Bombay Sunrise

to separate from your children on the first ski run of the day and leave supervision of them to your ski buddies.

Etymology: Ski culture - Inland NW, USA. A subset of the term "Indian outsourcing".

Willy pulled a Bombay Sunrise and we didn't see him again until lunch.

Girlfriend Powder

Definition: a texture of snow favored by skiers for its quality and consistency.

Function: noun

Etymology: Ski culture - Inland NW, USA; the name of this form of snow originates from an analogous description of a former girlfriend described as “slightly dense, but a lot of fun”.

Grinning, Willy dove into a sweet line of untracked girlfriend powder.

didabolean logic

Pronunciation: did-ə-ˈbō-lē-ən ˈlä-jik
Function: noun
Etymology: Ski culture - Inland NW USA
Date: 2010

A particular mode of reasoning that results from smoking marijuana.

His decision to put on some music and have a beer, rather than to return to work, was a result of some solid didabolean logic.

fuhrman

Definition: an object, like a glove, dropped from a chairlift
Pronunciation: fərˈ-mən
Function: noun
Etymology: Ski culture - Inland NW, USA; derived from Mark Fuhrman the detective on the OJ Simpson case suspected of dropping a bloody glove at the crime scene.

At the end of the ski season after the snow melted, Willy hiked under the chair looking for fuhrmans.

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pakalolo

Definition: a form of soft snow texturally similar to Hawaiian shave ice that accumulates on the edge of a tracked up ski run; faux powder

Pronunciation: poc-uh-loh'-loh

Etymology: Ski culture - Inland NW, USA

I left the frozen main part of the run and found some nice turns in the pakalolo.

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