ring-tailed roarer's definitions

outside-edge shopping

Buying food only from the outside edge of the supermarket, where the fresh produce, milk, juice, etc. are displayed, in order to minimize the purchase of packaged products and to maximize eating healthy

He: Your boyfriend's really into ecology these days!
She: Yeah, he's even into outside-edge shopping?
He: Meaning?
She: He only buys stuff that is displayed around the outside edge of the supermarket because he thinks it's ecologically less damaging than the rest of the stuff there -- and better for you.
He: Neat!

by ring-tailed roarer April 27, 2010

give the brown note

Tell a story or otherwise behave in such a way as to make the listener of observer feel like crapping their pants.

He: It was awful, she spent an hour telling me about her boyfriend and their problems. I almost crapped myself with boredom.
She: Yeah, a couple of days ago she did the same to me; I think she enjoys off-loading her personal life on other people -- to give the brown note.

by ring-tailed roarer January 30, 2010

Nova Scotia Slide Bum

A physical characteristic that afflicts a disproportionate number of women in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Its primary quality is a flatness of the buttocks that is so extreme that the tops of the thighs appear to slide into the shoulder-blades without significant outward interruption.

He: Look, there's Bob's really cute girlfriend. She's from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Friend: Yea, she's cute alright, but she's got Nova Scotia slide bum.
He: Yikes! Now that she's turned sideways, I see what you mean: she's got practically no ass at all!

by ring-tailed roarer September 11, 2009

Osama Bin Laden

Two shots and a splash of water.

Guy: I feel gooooood ... I think I'll have a cocktail this evening.
Bartender: What cocktail would you like?
Guy: I dunno ... something new and interesting ...
Bartender: How about an Osama Bin Laden?
Guy: What's that?
Bartender: Two shots and a splash of water.
Guy: That's good! Yeah, great .... I'll have an Osama Bin Laden.

by ring-tailed roarer May 28, 2011

rhubarb-forcer

A woman who is sexually attractive enough to cause an erection -- make the rhubarb grow -- just by looking at her.

Guy: Wow, that girl is HOT!
Friend: Yep, she's a real rhubarb-forcer!

by ring-tailed roarer April 13, 2014

Detroitus

Abandoned buildings, furniture, cars, debris, etc. in the inner core of a decaying city such as Detroit, with punning reference to detritus - that is, the decaying and fragmented matter of past civilizations.

He: God, all the empty buildings and crap in the downtown area make it look like a waste land. It's even worse than Detroit.
She: Yeah, everywhere you look, there's Detroitus.

by ring-tailed roarer May 30, 2009

oboomer

With ironic, or not, reference to the rhetorical skills and intellectual abilities of Barrack Obama, a person who boasts about their ideas and accomplishments. Depending on the context, the term is used ironically to contrast the "oboomer" with Obama, or to suggest that Obama is himself an "oboomer."

Bob never stops yapping about the great things he has done, and and is going to do. He thinks he is soooo smart.
Yeah, he's a real oboomer.

by ring-tailed roarer January 17, 2009