If you come across as negative, if your ability to carry on a conversation is limited, or if your vocabulary is punctuated
by slang, acronyms, and too many fillers such as «umm» or «like» or «you know» it's not going to make the best impression.
Meanwhile, Hackman's Luthor, aided
by slang - talking surfer nephew Jon Cryer, creates a new super-rival: Nuclear Man, who locks horns with Reeve against a variety of rear - projection backdrops.
Not exact matches
«Wallop» was a
slang term for beer, and «Codd's wallop» was used
by beer drinkers to mean weak or gassy beer.
Look no further than the company's social media accounts — manned
by digital creatives from MRM McCann — which promote IHOP with more tossed - off personality, humor and internet
slang than your average American brand.
After the Bard, the earliest printed reference appears to be a 1994 Globe and Mail article
by John Bentley Mays (in which the author suggests a police horse might enjoy the watery treat) but he is clearly indulging in the
slang of the day, not coining a neologism.
The added
slang includes adulting (describes acting like a grown up), «bye Felicia (a dismissive term used to bid someone farewell), cuck (a derogatory term for an inadequate man), Hey Girl (a reference to a Ryan Gosling meme), Netflix and chill (the act of watching Netflix with an expectation of sexual activity), and rickrolling (when you troll someone on the internet
by linking to Rick Astley's hit song «Never Going to Give You Up»).
The
slang term for arbitrage, the simultaneous buying and selling of the same asset in different markets in order to take advantage of different spreads offered
by brokers.
«In Internet
slang, a troll (/ ˈtroʊl /, / ˈtrɒl /) is a person who sows discord on the Internet
by starting arguments or upsetting people,
by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off - topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on - topic discussion.»
In Internet
slang, a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet
by starting arguments or upsetting people,
by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off - topic messages in an online community, either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response.
However, offering
slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received
by a serious world as adequate penance.
The mass of collateral phenomena, morbid or healthy, with which the various religious phenomena must be compared in order to understand them better, forms what in the
slang of pedagogics is termed «the apperceiving mass»
by which we comprehend them.
The fillings were wrapped in the bread or were served in bowls accompanied
by torn up bread called Buss - Up - Shut, which is
slang for «burst up shirt,» because the bread resembles torn up cloth.
The controversial midfielder, who joined QPR in August after being placed on the transfer list
by Newcastle following a public
slanging match with the club's board, has now said his departure was inevitable after he led a dressing - room revolt over an argument over a bonus structure.
The owners hope to have A Toda Madre (
slang for «awesome») up and running
by July.
I'm told that
slang for the health care reform law favored
by the right was in fact used during the closed - door discussion.
«Blind drunk» was Prohibition - era
slang for damage caused
by drinking grain alcohol that had been cut with methanol
by unscrupulous bootleggers.
By comparing the genetic sequences of the mutant and normal flies, the researchers found that the forgetful flies had an inactive copy of a gene that he and his Chilean collaborators dubbed Volado (Vol)-- South American
slang for absentminded.
The original British skinheads - named for their shaved noggins - were actually influenced
by Jamaica's rude boys, a
slang term from the 1960s for street toughs.
For those readers not familiar with American
slang the «preppy» look is defined
by stripes and colors, equestrian clothing, plaid shirts, field jackets, and nautical - themed accessories.
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By doing this, SNAP Interactive CEO Cliff Lerner told GDI this had resulted in a 43 % decrease in the use of
slang, spelling errors and offensive content.
Blue balls is a
slang term for the condition of temporary fluid congestion in the testicles accompanied
by testicular pain, caused
by prolonged sexual arousal in the human male without ejaculation.
Oh,
by Nsa
slang word for the intricate scrollwork above the top service.
An argot (English: / ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ /; from French argot [a ʁ ˈ ɡ o] «
slang») is a secret language used
by various groups — .
Military
slang, or informal military terms, are colloquial terms used commonly
by military personnel - often as abbreviations or derivations of the NATO Firstly, let me say how much Brian and I enjoyed our tour with Vinarium.
20 Examples
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Written
by Etan Cohen (with creative input from David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson, and Michael Soccio), the screenplay for Men in Black III has some outdated jokes and
slang which, given the film's premise, might've worked had they not been so distracting.
Allegedly inspired
by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is
slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's zombie films.
By the end, everyone has learned the necessary important life lesson, the audience has learned Renaissance slang for female gonads, and a solo song by Paul Rudd has brought everything to a close with a less than rousing final
By the end, everyone has learned the necessary important life lesson, the audience has learned Renaissance
slang for female gonads, and a solo song
by Paul Rudd has brought everything to a close with a less than rousing final
by Paul Rudd has brought everything to a close with a less than rousing finale.
All of it is written — overly peppered with her unique insertion of pop - culture references and strange
slang —
by Cody with a sense of detached irony that feels dishonest, especially when director Karyn Kusama tries to inject subtle bits of humanity into it, which in turn feel dishonest because of the overall tone.
Speaking a largely invented (
by Burgess)
slang, Alex happens to be into Beethoven (a sly reference to Wagner - loving Nazis?)
Audiences will be shocked
by the use of modern
slang.
The film's comparison points are clear — a little bit of «Scum,» a little bit of «A Prophet «-- but it sets itself apart
by making Jack O'Connell «s central character Eric (who is «starred up,» prison
slang for being a high - risk violent offender) a hair - trigger, emotionally fucked psychopath, and
by putting him in the same wing as his father Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), a long - time lifer who's the right - hand man to prison kingpin Spencer (Peter Ferdinando).
The original screenplay
by Diablo Cody ricochets with askew dialogue, a fantasy of youth
slang gone wild that borders on precious and contrived.
There are some cute one liners, mostly delivered
by heavily accented and
slang mangling co-pilot geek, Ben Jabituya (Fisher Stevens) some creative action and a lovely homage to the Three Stooges.
Shot sequentially and on location in a Victorian prison in Belfast, with a shaky but minutely calibrated camera style, in at times barely intelligible British prison
slang (which actually bolsters the primal impact of the film), Starred Up is no mere depiction but a jolting immersion in the claustrophobic mix of violence and vulnerability that is prison life, and it's powered
by Jack O'Connell's riveting performance as violent criminal Eric Love.
Lines that might have come off as ludicrous seem no more (or less) alien than the
slang generated
by teenagers as they try to construct an adult world distinct from the one their parents dangle in front of them.
Chi - Raq — a
slang term used
by some residents of Chicago's south side to refer to the city's war - zone - like gun violence — is a modern retelling of Aristophanes's 411 BC play Lysistrata.
The movie is awful, from the script's blending of Southern charm and Jewish
slang, to the over-the-top performances
by its actors, but when an internet posting begins a rumor that star Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) should garner an Oscar nomination come awards time, the film's publicist (John Michael Higgins) goes into overdrive, generating even more buzz about possible nominations for its other two stars, Victor Allen Miller (Harry Shearer) and Callie Webb (Parker Posey).
Pecha Kucha [6](from Japanese
slang for chit - chat) is a high - energy form of show - and - tell that has become popular in the last decade, hosted
by community groups in cities around the world.
Educators can capitalize on adolescents» deep need to be steeped in rhythms, words, actions, values, and emotions
by bringing these elements — found in song,
slang, dialect, dance, and technology — into classroom learning experiences.
Back then, you were either a Ford, Chevy or MOPAR fan, the latter «MOPAR» nomenclature standing for «Motor Parts» before evolving into
slang for anything produced
by Chrysler / Plymouth / Dodge.
But Fingersmith (a
slang term for a pickpocket) is not a Victorian retread
by any means.
Drawing from David W. Maurer's Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern (1955), Meloy equips the whiz mob with authentic pickpocket
slang that effectually functions as coded speech — a detail sure to delight kids enamored
by the clandestine.
Kiffe Kiffe Demain was published in France in 2004, when she was 19; it was published in English this summer (as a paperback original) having been translated from French into English
by Sarah Adams, who provides a useful glossary of Arabic and French
slang for those words that defy direct translation.
Yankee market most of the time is used
by non-US residents who call these Forex markets, and it is directed to the
slang term that was used to name the Americans â $ «a Yankee.
It was written
by David W. Maurer, who was a professor of linguistics, and used his skills to analyze the
slang of the underworld.
«Puppy mill» is not a legally defined term, it is
slang invented
by the «animal rights» extremists to denigrate any and all breeders — small or large, standard or substandard.
Perhaps the best definition was coined
by Bernard Share in Slanguage: The Dictionary of Irish
Slang: «Craic - the particular sense of esprit produced
by the confluence of drink, romance and music».
This glossary of surfer
slang was pulled together
by Cristina, the community manager from BookSurfCamps.com, a themed travel website offering a vast collection of surf camps and holidays.