Buce's definitions

Evaginate

Ah, not what you think. It means "to turn inside out."

Quit trying to evaginate me!

by Buce July 14, 2005

pity sex

What men will settle for after whimpering and wheedling and begging. No confirmed sightings, probbly an urban legend.

Pity Sex Gladly Accepted --T-Shirt.

by Buce August 7, 2005

EBITDA

In finance, "earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization," sometimes "EBIT-DA." In accounting, a way-station in the slow morph from "conceptual" to "pure cash flow" reporting. Compare "EBAWDWTCAE"--"earnings before anything we don't want to count as expenses."

The net is negative but the EBITDA is sensational.

by Buce July 11, 2005

You want room?

Pacific Northwest localism for: do you want room for cream in your coffee? Unaccountably, it seems not (as of this writing) to have spread down into Northern California.

I'd rather say 'you want room?' than 'you want fries with that?'

by Buce August 9, 2005

helicopter parent

The bane of the dean's existence. The parent who hovers and flaps his wings while the kid lives in his shadow. Particularly prevalent at high-priced colleges, where parents feel obliged (or entitled) to intervene on issues down to the candlepower of the lightbulbs.

Yes, helicopter parent, your intentions are good, but that rotor of yours is causing a din.--Felix Carroll, Albany Times Union, January 27, 2005

by Buce September 5, 2005

cigar

Sometimes, only a cigar.

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.--Freud

by Buce August 26, 2005

Money shot

In a porn flic, the one that earns the star her (occasionally his) large fee--the ugly or disgusting or degrading stuff that pays so well. In more general (and more anodyne) usage, any really important point, the point not to be overlooked.

The money shot in the prospectus is the paragraph where they admit they will never make any money.

by Buce July 11, 2005