Search results for 'spa':

space invader (noun) : a person who invades another person's personal space; an example of a space invader is a close-talker

There was a space invader behind me in line at the store and I could feel him breathing down my neck.

Submitted by: Kimberly from Pennsylvania on May. 17, 2007 17:13

space opera (noun) : science fiction that depicts epic adventures often with grand moral and emotional themes

Submitted by: J.C. Moore from Pennsylvania on Sep. 03, 2008 13:13

spaceslag (noun) : extraterrestial manufactured material

It was interesting when scientists confirmed the witnessed- falling meterorite as slag thus being referred to as spaceslag. —Randy Masfrank, internet/google, unknown

Submitted by: Linda Ferguson from Canada on Mar. 18, 2006 15:58

spacing : The difference between the photograph and its referent. The difference between what is seen in the photograph and what is understood from it.

Spacing was a leading motivation in the creation of Surrealist photographs —Rosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde, 1986

Submitted by: Shlomo Lee Abrahmov from Israel on Oct. 26, 2005 17:58

spaghetti code (noun) : unorganized software written in a tangled mass of code with multiple goto statements and that is impossible to understand or maintain

They wanted me to modify the last programmer's software, but it was all spaghetti code, impossible to work with.

Submitted by: DrMemory from Ohio on Apr. 12, 2008 18:46

Spaghetti Space Opera

(noun) : 1960’s Italian Science Fiction movie that was dubbed in English and shown at theaters the United States. Called also "Italian Space Opera" or "Spaghetti Sci-fi", these movies are remembered for their mod style and strange, hypnotic and sexual sound tracks that the Italians did so beautifully.

I always enjoyed watching re-runs of Italian Space Operas/Spagheti Sci-fi on TV as a kid.

Submitted by: J.C. Moore from Pennsylvania on Nov. 15, 2007 13:46

Spaghetti Zombie (adjective) : relating to a genre of low-budget zombie films produced in Italy and/or by native Italian film directors

Fulci’s Spaghetti Zombie Flicks are more amusing than horrifying to me.

Submitted by: J.C. Moore from Pennsylvania on Feb. 19, 2009 11:24

spaghettification (noun) : a word used for defining the feeling of being stretched

As you are in spaghettification, the black hole will rip your atoms bit-by-bit

Submitted by: Will from Texas on Feb. 13, 2007 21:12

spaldeen (noun) : A small pink rubber ball used in various games (such as stickball)

“[T]he broom handles swiped from his mother’s closet, the pink spaldeens sailing over manhole covers: That was my mythology.” —Jonathan Mahler, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, 2006

Submitted by: N. Zoug from Massachusetts on Aug. 13, 2007 10:38

spamalanche (noun) : a big wave of unwanted commercial e-mail

Consumers should gird for a big wave of unwanted commercial e-mail in the weeks leading to Thanksgiving, when the amount of spam could double as marketers try to reach holiday shoppers, Internet security experts say. Contributing to the spamalanche: More viruses are spread via popular — and vulnerable — instant-messaging services to in... —Jon Swartz, USA TODAY, http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/..., 25 October 2005

Submitted by: Alexander Zhila from Ukraine on Oct. 26, 2005 09:13

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