Browsing page 51 of "A" words

• a bargain.

  That car was a steal.

  Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

• the shortest, fastest, cross-country route.

  Are you going the scenic route or astronaut diaper miles?

  Last edited on Apr 30 2014. Submitted by D. F. from Butler, PA, USA on Feb 14 2007.

• a good looking older woman who by appearance and style suggests she leads a pampered lifestyle. Out of touch with reality, yet strangely attractive.

  Get a load of that gal. What an astronaut's wife.

  • See more words with the same meaning: absent minded, forgetful, confused.
  • See more words with the same meaning: attractive female.

  Last edited on Apr 30 2014. Submitted by fowler j. from Kansas City, MO, USA on Jul 29 1998.

verb - ambitransitive

• to join an online discussion and pretend to be an independent member of the community. In reality, the "astroturfer" is a a surrogate for some stakeholder - company, political faction, individual, etc. - who has something to gain or lose.

  I used to read that forum all the time, but it got taken over by astroturfing corporate shills.

  User BigUp doesn't contribute anything useful - he just astroturfs.

  Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Jim K. on May 22 2009.

origin

• The term "astroturf" is a play on "grassroots". "Grassroot movements" arise organically through the people. "Astroturfing", then, is artificial grassroots.

  Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 11 2010.

expression

• absolutely futile; pointless, worthless, inept or absurd; good-for-nothing or idiotic. More commonly used in the southern US. See also worthless as tits on a boar hog.
  
  Refers to the effectiveness and biological necessity of nipples on a boar hog; "boar" being the general term for an uncastrated male pig therefore implies that because a boar hog lacks dairy-producing mammary glands, the nipples are rendered pointless and of no use.

  To convey a person's ineptitude, pointlessness or perhaps work ethic, one might say: "His teenage son is as useless as tits on a boar hog!"

  A two-wheel drive in the mud is as useless as tits on a boar hog.

  Last edited on May 23 2016. Submitted by M. Pearl Jones from Seattle, WA, USA on Sep 14 2015.

• the experience of some unpleasantness that one gives to others.

  Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.