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The Washington Post publishes a yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. The following were some recent winning entries:
Coffee: (n.), a person who is coughed upon
Flabbergasted: (adj.), appalled over how much weight you've gained
Abdicate: (v.), to give up alll hope of ever having a flat stomach
Esplanade: (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk
Negligent: (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmeindedly answer the door in your nightie
Lymph: (v.), to walk with a lisp
Flatulence: (n.), the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller
Balderdash: (n.), a rapidly receding hairline
Circumvent: (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts
Frisbeetarianism: (n.), the belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there
Pokemon: (n.), a Jamaican proctologist
Coffee: (n.), a person who is coughed upon
Flabbergasted: (adj.), appalled over how much weight you've gained
Abdicate: (v.), to give up alll hope of ever having a flat stomach
Esplanade: (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk
Negligent: (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmeindedly answer the door in your nightie
Lymph: (v.), to walk with a lisp
Flatulence: (n.), the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller
Balderdash: (n.), a rapidly receding hairline
Circumvent: (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts
Frisbeetarianism: (n.), the belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there
Pokemon: (n.), a Jamaican proctologist