# What words or phrases have you coined? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 4, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354 "2000-06-04T06:43:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![SultryMusic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@SultryMusic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SultryMusic)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/161 "2001-09-22T02:05:21Z")
Schlub…walking around slowly…kinda snail-like Chumalumading dong…anything alcoholic chibberlips…kissy lips Me and my fiance’ are always making up new ones…soon we’ll have our own language… ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/162 "2001-09-22T02:20:12Z")
Not mine, but entertaining nonetheless. From creative people I have known and loved: cuddly sac - for cul de sac o’dark thirty - very early in the morning sarconic - self-explanitory ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/163 "2001-09-22T02:41:17Z")
I plan on history remembering me as one of the greastest suppliers of quotes since Mark Twain. Unfortunately none spring to mind. It’s not that they’re not great quotes, it’s just that I’m so damn modest. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/164 "2001-09-23T06:51:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*Well, [Numpty](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=82370), of course. \*\* Hate to tell you this, but “numpty” is very old Army slang. In the Army, a “numpty” is someone more competent than a “thud” but slightly less competent than a “knobthruster.” ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/165 "2001-09-24T00:41:37Z")
Coined words: **Masturwaiting** – Masturbating to pass the time. **Octopy** (and all variations thereof, especially **octopying** and **octopycation** )-- To make out with great enthusiasm in a public/semipublic place. And in the New Usage category: **Chimney** – A smoker. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/166 "2001-09-24T01:05:55Z")
I have a friend given to spoonerisms, and she came up with “horizontical” as the opposite of vertical. Her son overheard the term “hubba hubba” but misremembered it, and, catching his mom and dad kissing, said “hoosha hoosha!” Hubby and I make word-mangling a hobby, so we often say things like “read the destructions” and “you can’t use that, it’s busticated” or “brokified”. ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/167 "2001-09-24T01:54:09Z")
Past tense of “highlight” should be “ **highlit** ” so I use it. At a staff meeting, I response to frustrated rants about our inability to sync up reports generated by two systems, “Hey, we’ll never be able to make it right. All we can do is to **narrow the window of wrongness**.” One of my staff wrote it on our whiteboard, where it lived for several weeks. Another whiteboard winner was about some problems that were occurring on our Internet sites: “Yep, it’s a hamster in the python of eCommerce, all right.” -Sue p.s. “not a happy camper” was coined much earlier than 1983, I think. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/168 "2001-09-29T18:48:22Z")
I present, for your approval, the phrase “Pulled a Nightline”. For those of you may not know this fact (people my age or younger), Nightline began its life as a series of special reports on the Iranian hostage situation in 1979. After a while, ABC found that they couldn’t break their obsessive compulsive habit of broadcasting news at 11:30pm, so they left the show on their schedule, changed the name from “America Held Hostage” to “Nightline” and started pumping Ted Koppel with coffee through an I.V. Basically “Pulling a Nightline” means taking advantage of a unforseen news event to expand or launch a news program on the fly. That has happened a lot here in Washington, basically by WUSA-TV (the CBS affiliate here). During the so-called “Blizzard of '96,” Channel 9 decided to begin airing news at 5am because the first instint that humans have when faced with a two or three feet of snow is to wake up well before dawn. That weekend, they prempted their normal slate of cartoons and informercials to also show news. These programs still exist to this day. In fact, Channel 9 may yet again be pulling a Nightline. They normally air their Saturday morning program at 7, but this morning they had a “Special Report” on _Operation Enduring Freedom_. This special report included, among other stories, what the return of His-Airness–Sir Michael Jordan–would mean to the Washington Wizards. How that helps Operation Freedom, I do not know. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/169 "2001-09-30T02:32:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by notcynical \* > \*\*My brother coined “beer me”, as in “get me a beer”, about 5 or 6 years ago. I heard Jimmy Kimmel use it on “The Man Show” the other day. Thus, it has moved across the nation from New York to California! \*\* this has been around a lot longer then that. my friends and I were using it in the late 80’s/early 90’s during drinking games such as **Asshole**. “beer me, Asshole,” was a common utterance. Also, I’d be surprised if Norm from Cheers didn’t say this a time or too… ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/170 "2001-09-30T09:33:42Z")
**All monkeyed up** : the condition your car seat and mirrors are in after someone much shorter/taller than you drives it. The result of monkeying with something. **Encrapulated** : what text documents look like when you open them with the wrong program. **Bullwinkle** : a know-it-all, from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show’s 'Ask Mr. Know-it-all" **Wetware interface issue** : Tech support term for an idiot user, also **Luser**. I may not have been the first to coin any of these but I don’t recall having heard them before I said them. ---
**Author:** ![dese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@dese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dese)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/171 "2001-09-30T18:11:33Z")
For Breasts…Chesticals 🙂 J. ---
**Author:** ![theretsof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@theretsof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theretsof)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/172 "2001-09-30T23:20:15Z")
I’ve tried to get spread the term “ass” to mean “good” for the last 2 years. So far its a private joke between several of us, and the other dozens of people just look at me funny. shrug. i like it ---
**Author:** ![carldean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@carldean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carldean)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/173 "2013-02-13T17:41:24Z")
In 1982 I was in the military. Living in the barracks. One morning after a margarita party my roommate had a terrible hangover. I was known for my verbal antics, and thats when it hit me looking at him reminded of a puppy a saw that had drank some antifreeze and I said to him you are one sick puppy. Thats where it came from. Just ask Ralph Stevens a.k.a. COUNTRY ANTHONY BURNS COINED THAT PRHASE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/174 "2013-02-13T17:46:41Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, carldean. The thread you just replied to is actually 12 years old. In these cases, we really prefer that you just start a new thread rather then revive one this old. Closed, but if anyone wants to tell their story, feel free to make a new one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354.md?page=8)