whine · flu · noun, slang. Highly contagious psychological condition affecting many urban dwellers, who often work in close proximity to one another and share similar lifestyles. Symptoms often include open and grotesque displays of dissatisfaction with SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, ROOMMATES and FRIENEMIES. Levels of complaining are often more to voice SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT than any perceived or real [...]

pro·mo·sex·u·al · noun, adjective, slang. A person – most often a member of the MEDIA or LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY — who squeezes publicists for every last free item (be it concert tickets, movie passes, party guest list spots, schwag, booze, etc.) that he/she can get out of the whole weird, warped system. Often does so [...]

sketch·bur·ger · noun, adjective, slang. 1. Person who behaves in socially suspicious ways as a general pattern of behavior. Behaviors tend to relate to problems with SEX and/or DRUGS, although, just as often a SKETCHBURGER could be suffering from a crippling SOCIAL ANXIETY that colors everything they do in an inadvertently suspicious light. Most often, [...]

pain cave · noun, adjective, slang. Though the term orginated in the 1990s via this song from the WAYNE’S WORLD films, the PAIN CAVE has come to signify in more recent times a state of abject HANGOVER brought on by overindulgence, in short times or prolonged, in ALCOHOL and DRUGS. However, the PAIN CAVE denotes [...]

Jit·bag · noun, slang. Highly pejorative term of DERISION, used to describe a person whose character, behavior, or status in life is such that he or she is eminently worthy of comparison to a FULLY UTILIZED PROPHYLACTIC that has been carelessly discarded with gay abandon. Syn.: JERKOFF, ASSHAT. The Philebrity Lexicon seeks to put down [...]

Nou·gars · slang, pejorative. Severe condition currently affecting young females, often still teenagers, in both MASS CELEBRITY CULTURE as well as the GREATER PHILADELPHIA AREA. Through a combination of nearly KABUKI-esque makeup, tacky clothing and disconcertingly banal attitudes, it is often difficult to tell whether NOUGARS are 14 or 40. In present-day celebrity culture, the [...]

Ham·mers · noun, pejorative. Classification of white males (mostly suburban) from roughly 1979 to 1990, frequently spotted in “DELCO” and other lower-middle-class suburbs. Term is derived from hammer-like motions produced in HEAD-BANGING along to heavy metal style music. HAMMERS were noted for their devotion to this style of music, as well as ROLE-PLAYING GAMES and [...]

Do·mers · noun, pejorative. Social subgroup, indigenous to the East Coast of the United States, of middle- and working-class females over the age of 13, but under 27. Indulged in HAIR-TEASING, GUM-CRACKING, and other teenage girl pastimes. However, given their ethnic, working-class backgrounds, DOMERS were also given to coarse behavior, either violent or sexual. Briefly [...]