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Advertising and promotional slang for a DEad ceLEBrity, especially one whose image can be used in advertising and, through photoshop or other c.g.i. process, can be seen to advocate contemporary products or causes.
Right to use such images can be bought and sold, much like the endorsements and images of still-alive celebrities.
Right to use such images can be bought and sold, much like the endorsements and images of still-alive celebrities.
by al-in-chgo June 22, 2010
Get the deleb mug.Of or pertaining to the penis, penile.
The beauty of "priapic" is its semi-coded function: it can mean penile in a flaccid or an erect way.
"Priapic" is an adjective from name Priapus, but that word and the medical condition called priapism usually connote erection (i.e. "erection lasting four or more hours").
The beauty of "priapic" is its semi-coded function: it can mean penile in a flaccid or an erect way.
"Priapic" is an adjective from name Priapus, but that word and the medical condition called priapism usually connote erection (i.e. "erection lasting four or more hours").
Todd: "Well, Robb, now that Men magazine and Playgirl have stopped publishing, what are you doing to encourage your little priapic enthusiasms?"
Robb: "Fuck you, gay boy, you've never heard of Internet porn? And it ain't little."
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Robb: "Fuck you, gay boy, you've never heard of Internet porn? And it ain't little."
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by al-in-chgo May 10, 2010
Get the priapic mug.When a reviewer or critic who gets into a tradeoff of critical praise or "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" situation. Implicitly or by agreement, one reviewer exchanges praise (often fatuous) with another in the hopes his inflated regard will find its way into publicity, advertising copy, book-jacket blurbs and the like and increase the other's visibility (and sell more books). The favor is expected to be returned, and at some point is. Probably descended from the literal use of logrolling as a pioneer sport, in which neither participant can stay on the round, floating timber unless one is pedaling frantically one way, one the other, although the symbolism invoking a mutual-gratification pact analogous to masturbation cannot be denied.
In the 1980s, SPY magazine ran a regular column called "Logrolling In Our Time" giving exact instances of such tit for tat.
In the 1980s, SPY magazine ran a regular column called "Logrolling In Our Time" giving exact instances of such tit for tat.
-- "Oh, God. This is logrolling at its worst. A___ says on the dust jacket of B____'s new novel that 'a new American voice is born.' Three months later B____, now bestselling author, says that A____'s latest textbook is 'unchallengeable in its supremacy in this field.'"
-- "They belong to a mutual admiration society, intellectually speaking."
-- "I'm sorry; did you say "intellectual mastur---"
-- "Shhh!"
-- "They belong to a mutual admiration society, intellectually speaking."
-- "I'm sorry; did you say "intellectual mastur---"
-- "Shhh!"
by al-in-chgo June 13, 2013
Get the logrolling mug.Narcissistic self-reference that an online contributor can use to signify that he or she has reached the hundredth-post marker of Urban Dictionary submissions.
(A compound of CENTenary (or CENTennial number) + senSATION. ;)
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(A compound of CENTenary (or CENTennial number) + senSATION. ;)
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-- "That's it! U.D. published submission Number One Hundred of mine!" -- "You've reached your centenary on that count. Now you've become a centsation in your own mind, haven't you?"
by al-in-chgo June 26, 2010
Get the centsation mug.Adjective form of approval for gay man with a high "Woof!" potential; generally expresses a gay man's admiration for a particularly virile gay male like a hairy-chested bear or well-defined muscle daddy. The woofy object of admiration is more likely to be older rather than younger than the woofer (admirer).
See also Woof!
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See also Woof!
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"Okay, so who's woofier: Blake Nolan or Tim Kelly?" --
"Hard to choose, dude, they're both so woofy. I wouldn't kick either out of bed."
"Hard to choose, dude, they're both so woofy. I wouldn't kick either out of bed."
by al-in-chgo February 25, 2010
Get the woofy mug.Term adopted by fans of CBS-TV's police-procedural drama, THE MENTALIST. Came from a typically offhanded slighting remark by title character Patrick Jane (Simon Baker). Refers to the kind of just-barely-dressy beachcomber-type sandals often worn by Teresa Lisbon, co-star (Robin Tunney).
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"My firm is very conservative and frowns slightly on Lisbon Loafers, even in the summer. Actually, policy is kind of hypocritical because no one minds secretaries in them, but nonetheless it's a big turn-off to HR when a women interviews in them. Unfair, no?"
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by al-in-chgo July 6, 2010
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