RADICALIZING
To be working to make someone more radical. The speaker needed the present participle of the verb radicalize—so he formed it using the basic rule in English that –ing implies the More…
Radiopaque
opaque to radiation, visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy =There was a radiopaque substance that prevented us from obtaining a successful x-ray. Etymology : More…
Raffnad
One who is often overly complicated in their explanation of things. Apparent Meaning: Used to refer to someone that has a hard time explaining what he or she is trying to say. Type of Word More…
rageahol
any impetus or cause of extreme, uncontrollable rage. Rageahol is derived from alcohol, and the speaker clearly wanted to draw an analogy to rage and alcohol by adding –ahol to equate More…
raid
(conversion from noun to verb) RAID, V To join together separate storage disks to achieve data backup or faster read/write times [Acronym formed from Redudant Array of Independent Disks, and More…
Rail
(Clipping then zero derivation) to take the light rail train to a certain destination =I first heard this word when I asked one of my friends how we were going to get to Taco Bell. He More…
Rain
To repeatedly score points during basketball with few to no missed shots. This term is commonly used among the lingo of streetball players. When someone is raining shots, it signifies that More…
Ralph
to vomit apparent meaning: to vomit reason used: She used this slang term because a person’s name sounds more informal than vomit, and she was in a very informal situation. This term More…
Ralph
to vomit apparent meaning: to vomit reason used: She used this slang term because a person’s name sounds more informal than vomit, and she was in a very informal situation. This term More…
ralph / ralphie
a right handed turn When someone is giving you directions from the back of the car, and plainly telling you left, right, it starts to get boring, and it makes the person driving seem like More…
ramping
an illegal feature of many modified electronic paintball markers that switches the fire mode from semi to fully automatic if the trigger is pulled faster than a preset limit; this is done More…
random
Apparent meaning: an unknown person; particularly an unknown person whose presence cannot be explained. This word comes directly from the adjective random meaning ‘purposeless.’ More…
Rank
Having a foul or offensive smell or aroma; showing disgust at some action, person, or event. Rank has been used to describe the smell of rotten food but also can be used in describing More…
rape
to be punished and utterly beaten by an exam Rape is an utterly humiliating, dominating, and painful event. It is nowadays used commonly to describe the work of an inanimate thing like a More…
Rape
To perform well academically or athletically. For some reason, success has become equated with violence in today’s linguistic culture. Today’s society is certainly much less More…
Rape or be raped
used to denote a situation in which one must either do very well or very poorly, e.g. if one has homework due in one hour and one has not started it yet, one must enter "rape or be More…
rape-or-be-raped situation
(joke) A situation in which one is forced to perform an undesirable action against another (even in an abstract way) first or risk the same fate. =Formed by analogy to the phrase More…
Raped
Taking advantage of a situation, doing really well at some task. It was used in this case to emphasize the fact that he did exceptionally well on the test. The graphic and serious nature More…
Rarenormality
Something that is so normal it’s rare. I was riding the car with my girl friend and we were talking about someone who was extremely normal and non-descript. =yeah he is so normal he More…
RASTERBATOR
A service that takes images and enlarges them by making their pixels into small dots, somewhat similar to pointillism (I used the rasterbator to make these posters for my wall) The software More…