The point in alcohol consumption where the imbiber goes from a little tipsy to full-on inebriated. Usually happens quickly if drinking on an empty stomach or from mixing many types of alcohol at one sitting.
Shelia was fine after splitting that bottle of wine at dinner, but she went off the grid soon after chugging Jane's orphaned vodka drinks.
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Grid-zombie- A human being that fears "deautomatization" and continues, constantly in the habitual psychological structures that organize, limit, select, and interpret perceptual stimuli. I.e.; limiting one's self to a very confined "comfort zone" of location and behavior. See: Steel cocoon.
I traveled 6,000 miles on foot and by thumb, from one end of this land to the other, sleeping in the woods, while all you grid-zombies traveled 12,000 miles, in your rolling, steel, cages in a 7.5 mile radius from your steel cocoons.
A poverty stricken urban or suburban area, in which access to grocery stores and fresh food is severely limited, and also suffers from a significant lack of public transportation.
"We need to push legislation for grocery access in west Dallas, it's in the middle of the hunger grid."
A Texas Grid can be considered a bad grid which canβt handle any type of weather.
Dad: Looks like we have a Texas Grid
Me: Are you kidding me
A street pattern that combines the features of the traditional city grid and the contemporary suburban road layout.
An approved Secondary plan for the City of Stratford, ON which is based on the Fused Grid model,that can be seen on the City's web site.
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Living in a place where buses, trains, and supply lines don't run. When someone says you're on your own now Jack it's because you really are, even if your name is not really Jack.
Christy-Damn that's a nasty cut on your arm Jack, aren't you gonna go to the doctor and have them take a look at it? Oh yea, what was I thinking there's never been any buses or cabs out here off the grid.
Phil- You never cared that my name is not Jack or that I'm gonna die from this cut soon. You are the doctor god dammit I hope you know what you're doing!
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Off the grid is an adjective or adverb, referring to the most extreme level of creativity and originality - sometimes, to a fault. AKA oteegee.
It may describe people, things, trends or actions.
Off the grid can describe current events which may be sinister. It may also describe people who have proven themselves so far superior in their chosen field that no one can compare.
It may also describe creativity or genius that's oftentimes so advanced that those who possess oteegee were often decades before their time.
Sometimes, innovation came so far before the general public was ready to accept it, that the originator actually died penniless, as is the case with many "off the grid" artists, engineers and inventors.
Utter genius beyond conventional comparison.
Leonardo DaVinci proved himself as an off the grid inventor.
Bob Dylan's off the grid musical talent is so powerful it keeps people buying albums long after his voice has failed him.
Michael Jordan and basketball? One word: oteegee, baby.
9-11's off the grid terror brought America to its knees.
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