Alternate definition: What you get if you marry a woman who's a better bowler than you are.
Feline: An evolutionary cousin of the fee-tiger.
Grammar
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Grammar: Rules for speaking and writing a language, which change all the time. I distinctly remember being taught not to end a sentence with a preposition. That doesn't even set off grammar check now. We were also taught to avoid ain't, but it doesn't even set off Spellcheck now. And don't get me started on indenting paragraphs... grrrrrrrr!
Politically Correct:
Politically Correct: A cautious tactic that lets other people think that you think like they’re supposed to.
Trophy Husband:
Trophy husband: An assertion by powerful women that they can be as short-sited and stupid as any man. You go girl!
Food chain
A word describing the realisation that every time you eat something, you are also eating everything that it has eaten, and everything that had been eaten by the thing that it ate, ad infinitum. Basically, this means that every time you eat something, you're eating sh*t.
Anachronism:
Anachronism: Being afraid of spiders before they actually existed.
Mastodon
Whiskey: The sine qua non of small, hand-held brooms.
Phoenix
Phoenix: A place in Arizona where the major tourist attraction in the summer is the experience of going outside and feeling like you just entered a sauna. It may also refer to a strange bird whose notorious suicide attempts through self-immolation have always failed. I should introduce it to my dog, Fred.
Generosity:
Generosity: See tax deduction.
Selfishness
Selfishness: Haranguing the waitress all night and then not leaving a tip
Tax:
Tax: Push pins that hold up pix
Vinyl
Vinyl: Surperior way of listening to music
Photograph
You beat me to it, Dark Muse. Here's my version:
Vinyl: An ethylene molecule running one hydrogen atom short of a full load.
Photograph
Photograph - an exact facsimile of other people projected onto a two-dimensional space, but for some reason makes you look fatter than you actually are and older than you want to be.
Propoganda