chitlin

Not pork fat, but the large intestine of a hog. Signature variety meat of soul food and Southern cuisine in general. Cleaned, cut, and then fried or boiled.
Known for a distinctive aroma.

Some love chitlins while others can't stand the smell.

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sticky widget

(stik-EE widge-ET, likely American)

Contradiction or intellectual impasse. A corruption of the phrase sticky wicket, describing a tricky situation in the game of cricket. The substitution of widget for wicket suggests a substitution of a more familiar word given most Americans' ignorance of the game.

see also sticking point, widget.

Dick: "I wonder which holds greater cosmic import -- the ontology of giraffes or Polynesian linguistics."

Jane: "What a sticky widget. Let's go get some Burger King."

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maxed out

To use to the limit; to fully exploit. Usually means to quickly spend a credit card up to the limit.

see also maxxed out

Bambi maxed out a credit card in one day while on a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus.

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schmo

Yiddish for an idiot or a cuckold. Essential loan word in New Yorkese English, along with all the other Yiddish insults. See also schmuck.

That schmo just took my spot and flipped me the bird. Jerk.

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sampling

The art of traveling around a supermarket or warehouse club where free dood samples are offered. A person can make a tasty meal out of sampling depending on his or her talent. Try not to linger or appear too often at a particular sample station. Also, beware of salsa samples as others may have double dipped the salsa.

Velma: I'm'a on a diet, Shirl. I don't eat fudge bars anymore.

Shirl: They're setting out samples.

Velma: Oh, and let's try the pigs in a poke

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Daria

Women's name, feminine version of Darius. Recently, character on and title of MTV's Daria. A highly sarcastic, socially isolated, but extremely cool woman I'd like to meet (if she were real.)

Man, you and your sister are totally like Daria and Quinn!

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voodoo

(lit.) Haitian religion combining Catholicism and West African-influenced animist beliefs.

(colloq.) Any strange ritual or behavior, especially one meant to do harm to another person. See also voodoo doll.

Darlene, angry that her hubby ran off with a waitress from a pachino parlor, made a voodoo doll of him in a B-rate movie sort of revenge.

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