a plum. My plum for getting elected was
a big new office.plumb loco[“pl@m “loko] mod. completely
crazy. (Folksy. Loco is from a Spanish
word meaning “mad.”) Yo u’r e p l u m b
loco if you think I’ll go along with that.
All those people were running around like
they were plumb loco.
PMJIinterj. Pardon me for jumping in.
(This indicates that someone is respond-
ing to a message directed to someone
else. Used in electronic mail and com-
puter forum or news group messages.
Not pronounced aloud.) PMJI, but I
have some information that would help
you with your problem. PMJI. As long
as we are talking about vacations, does
anyone know the price of admission to EP-
COT Center in Orlando, Florida?
POGo to piss off.
pocket pooln. the act of a male playing
with his genitals with his hand in his
pants pocket. (Usually objectionable.)
Stop playing pocket pool and get to work.
pocket-rocketn. the penis. (Usually ob-
jectionable.) He held his hands over his
pocket-rocket and ran for the bedroom.
Podunk[“pod@Nk] 1. n. an imaginary rural
town where everything and everyone is
backward, old-fashioned, and inferior.
I don’t want a job in Podunk. This is the
big city, not Podunk. 2. mod. rural and
backward. (Usually podunk.) I want
out of this podunk town. This podunk
place is driving me crazy.
POedmod. pissed-off. I get so POed at
you! The teacher was POed at the whole
class.
poindexter[“poIndEkst#] n. a bookish per-
son; a well-mannered good student, usu-
ally male. Charles is a poindexter, but
he’s a good guy. I’m no poindexter. In
fact, my grades are pretty low.
point man 1. n. a ballplayer who habitu-
ally scores points. Fred is supposed to
be point man for our team, but tonight he
is not doing so well. Paul is our favorite
point man. 2. n. anyone whose job it is
to score successes against the opposition.
The president expects the secretary of
defense to be point man for this new leg-
islation. I am a diplomat, not a point
man. Ask someone else to play your little
games.
pointy-headn. a studious thinker; an in-
tellectual. (See also conehead.) The
pointy-heads seem to be living in a world
of their own. Why do pointy-heads
spend so much time arguing about
nothing?
poison 1. mod. wicked; evil. Stay away
from her. She’s poison. What a poison
personality. 2. n. an alcoholic drink.
Name your poison. How about a drink
of that poison there?
poison pilln. an element introduced into
the restructuring of a corporation so that
it becomes undesirable for another cor-
poration to take over. Acme Corpora-
tion approved a poison pill to prevent a
hostile takeover. Mr. Boone would have
bought the company if it weren’t for the
poison pill.
poke 1. n. a puff of a marijuana cigarette
or pipe. (Drugs. See also toke.) Can I
have a poke of that? Hey! One poke is
enough! 2. tv. [for a male] to copulate
(with a female). (Crude. Usually objec-
tionable.) They say he poked her.
Your dog poked my dog, then ran away.
pokeyGo to poky.
poky and pokey 1. n. jail; a jail cell. (Usu-
ally with the.) She spent a day in the
poky. Have you ever been in the pokey?- mod. slow; lagging and inefficient.
Hurry up! Don’t be so poky. What a
poky old horse.
pol[pal] n. a politician. The pols are
spending my taxes like mad again. How
many pols does a democracy require any-
way?
polecatn. a mean and deceitful person,
usually male. (Folksy. Polecat is another
U.S. word for skunk. See also skunk;
stinker.) You dirty polecat! Tell that
polecat I want to talk to him.
polished (up)mod. alcohol intoxicated.
(See also waxed.) One glass of that
polished (up)