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Definitions by al-in-chgo

the tick-tock 

Informal American journalese for a detailed chronology of events.
"We don't know the tick-tock of those (scandalous) events yet." ~ Chuck Todd, MEET THE PRESS, February 11, 2018.
the tick-tock by al-in-chgo May 5, 2018

circumbendibus 

Amusing fake Latin, in use since the late Eighteenth Century.
"I'm not going to argue with you any more! We're just going 'round and 'round, and I won't get on that circumbendibus again!"
circumbendibus by al-in-chgo February 12, 2018
Fast-paced. More commonly used in the UK than in North America.
"This book is a pacy, compelling account of one of the field's most gifted leaders blurb."
pacy by al-in-chgo July 26, 2017
1) Traditional nickname of Republican party, short for "Grand Old Party."

2) More recently, slang for a pizza topped with pepperoni, onion and green pepper.

(G=Green pepper; O=Onion; P=Pepperoni.)
-- "You should stay, I just ordered a GOP and there'll be plenty of food."

-- "I didn't know they made house calls. What do you mean?"
-- "A GOP is a pizza topped with green pepper, onion, and pepperoni."

-- "I'd love to share, if a political agnostic is allowed to partake."
GOP by al-in-chgo June 10, 2017

Papadaddy 

1. Traditionally, a Southern USA expression for a grandfather, probably from "Papa's Daddy."

2. By extension, a traditionally masculine (non-Metrosexual) man who plays a "Daddy" role emotionally, sexually or financially.
-- "Who's that man I saw you with at the cafeteria? He's old enough to be your father."

-- "Dear heart, he's almost old enough to be my grandfather and I am just lovin' it! Papadaddy! Papadaddy!"
Papadaddy by al-in-chgo June 7, 2017

honey badger 

A vicious and very hardy feral animal that can withstand attacks, stings, and even snake bites yet keeps on killing and eating. Metaphorically, an assistant or political operative who takes a similar "no-holds-barred" approach and is always on the attack despite attacks and reprisals.
"Official Washington and its counterparts around the globe are struggling to understand just how much the honey badgers are now running the show." - TIME magazine, 13 February 2017
honey badger by al-in-chgo February 4, 2017

Pennsyltucky 

The area of Pennsylvania, generally east and south of Pittsburgh in the Appalachian Mountain chain, that behaves more like Appalachia than the affluent East. Pennsyltucky is characterized by a poorish white population, mountain living, and a lack of cultural and ethnic diversity. It is a portmanteu of PENNSYLvania and KenTUCKY, the former state showing its mid-Atlantic location and the latter its poor ethnic white makeup. It is worth noting that Pennsylvania and Kentucky have no common border, so the term differs from more common locutions like "Illiana" or "Ark-La-Tex."
-- "Did you know that Vice President Joe Biden coined the term Pennsyltucky?"
-- Actually the term was in use over ten years ago, but Biden reactivated it to refer to a distinct geographical and ethnic bloc within Pennsylvania -- a bloc that Donald Trump would probably have to win to take all of Pennsylvania in the 2016 Presidential election."
Pennsyltucky by al-in-chgo August 4, 2016