School

n. School is a place to receive a type of education.
Often derided by lower achievers and mouth-breathing droolers.
Necessary preparation for a life beyond the subsistence level.
Can be a very entertaining place where you learn about social interaction, cooperation, achievement and self-discipline.
May be public or private in US, or private or public in UK.
v. to instruct

People who don't like school often end up working for people who do.
He dropped out of school and couldn't even get a job flipping burgers.
She had to leave school after she got knocked up.
He flunked out of school, which is pretty hard to do these days.
She was schooled in the ways of Hogwarts.

Birmingham

aka Brom, Brummagem, etc
a historical English city of great import that often gets a bad rap.
Queen of the West Midlands, King of the Hill, and you can fly out of there, too.

I grew up in the Bull Ring in Birmingham, so people think I talk funny.
They named a town in Alabama after my city, so there is a Brom in the New World, too.

Cliterature

alternate definition: 1970's derogatory term for women's literature. Now archaic.

Concept was that writing was either literature or it was not literature, so any attempt to manufacture a subgroup was somehow denigrating the legitimate body of work.

Sprang from growth of Women's Studies programs at US universities.

Sometimes also used to describe Comparative Literature, although usage may have faded into obscurity.

she majored in English and minored in History, then switched to cliterature

downside of street cred

selling your soul to try to please some imagined audience

he bought the shoes and shirt but wasn't accepted so he found out about the downside of street cred.
Diluted standards and lowest common denominators are the dirty open secret of the downside of street cred.

Polish threesome

any group sex activity with more than two people

We had a Polish threesome last night after the basketball game

C and E

C and E is casino slang for a bet on "Craps and Eleven". Observable at any casino where there is a Craps table.

Give me C and E for 100 and put the rest on a hard ten

scrapper

also spelled s'crapper: someone that gets by on scraps, or gets into scraps, and might as well live in a crapper; a down-and-outer, a loser

that dude is a real s'crapper - he lives in a refrigerator box in the alley; he is a scrapper.