Browsing page 7 of words meaning broken (73 words total)

adjective

• unattractive.

  He's skid.

  • See more words with the same meaning: unattractive, ugly.

  Last edited on Dec 27 1997. Submitted by Jen from Winnipeg, MB, Canada on Dec 27 1997.

noun

• an unkempt person.

  He dresses like a skid.

  • See more words with the same meaning: unattractive, ugly person (either gender).

  Last edited on Oct 24 1997. Submitted by Tracy from Flin Flon, Canada on Oct 24 1997.

• the mark left inside underwear due to insufficient wiping. From skid mark.
  • See more words with the same meaning: abbreviations (list of).
  • See more words with the same meaning: briefs, underwear.
  • See more words with the same meaning: stain.

  Last edited on Dec 24 2007. Submitted by CF from Santa Cruz, CA, USA on Dec 24 2007.

noun

• feces stains on underwear.

  I better do laundry, the skid marks are building up!

  • See more words with the same meaning: briefs, underwear.
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  Last edited on Jan 13 1998. Submitted by Emily M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Jan 13 1998.

• tracks made by tires when "peeling out" or "burning rubber."

  I laid some skid marks over there.

  • See more words with the same meaning: vehicles (related to).

  Last edited on Jan 13 1998. Submitted by Emily M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Jan 13 1998.

• feces smears left in the toilet bowl after flushing.

  Gross, you left a skid mark!

  • See more words with the same meaning: briefs, underwear.
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  Last edited on Jan 13 1998. Submitted by Emily M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Jan 13 1998.

• stiff, sore. possibly Middle South origin.

  I am all stove up in my joints.

  He was right stove up.

  He's right stove up.

  Last edited on Apr 27 2013. Submitted by Edward I. from Shreveport, LA, USA on Aug 21 2002.

• Smashed, broke, destroyed or otherwise damaged something. This usually is used to indicate extreme damage. Origin: Downeast Maine.

  She stove up the truck when she skidded into the trees.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to break, ruin, destroy.

  Last edited on May 19 2011. Submitted by Lee O. from Brewer, ME 04412, USA on Oct 28 2002.

• of a person, injured. Origin: Downeast Maine.

  He fell skiing and got so stove up they had to take him down in the toboggan.

  Last edited on Mar 21 2011. Submitted by Lee O. from Brewer, ME 04412, USA on Oct 28 2002.

• Cattlemen and buckaroos say "stove up," meaning an occupational hazard of working with horses. Horses buck, kick, bite and do stupid things which cause chronic injuries, rendering people working with horses stove up.

  For a man to be stove up at thirty may sound strange to some people, but many a cowboy has been so bunged up that he has to quit riding that early in life. -- James Emmit McCauley.

  Last edited on Jun 17 2004. Submitted by Anonymous on Jun 17 2004.

• Primarily used in the Southwest as a past tense to describe the results of physical abuse, for example, having been kicked by a horse or mule, struck by a car, or beaten by a human. It would not be used to describe morning stiffness due to arthritis.

  Last edited on Jul 20 2009. Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 20 2009.

adjective

• condition in which the body feels very sore, stiff, and unmovable.

  After an evening on the town with Flynn Ryder, she was all stove up.

  Last edited on Apr 08 2013. Submitted by k r. on Jul 02 2004.

• dead - tits up. Etymology: "tango" is radio dispatcher code for the letter T, and "uniform" is radio dispatcher code for the letter "U."

  Tango uniform, man!

  Last edited on Jul 12 2005. Submitted by Larry K. from Lawrence, KS, USA on Jul 12 2005.

adjective

• out of service, broken, useless, inoperative. From "tits up".

  My car is Tango Uniform.

  Man, the photocopier is Tango Uniform again!

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  Last edited on Mar 09 2011. Submitted by Coyote on Apr 05 2002.

• on one's back, passed out or sleeping.

  He got hammered last night and he's still tango uniform.

  Last edited on Mar 09 2011. Submitted by Coyote on Apr 05 2002.

• tits up. A (primarily military) phrase to describe something that is dead or out-of-commission, likely using the image of a dead rat or possum lifelessly floating on its back. Origin: "tango" is the NATO Phonetic Alpha for the letter T, and "uniform" is the NATO Phonetic Alpha for the letter "U."

  My computer went Tango Uniform yesterday.

  Last edited on Apr 02 2004. Submitted by m. r. from San Antonio, TX, USA on Apr 02 2004.

• Messed up, wrong, not working correctly.

  That computer program is twacked, I'll have to reinstall it.

  Man, he is so twacked. He has no idea what he's talking about.

  • See more words with the same meaning: broken.

  Last edited on Jan 10 2008. Submitted by Anonymous from ME, USA on Jan 10 2008.