is the case regardless of whether or not you do happen to own a yuppie vehicle.

camp·ing
Etymology: From the latin campus, meaning “a level field” that, presumably, will soon be occupied by a gathering of unctuous, unhygienic men.

Zebra

# Novelty animal that exists solely to save linguists from the embarrassment of failing to populate the final pages of their dictionaries. # An overweight man in overtight breeches who receives steady streams of abuse whenever he makes a call in the visiting team's favour. Certainly of illegitmate origin. The original name for the beast more likely originates from an African Clicking Language that pronounces the name: click-CLICK-click-click-CLICK-nun-u-HOI-cluck-CLICK-click-cluck-clickety-click

Internet

# An electronic construct, used principally for the delivery and consumption of pornography. # Global TCP/IP network reported to have been created by Al Gore. # "The mother of all networks." in·ter·net Etymology: Emerged around 1974 in reference to the growing list of institutional networks plugged into ARPANet.

Ignorance

# An, allegedly, blissful state for one. # An, inevitable, American State for all. ig·no·rance Etymology: From the latin verb ignorare; to not to know.

Bushwhacked

# The act of being hoodwinked by an unelected president. # To find yourself the unwitting participant to an administration that has begun killing in your name. # An occasion where due process has been savaged by American Bushmen. 'bush·hwakt Etymology: Perhaps a politicized allusion to an absurd wrestling tag-team from Australia.

Meatspace

# The desert of the real. # The plane upon which corporeal nuisances are encountered. # "A somewhat tongue-in-cheek term used in opposition to the term CyberSpace" - Meatball Wiki See also under: real life meet´spays Etymology: According to Word Spy, first used in the "Austin Cyberspace Journal Newsletter". Although it is the spiritual descendant of the ontological attitudes prevalent in works from early cyberpunk such as William Gibson's Neuromancer.

Pragmatism

1. Belief or theory that legitimizes the moral rationale of an act based on the expedient consequences the practice may produce. (See under morally bankrupt)
2. Prime axiom of indifferent and expedient social policy; "Is perhaps the only peculiarly American school of philosophy."

prag·ma·tism
Derived Forms: pragmatist, n. | pragmatistic adj.
Etymology: Termed by Charles Sanders Peirce in an effort to distinguish himself from, the likewise mentally-unstable, William James.

Dictionary

1. A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, etymology and hidden biasses.
2. A sophist's best friend.

dic·tion·ar·y
Plural: dic·tion·ar·ies
Etymology: Medieval Latin dictionarium, from Late Latin diction-, dictio word, from Latin for speaking.