Word Game - Alternate meanings.

[Basil]

Let's star a new game - Alternate meanings for common (or not so common) words. The only rule is, you have to make it up yourself - no fair Googleing examples.

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meteorologist | ˌmeaty-urologist |
noun - a urinary tract specialist who needs to go on a diet.

plethora | ˈpleTHərə |
noun (a plethora of) - a word that people who want to sound really smart use to say "a lot."

 

[bobhustead]

Having had prostate cancer, I used the joke that a meterologist is a bad choice for digital prostate exams
Bob

 

[mikephillips]

Ford - American southern for that area between your eyes and hairline

 

[Basil]

Ford - American southern for that area between your eyes and hairline

Earl - Southern for the stuff you put in your crankcase.

 

[bobhustead]

Polynesia - Not being able to remember a whole bunch of stuff.
Bob

 

[Basil]

Polynesia - Not being able to remember a whole bunch of stuff.
Bob

I'll have to remember that one!

 

[Basil]

Department - What your dwelling is called after you're evicted.

 

[maynard]

NASCAR. Southern for nice caar

 

[Basil]

NASCAR. Southern for nice caar

Or, as it’s known in Boston, NASCAH.

 

[mikephillips]

wok - What Elmer Fudd would try to drop on the road runner when he covers for the absent coyote in the cartoons.

 

[JPSmit]

wok - What Elmer Fudd would try to drop on the road runner when he covers for the absent coyote in the cartoons.

 

[Basil]

Latte: (N), Italian for "you paid too much for that coffee."

 

[JHaydon]

Expresso: (N), American for "I'm not a strong reader."

 

[JHaydon]

Autobiography: (N), remembering dates solely based on what cars you owned at the time. [Example: "No, this year will only be our 19th anniversary -- the Saab was already gone before we met, and I sold it on April 12, 2005..." ] See also: Sleeping on the couch.

 

[JHaydon]

Back to the coffee theme...

Decaf: (N), To remove a baby cow
Latte: (adj), Canadian, opposite of "a little"
Cappuccino: (N), American for "I can't remember the difference between that and a latte"
Breve: (N), see Cappuccino
Cortado, (N), see Cappuccino
Affogato, (N), see Cappucci-- wait, is that the dessert one?
Macchiato: (N), see Capp-- is that the one with chocolate? I think I like that one?
Americano: (N), 1. What Americans mean when they order "just coffee". 2. What European baristas mutter under their breath after an American shrieks "no, I just want COFFEE!" Usually followed by "stupido".

 

[JHaydon]

Asteroids (N) -- drugs that build a really muscular butt

 

[bobhustead]

Disoriented - One who has been expelled from China.
Bob

 

[John Turney]

Unfortunate - an empty fortune cookie.

 

[Basil]

Meteorologist: An obese urologist. (Meaty Urologist)
I’ll go back to my cave.

 

[Basil]

Khakis: What Bostonians use to start their cars.