peacefaker

1. A "peace-at-any-price" person.
2. One who makes any and all concessions necessary to keep the situation copesetic, pleasant, and non-confrontational in the short term without regard to the long term consequences.

Someone who can't say no to anyone, even if the other person isn't necessarily argumentative or contrary.

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laundrodelica

Any musak heard in a laundromat in the 1970's. Experience is perfected by the presence of avacado green dryers, burnt umber washing machines, wallpaper with orange asterisks, contact paper on the countertops festooned with olive drab polka-dotted mushrooms, and Family Circle magazines in the seating area.

Ann Murray
The Carpenters
Percy Faith
Esquivel
Les Baxter
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

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Stepford Wife

1.) Used to describe a servile, compliant, submissive, spineless wife who happily does her husband's bidding and serves his every whim dutifully.

2.) Can also be used to describe a wife who is cookie-cutter & bland in appearance and behavior. Subscribes to a popular look and dares not deviate from that look.

This term is borrowed from the fictional suburb of Stepford, Connecticut in Ira Levin's 1972 novel, The Stepford Wives, later made into movies (in 1975 and 2004). In the story, men of this seemingly ideal town have replaced their wives with attractive robotic dolls devoid of emotion or thought.

1.) She's such a stepford wife, I've seen her greet her husband at the door after work with a beer and a kiss 4 days in a row!

2.) I just got back from the pta meeting, I've never seen so many stepford wives.

2b.) The SNL skit "Mom Jeans" features women dressed to earn the SW distinction.

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factlet

A trivial, ephemeral fact; yet just as accurate. Not to be confused with factoid, which denotes less than accurate.

After a little research, it turns out that Jim's little factoid the other night was actually a factlet. (This will change how people think about President Taft).

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McBurb

Similar to tract housing, Bedroom Community, and suburb. A suburb for whom any possibility of individual character or personality has been rampantly homogonized by unregulated commercialism; as the 'Mc' prefix would denote. Residential "units" are within 3 ft. of eachother. Retail strip centers lack independent businesses of any kind, primarily big box, high volume stores. Cultural enrichment opportunities such as venues for the performing arts and museums are nowhere to be found as they are not as monetarily profitable of use of the land they occupy as retail or residential would be.

We must be in a McBurb, honey. Haven't seen an independently owned retailer for miles, and everything looks the same.

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gringify

To take anything of Mexican culture (food, music, art, etc.), and water it down to appeal to a caucasian American customer base.

Why must this brand of picante sauce have to gringify their formula beyond recognition? A salad would be tastier.

This mariachi group is so gringified, even blue hair's are buying their CD's.

And last but not least, "Nachos, Flanders style!" (cucumbers with cottage cheese)

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Butt

1. Verb - to press up against or to jostle.
2. Noun - the end part of a rifle or shotgun or machinegun that rests against the shoulder or pectoral muscles to increase stability during firing.
3. Noun - the part of a human being that knows wind and earth. The buttocks and anus of a person.
4. Noun - the recipient or target of a joke.
5. Adjective - undeniably, extremely; butt cold, butt ugly, etc.

Ever since Father O'Malley was caught butting that butt into that young choirboy's butt, he has become the butt of many butt cruel jokes.

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