pastie
(PAY stee) a sticker on a key cap
to remind the typist of an alternate character or function accessed
through that key [1995, Ken Ellis, FIDO Funny echo]
pavement pizza
1: an animal in the road run over by several cars, usu over a period of
days; roadkill
2: -n- vomit on the ground
peckersnot
-n- ejaculate
penis, euphemisms for
cherry picker; cock; crotch cobra; dangler; giggle stick; girl-o-meter; John
Thomas; knob; little German soldier; Mister Happy; (one-eyed) trouser snake;
pants penninsula; pecker; peter; pocket perch; poker; pool cue; pud;
s(c)hlong; schwanz; skin flute;
tallywhacker; trouser snake; Rumpleforeskin;
wang(er); Uncle Wiggly; whore pipe
Note: practically all the euphemisms for penis
are considered at least mildly offensive by most people,
and often all references to sexual anatomy are considered
very offensive and should not be uttered in mixed company;
see sex
people's choice
heroin with a purity approaching 90%; 1995, AP Wire Service
percussive maintenance
the fine art of whacking a device to get it working
phat
fine; a high compliment; 1995, Knight-Ridder News Service;
compare excellent
pickled
when I went through basic training in 1984,
recruits were pickled when they received their first
uniform issue, a set of green fatigues
pig boat
[mil]
a very old, dirty ship
pill
cigarette; He smiled faintly, lit another pill himself, and blew
smoke. -R.Chandler, The Long Good-Bye, 1953
pink belly
slapping somebody on the belly until it's red; sometimes just a
kind of horseplay, sometimes a punishment
see also dogpile;
compare blanket party
pins
legs; She's got a nice set of pins;
see also gams,
get-away sticks
pitch a shitty -vi- to make a U-turn; heard about 1990
pizza box
-n- the CPU of a computer; heard about 1990;
compare cheese box
Planet, the
Fort Ord, California; also referred to as Planet Ord;
heard about 1988
Podunk
'the archetypal jerkwater town' (Cecil Adams); Adams further gives its
location: an unincorporated area about six square miles in extent
containing about one hundred famlies. It is located mostly within East
Brookfield, a town about fifteen miles west of Worcester,
Mass; Return of the Straight Dope,
Cecil Adams, 1994
poison
heroin with a purity approaching 90%; AP story
pompatus
Pompatus mystified millions when Steve Miller used it in his 1973
hit The Joker: 'Some people call me the space cowboy / Some call me
the gangster of love / Some people call me Maurice / 'Cause I speak of
the pompatus of love.'
'Space cowboy' and 'gangster of love' referred to earlier Miller songs. Maurice was from Miller's 1972 tune Enter Maurice ... [which] had this lyric: 'My dearest darling, come closer to Maurice so I can whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear and speak to you of the pompitous of love.' [The] lyric bore a marked resemblance to some lines in a rhythm-and-blues tune called The Letter by the Medallions. The song had been a hit in R&B circles in 1954. It had the lines, 'Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of pizmotality and discuss the puppetutes of love.' The song had been written and sung by a member of the Medallions named Vernon Green. 'Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved,' Green [said]. And puppetutes? 'A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure, who would be my everything and bear my children.'
Steve Miller must have loved R&B. Another line from The Joker goes: 'I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time.' A similar line may be found in the Clovers' 1953 hit Lovey Dovey: 'I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time.' -Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope, 25 Oct 96, The Isthmus
poopie, poopy suit
[mil]
a one-piece jumpsuit; I first heard this from a USN submariner
in about 1995; Bob Stevens (author of There I Was...)
refers to a flight suit as a poopy suit
in a March, 1968 appearance of his cartoon There I Was...;
the origin of this name may possibly be related to
fart sack,
a mattress cover usually made of cotton cloth
pope's nose
the tail of a cooked chicken
posse
one's own circle of friends
postal, go
see go postal
prariedogged
in an office that's divided into cubicles, an interesting occurance
tends to make most people stand up to peer over the top of their
cubicles to try to see what's going on;
Sombody dropped his coffee mug, and when it broke,
the whole office prariedogged.
psi
...psionics and psi powers originated back in the middle 1950s, one of
the earliest uses being in Murray Leinster's The Psionic Mousetrap
(1955). Its popularity stems mostly from an article by John W Campbell
in June 1956 in which Campbell explained how to build a Hieronymous
machine, which was powered by the mind of the operator. Psionics,
explained Campbell, means psychic electronics. [The Science Fiction
Encyclopedia, Ed. Peter Nichols, Dolphin Books, 1979]
psyche (out)
to kid, to tease; to tempt with something you don't intend to give;
Want my seat? Here ... psyche!
compare with not,
yeh, right
pucker factor
describes an activity producing great anxiety;
Bungee-jumping has a high pucker factor.
pump sunshine up your shorts/skirt
to raise expectations, perhaps unreasonably;
I don't want to pump any sunshine up your shorts by telling
you this will be easy.
Note: While the phrase is not
obscene, some people consider it somewhat offensive; it probably should
not be used in polite company;
compare happy horseshit
pumped
1: -adj- excited;
I'm really pumped about tonight's party.
2: -adj- muscular;
compare
buff,
ripped
purplation
'the tendency for prose to purplize; John DeChancie
put a catch in its get-along
to break something, to stop something
put it in the big meat
to shift a bicycle's gears to the biggest chainring;
Bicycling, June 98
put the Indian sign on
...the American aircraft designers rushed to their drawing boards to
come up with a fighter which at last could put the Indian sign on the
legendary Zero; Gordon Prange, Miracle at Midway, 1982;
I can only guess that this means to put a stop to.
putz
[Yiddish] foreskin of a penis after it's been removed; this word is
now used in common speech to describe a socially awkward person,
much the same way dork is used