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A new name for Facebook, now that it consists mainly of "shared" articles or YouTube clips that are just pasted in, and very little original material.
Originated in a mishearing, my husband said Facebook but I thought he was being witty by referring to it as Pastebook or paste-book, since we had recently noted that most of the material there is just repostings.
To climb a mountain trail with vigor and determination
Joshua Quitter began a recent article in Time magazine about a Palm's Pre, profiling the man who created it, writing on June 15, 2009: "A few weeks ago, Jon Rubinstein
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"
A book written for a mature audience. This type of book usually has sex scenes and other content that would be inappropriate for younger readers. This is a term used to cover up the fact you are reading a "naughty book".
A: This is such a great book!
B: What's it about?
A: Oh, you know, its a jackie book
Old fart
Refering to a downer
Party pooper
"What a burnt book"
"Johns being such a burnt book"
"Book banning" isn't actually banning books in America because the 1st Amendment's protection of the freedom of speech prevents any and all book bans. Instead, "book bannong" is a grossly exaggerated phrase used by a small fraction of people, usually of a liberal persuasion, who wish to incite fearmongering among the populace, usually over books the fearmongers support that are very inappropriate for the age groups they are intended for, specifically regarding graphically sexual material. Removing or restricting children's access to these books, even if merely requiring parental notification and consent for their children to read the books, comes nowhere near the idea behind actual book banning.
"Boy, I gotta tell ya. Conservative Christians don't want middle schoolers reading a book in class describing two boys sucking each other's dicks. Those fundies sure love book banning."