Nightmare

1a. a dream composed that causes or suggests fear in the dreamer.
1b. an extremely distressing experience that should only have been a dream, but was actually real.
2. a (quite ugly and scary-looking, and hence aptly named) gravity-controlling creature in Metroid Fusion. its defeat yields the Gravity Suit.
3. a music track from the Castlevania series. it first stars as the background music for Alucard's caves in Castlevania 3, and is later remixed and reused in the Underground Waterway area of Castlevania: Circle of the Moon.
4. another music track from the Castlevania series. this one is distinctly different, and only shares the name with the other track. this one appears in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.

1. "That dream...was a nightmare."
2. The plots of some SVU episodes might be nightmares if they happened in real life.
3. "Nightmare" is one of the musically strangest tracks. It differs in style significantly from its brethren in both of the games where it appears.
4. LoI's "Nightmare" is in B minor.

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legion

1. a unit of the Roman army, with about a few thousand people. the term was subsequently adopted for other armed forces units throughout history.

2. a recurring boss in the castlevania series of video games, Legion is a floating creature (sometimes containing something akin to a fetus inside it) with beam-shooting tentacles, and shell surrounding itself completely made of human bodies. it is normally found in a catacombs-like area.

1. He was put in charge of this legion, which had the difficult task of circumventing the mountain range in order to attack the enemy forces from behind.

2. Holy crap, Legion looks worse than a nightmare. Only Beezelbub or Nightmare (from Metroid Fusion) come close.

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Leeroy Jenkins

is apparently stupid as hell, but at least possesses chicken.

Leeroy Jenkins went from gaming in-joke to world-wide fame.

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Miranda

short for Miranda v. Arizona, the court case that produced the policy in the US of informing criminal suspects of their "Miranda rights".

Miranda says that you have to read the suspect his rights.

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going public

A company that's originally privately-owned "goes public" when it lists itself on a stock market and sells its shares to the public. It then becomes "publicly-owned", as the true owners of the company are not its directors or executives but its shareholders.

Upon hearing that the company was going public, the investors started speculating how the decision would impact the company's performance.

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