A dirty chunk of snow and ice that builds up inside a car fender in the winter (and eventually falls off). Also known as a car booger or a slurd.
I wish they'd fix that road; it gets so many potholes after a thaw that it knocks all the clunkers off everyone's cars.
by Aaron of Minneapolis January 23, 2008
Fear of traffic cones. Its primary symptom is a tendency to drive more slowly than necessary where such cones are used on a roadway.
No lanes were actually blocked by the utility work, but traffic was still slow due to a few drivers' conaphobia.
by Aaron of Minneapolis July 06, 2010
Fear of Jersey barriers and construction barriers. Its primary symptom is a tendency to drive slowly and/or hug the opposite side of a lane where such barriers are present.
Although the shoulder work didn't actually block traffic, things were still slow from a few drivers getting barriernoia.
by Aaron of Minneapolis July 06, 2010
"Degrees"; the "degree" sign. Commonly used in temperatures, angles, and geographical coordinates, it can typed on a PC by hitting Alt-0176 (using the numeric keypad), and its HTML code is °. I wouldn't be surprised if someone's used it in a job advertisement before.
by Aaron of Minneapolis August 10, 2007
An old-fashioned 5.25-inch floppy disk, commonly used in early personal computers (such as Apple IIs and IBM PCs). So nicknamed because, unlike 3.5-inch floppies, they are flexible enough to bend when waved (that is, they flop around).
I should put a 5.25" drive in my old computer and see if there are any DOS games I want from the old floppy floppies.
Circa 1990:
Person A: "Can I borrow a floppy disk?"
Person B: "Hard floppy or floppy floppy?"
Circa 1990:
Person A: "Can I borrow a floppy disk?"
Person B: "Hard floppy or floppy floppy?"
by Aaron of Minneapolis August 24, 2009
by Aaron of Minneapolis August 30, 2007
A user of new software or equipment, who must deal with the bugs that were not eliminated in beta testing.
(Derivation: Gamma is the next Greek letter after alpha and beta.)
(Derivation: Gamma is the next Greek letter after alpha and beta.)
I'm going to wait a while before getting Windows Vista; I remember the problems people had with XP and Service Pack 2 when they came out, and I don't want to be a gamma tester.
by Aaron of Minneapolis January 28, 2007