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A chinger is a telephone fraud device that mimics the frequency made by a pay telephone when money was dropped into it. Putting money in the coin slot caused a DTMF or Dual Tone Multi Frequency signal to be sent out to the central switching box which registered it and when enough money had been inserted into the phone would connect the call. The chinger could mimic that sound and thus produce the equivalent effect of dropping a quarter into the pay phone.
So basically, a chinger allowed the user to make unlimited free calls from certain pay phones. They could be made using a simple pocket electronic address book sold at Radio Shack, and replacing the chip inside to alter the output sound.
They were also known as "red boxes" but the name chinger probably referred to the chiming sound it made when mimicing a quarter drop.
Most modern pay phones no longer use the DTMF tones, rendering the chinger obsolete... but it was fun while it lasted!
So basically, a chinger allowed the user to make unlimited free calls from certain pay phones. They could be made using a simple pocket electronic address book sold at Radio Shack, and replacing the chip inside to alter the output sound.
They were also known as "red boxes" but the name chinger probably referred to the chiming sound it made when mimicing a quarter drop.
Most modern pay phones no longer use the DTMF tones, rendering the chinger obsolete... but it was fun while it lasted!
by Jacaranda February 1, 2008
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The show Tiger King, which was about him and his exotic animal zoo in Oklahoma, aired on Netflix at the same time everyone was quarantined with COVID-19.
The show depicts the only thing more batshit crazy in America than the outbreak itself, thus giving Americans a sense of hope and normalcy.
As such, it became the main source of entertainment for many, and a major subject of social media discussions during the shutdown.
The show Tiger King, which was about him and his exotic animal zoo in Oklahoma, aired on Netflix at the same time everyone was quarantined with COVID-19.
The show depicts the only thing more batshit crazy in America than the outbreak itself, thus giving Americans a sense of hope and normalcy.
As such, it became the main source of entertainment for many, and a major subject of social media discussions during the shutdown.
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The term Ice Cold Phatties comes from the unscrupulous hucksters who try to sell them to you in a concert or festival parking lot. "Ice Cold" because they're straight from the metal tank and literally cold, and "Phatty" because the buyer always wants the largest balloon they can find.
The term Ice Cold Phatties comes from the unscrupulous hucksters who try to sell them to you in a concert or festival parking lot. "Ice Cold" because they're straight from the metal tank and literally cold, and "Phatty" because the buyer always wants the largest balloon they can find.
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Get the backal mug.Some new-age bullshit interpretation of the Mayan calendar by a nit-wit named Jose Arguellas who thinks he's an incarnation of an ancient Mayan prophet or some shit. Basically he has a bunch of ignorant hippies thinking that the Mayans were cosmic alien galactic travelers and that the end of the world is coming in 2012. *sigh* When will people learn?
Hippie #1) What is your Dreamspell galactic signature?
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Skeptic #1) Hey you air heads - you realize the Mayans never used that new age mumbo-jumbo terminology right?
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Skeptic #1) Hey you air heads - you realize the Mayans never used that new age mumbo-jumbo terminology right?
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