# Words or phrases you've coined (update to closed thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283 "2013-02-14T15:08:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/41 "2013-02-17T19:20:13Z")
I’m still trying to get “sprike”, a gutterball/spare frame, going in bowling alleys. My son called the act of releasing the pressure in a pop bottle before opening it all the way “sneezing” the pop. My sister and I used to call especially personality-less, shapeless people WABs, Walking After-Births, but I’m not sure if we made it up or heard it elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/42 "2013-02-19T20:30:40Z")
I use “pulled an OJ” for when someone who owes someone a lot of money suddenly claims to be broke. I often tell people who are worrying about trivia matters (My neighbor hasn’t returned my punchbowl, and I need it for this weekend) “I only worry about things that involve fire or blood.” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/43 "2013-02-19T22:10:49Z")
“Fractal cyborg”; a cyborg which is formed of merged machinery and flesh at every scale at once. From a mix of mechanical & organic limbs, to cybernetic organs among living ones, to cells with synthetic organelles inside them; whatever scale you look at it, it is both machine and organic. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/44 "2013-02-19T23:04:09Z")
I really want to ask how you came up with this phrase, but I’m afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/45 "2013-02-19T23:27:36Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I really want to ask how you came up with this phrase, but I’m afraid. Trying to come up with a group classification for creatures like that in fiction; the Chironians in [The Ring of Charon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_of_Charon) and sequels for example. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/46 "2013-02-20T20:54:04Z")
“I’ve dumped my pedophile boyfriend and now I’m dating a sadist.” “A step up from the basement doesn’t put you in the attic.” ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/47 "2013-02-20T21:11:26Z")
Back in college they gave us a welcome to the dorm pack that had Daytime relief cold medicine. Quite proud that the company eventually changed it to DayQuil like we called it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283.md?page=2)