PRwiz101's definitions

brainbow

(n.) - a brilliant idea that soars "over the rainbow" during a group brainstorming session

"Bob, your idea is so good, I want to call it a brainbow! It really soars above the rest, and it's a keeper. Brilliant!"

-- Overheard at a watercooler in Mountain View, California on January 9, 2010

by PRwiz101 January 16, 2010

masturaption

(n.) - Masturbation based on imagined scenes of rape

"Masturbation is one thing, but you know, some pervs go overboard and get into this masturaption mindset and I don't like it at all."

overheard at a water cooler in Miami, Florida, January 6, 2011

by PRwiz101 February 19, 2011

gliral

(n.) -- A combination of the words global and viral as a portmanteau word to mean a news story or a photograph that goes global and viral.

"Wow, that Lady Gaga video went gliral today, after news leaked out about who was really in it!"

-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan on April 7, 2012

by PRwiz101 September 26, 2012

spinnovation

(n.) - Public relations spin that is put on a recent innovation and in the process putting media focus on the exact spin the company hopes to see its new product get

"Wow, if we can put the right spinnovation on the new e-reader we developed, we can leapfrog over the competition."

-- overheard at a watercool at a Silicon Valley computer firm

by PRwiz101 September 6, 2009

booking up a mountain

To climb a mountain trail with vigor and determination

Joshua Quitter began a recent article in Time magazine about a Palm's Pre, profiling the man who created it, writing on June 15, 2009: "A few weeks ago, Jon Rubinstein
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"

by PRwiz101 July 3, 2009

apocapricious

An apocalyptic feeling or prediction that is characterized by or subject to whim; someone who issues predictions of a future apocalypse who is both impulsive and unpredictable.

"You know, the British doomsayer James Lovelock has some good ideas about climate change and global warming, but his ideas about breeding pairs of humans surviving in an uninhabited and desolate Arctic is completely over the top and apocapricious!"

-- Overheard at a pub in Cornwall, England

by PRwiz101 May 24, 2009

flattersulted

A portmanteau word combining flattered and insulted; when you are both flattered and insulted by someone's remarks or actions

"Hey, I got a note today from a guy who fished my bestselling novel out of a garbage can in New York and told me he enjoyed reading it. Flattering? Insulting? I'm experiencing some mixed emotions. Maybe I've been flattersulted."

-- overheard at a watercooler outside a publisher's office in Manhattan, March 30, 2010

by PRwiz101 April 1, 2010