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n. A style of treating patients implicitly based on their social and financial status (be it by quality or lack of insurance, etc.).
ant. outcome-based medicine, of which this term is a parody.
When I was in the ER, I didn't have proof of insurance on me, so they asked me to make a deposit of $100... as if it were income-based medicine or something!
n. Term for a project that has been dreamt about at a company (or by an individual) for years, but does not come to fruition or experiences severe delays in doing so.
Named for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, an aircraft whose maiden flight was scheduled to be sometime in late 2007 but as of now, is delayed until the spring of 2009.
That economic stimulus package Obama's trying to push through Congress is going to end up a total Dreamliner.
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n. A sexual event where one or more individuals come very close to climax, but cannot seem to actually orgasm.
Named for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, an aircraft that got repeatedly close to making its maiden flight and joining the mile-high club, but has, as of 2009, yet to do so.
I hate to admit it, but a couple nights after I started taking an SSRI med for depression, I had this total Dreamliner with my wife... I think she enjoyed it, though she does seem sore now.
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n; adj; adv.
An individual who, upon entering college, tries to do every single extracurricular activity s/he did while in high school, possibly also joining a fraternity/sorority, while still attempting to maintain their high school GPA and academic aura. Portmanteau word of frosh (slang for freshman) combined with the term manic.
c.f. froshmania, the general concept of being freshmanic.
The second the semester started, I got all froshmanic and signed up for Model UN, trivia club, pledged Sigma Epsilon Xi, decided to join the drama club, and took a bunch of sophomore-level courses.
n. The condition of having way too many instant messenger screen names, generally under one IM service (e.g., AIM).
A disturbing trend is that newer IM client programs seem to be encouraging polyscreenomia by allowing multiple simultaneous connections with different screen names to AIM. This has been leading to extensive confusion and even fraud amongst IM users.
Something that is ironic only by virtue of the fact that it is considered ironic when it is in fact, not; when an event is in fact a coincidence but instead is passed off as irony.
The fact that it rained on your wedding day is Morissettian irony, because you thought it was ironic, but it really wasn't.
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v. The act of having sex in or around Denver, Colorado, USA, a city which is approximately 5280 feet (1 mile; 1.6km) above sea level, and is known as the "Mile-High City". Bonus points if the sex involved an actual dance club in Denver.
n. mile-high club
The group of people who have had sex as defined above.
I can't believe I lost my virginity through mile-high clubbing the other night!
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