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id="description_0"><h2>Bikini Burger</h2>Okay, I get the burger part, but... where does the 'bikini' part come from?<p></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-71756731/stock-photo-woman-with-beautiful-body-on-a-tropical-beach.html?src=csl_recent_image-10">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_1"><h2>Kneel At The Altar</h2>Ummm... how did this nickname happen? Is a vagina equivalent to an altar? Are they worshipping it? Okay, I can handle that.<p></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-116167273/stock-photo-the-chapel-royal-is-a-gothic-revival-building-designed-by-francis-johnston-it-is-famous-for-its.html?src=csl_recent_image-6">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_2"><h2>Have A Box Lunch</h2>Get it? Because box is another name for vagina. And you eat it. Get it?<p></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-102504290/stock-photo-box-lunch-sandwich-for-school-or-busy-adults.html?src=csl_recent_image-14">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_3"><h2>Red Wings</h2>This slang phrase refers to when a dude gives a girl oral sex when she has her period. He earns his red wings!<p></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-108124808/stock-photo-red-butterfly-isolated-on-white.html?src=csl_recent_image-13">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_4"><h2>Cherry Flip</h2>You might say "pop your cheery" in reference to losing your virginity, but for oral sex, you would say "cherry flip." Who knew cherries could have so many meanings?<p></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-113597266/stock-photo-sweet-ripe-cherry-with-leaf.html?src=csl_recent_image-9">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_5"><h2>Chickenhead</h2>Okay, this doesn't refer to cunnilingus - it refers to giving a guy oral sex. Think about how a chicken moves it's head. Get it now?<P></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-99158564/stock-photo-white-chicken-isolated-studio-shot.html?src=csl_recent_image-4">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_6"><h2>Digging For Clams</h2>Honestly, I hate when people call a vagina a clam. For some reason, it grosses me out. But if you're into it, here's this nickname!<p></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-77196958/stock-photo-clams-on-white-background.html?src=csl_recent_image-8">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_7"><h2>Egg McMuff</h2>What a dirty little play on the oh-so-popular Egg McMuffin. You'll never look at this breakfast sandwich the same way again.<p></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-123983194/stock-photo-english-muffin-with-bacon-egg-cheese-on-a-white-background.html?src=csl_recent_image-2">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_8"><h2>Have A Furburger</h2>Am I the only one who thinks of a moldy burger when they hear this phrase? I can't be, right?<P></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-93385357/stock-photo-blue-toy.html?src=csl_recent_image-15">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_9"><h2>Gorilla In The Washing Machine</h2>Okay, this one just sounds horribly violent. Stop that!<p></p> <a
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id="description_10"><h2>Eating From The Honey Pot</h2>Aw. Whoever made this one up must be trying to say that a vagina is pretty sweet to eat.<P></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-80350348/stock-photo-honey-jar-with-honeycomb-lid-and-wooden-dipper.html?src=csl_recent_image-7">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_11"><h2>Eat A Peach</h2>And the food references continue. Do you think I could write a list of slang words for oral sex and NOT include at least one peach one?<p></p> <a
href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-115590298/stock-photo-ripe-peach-fruit-isolated-on-white-background-cutout.html?src=csl_recent_image-16">Source: ShutterStock</a></span><span
id="description_12"><h2>Ready Brek</h2>I couldn't even think of a picture to use with this because I don't understand what this means. But according to <a
href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ready%20brek">Urban Dictionary</a>, it means the way a vagina tastes. Okay...<p></p> <a
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id="description_13"><h2>Playing In The Sandbox</h2>Um, ouch. This one sounds painful.<p></p> <a
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id="description_14"><h2>Cunning Linguist</h2>Cunnilingus. Cunning Linguist. GET IT?!<P></p> <a
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href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-118851976/stock-photo-young-women-looking-up-a-word-in-the-dictionary.html">Source: Shutterstock</a></p></div>It&#8217;s time for another <strong>define-a-word</strong>! That sounds like a good <strong>game show</strong>, no? Also, I can&#8217;t seem to stop rhyming.</p><p>Anyway&#8230;</p><p><strong>Wonky</strong> has come up as a recently <strong>popular</strong> word, but it&#8217;s always been one of my <strong>favorites</strong>. But whenever I would say it in the past my friends were always like, &#8220;HUH?&#8221; So I guess I <strong>went hipster</strong> with this and used it before it was cool.</p><p><strong>So what is wonky?</strong></p><p><a
href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wonky?s=t">Dictionary.com</a> defines it as:<br
/> &nbsp;</p><p><strong>Adjective</strong><br
/> <em>1. British Slang.<br
/> a. shaky, groggy, or unsteady.<br
/> b. unreliable; not trustworthy.<br
/> 2. Slang. stupid; boring; unattractive.</em></p><p>Sounds about right.</p><p>Wonky has apparently<strong> taken on</strong> the<strong> &#8220;unreliable&#8221;</strong> meaning but applied it to <strong>things</strong> instead of <strong>people</strong>. So when your <strong>internet</strong> goes out, it&#8217;s being wonky. When your<strong> printer</strong> stops working, it&#8217;s being wonky. It can also be used to describe <strong>smells</strong> or tastes. As in the guy next to me on the subway this morning smelt wonky.</p><p>The <strong>ever-helpful</strong> <a
href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wonky">Urban Dictionary</a> proves it:</p><p><em>&#8220;Weird, <strong>whacked out</strong>, messed up, <strong>not working</strong> for no definable reason. Usually applied to technology.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Crazy, loony, <strong>not quite right</strong>, out of sorts. A mix of bonkers and wacky.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Askew, non-intuitive, poorly designed, or <strong>not functioning as it should</strong>.&#8221;</em></p><p>Wonky also takes on the <strong>&#8220;groggy&#8221;</strong> meaning when used to <a
href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wonky&#038;page=2">describe someone who has taken <strong>ketamine</strong></a>, a form of anesthesia.</p><p><strong>Personally</strong>, I like to use wonky to <strong>describe technology</strong> because it just kind of<strong> fits</strong>. So when my iPhone decides to get a <strong>mind</strong> of its own and <strong>turn on and off</strong> by itself, <strong>it&#8217;s being wonky.</strong> It&#8217;s just a <strong>good word</strong> to use when something isn&#8217;t working quite right.</p><p><strong>Have you used wonky? Did you just start using it recently? Will you use it now? <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.gurl.com/?p=100325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Some new words have been popping up on my radar lately. Our generation is always updating words or creating new ones. Sometimes they even become officially recognized words by the dictionary! GIF was 2012&#8242;s word of the year! Well, I&#8217;ve been hearing &#8220;ratchet&#8221; a lot lately. I&#8217;ve heard everything from &#8220;My hair looks so ratchet&#8221; &#8230; <a
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href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-118851976/stock-photo-young-women-looking-up-a-word-in-the-dictionary.html">Source: Shutterstock</a></p></div>Some <strong>new words</strong> have been popping up on my <strong>radar</strong> lately. Our generation is always updating words or creating <strong>new ones</strong>. Sometimes they even become <strong>officially recognized</strong> words by the dictionary! <a
href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gif-named-word-year-article-1.1201544"><strong>GIF</strong> was 2012&#8242;s word of the year!</a></p><p>Well, I&#8217;ve been hearing <strong>&#8220;ratchet&#8221;</strong> a lot lately. I&#8217;ve heard everything from &#8220;My hair looks so ratchet&#8221; to &#8220;This pasta is just plain ratchet&#8221; so even I&#8217;m <strong>confused</strong> as to which way we&#8217;re supposed to be using it!</p><p>This week let&#8217;s <strong>define ratchet</strong> and look at the evolution of the word.</p><p><a
href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ratchet">Merriam-Webster</a> defines it as:<br
/> <strong>1. Noun</strong><br
/> <em>- a mechanism that consists of a bar or wheel having inclined teeth into which a pawl drops so that motion can be imparted to the wheel or bar, governed, or prevented and that is used in a hand tool (as a <strong>wrench </strong>or screwdriver) to allow effective motion in one direction only</em></p><p>Basically, a ratchet is a <strong>socket wrench</strong>. So how did we get from socket wrench to <strong>&#8220;She&#8217;s so ratchet&#8221;</strong>? Obviously you&#8217;re not saying <strong>&#8220;She&#8217;s so socket wrench&#8221;</strong> because what does that even mean?</p><p>Of course, I went to the upstanding <strong><a
href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ratchet">Urban Dictionary</a></strong> for some input. Here are my favorites definitions:</p><p>&#8220;A <strong>diva</strong>, mostly from urban cities and ghettos, that <strong>has reason</strong> to believe she is <strong>every man&#8217;s eye candy</strong>. Unfortunately, she&#8217;s <strong>wrong</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The term &#8216;ratchet&#8217; has no less than two distinct meanings. As an <strong>adjective</strong>, it describes a person, usually a woman, or activity, who is <strong>out of hand</strong>, out of control, generally <strong>whack</strong> in some way. As a verb, or a direct object (&#8220;do tha ratchet, yeah, do tha ratchet&#8230;&#8221;), the term serves to identify or describe the <strong>dance craze</strong>&#8211;and the movements associated herewith&#8211; of the Ratchet.&#8221; <em>(I know the Harlem Shake, I do not know the Ratchet.)</em></p><p>&#8220;To act in a <strong>dysfunctional</strong> or out-of-pocket manner; unruly; 2: Someone whose actions could be considered as severely indistinguishable; possessing little or <strong>no class</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>As a writer, I&#8217;m <strong>required</strong> to have knowledge of <strong>all words</strong> and their origins. I&#8217;m essentially the<strong> Bill Nye</strong> of words.</p><p>If I <strong>understand</strong> correctly, <strong>ratchet</strong> means <strong>wrench</strong>. I believe somewhere along the line, wrench was accidentally pronounced as <strong>wretched</strong>. <a
href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wretched">Wretched</a> means to appear <strong>miserable</strong>, mean or <strong>dejected</strong>. Wretched was <strong>pronounced</strong> instead as ratchet where it suddenly took on the <strong>connotation</strong> it has now. This is <strong>word science</strong>, people!</p><p>You can use ratchet to describe anything that&#8217;s <strong>messy</strong>, sloppy or<strong> rude</strong>. People can be ratchet, your room can be ratchet, your outfit can be ratchet.</p><p><strong>Did you know what ratchet meant? How do you use it? What words would you like us to explain next? <a
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class="wp-caption-text">&quot;Everybody totes copies our amazeballs words.&quot; | Source: Tumblr</p></div>It’s said that <strong>William Shakespeare</strong> coined over 1,500 words in his plays and sonnets, and in the past 500 years, no other person has come even close to adding <strong>that many words</strong> to the dictionary.</p><p>But Shakespeare <strong>better watch out</strong>, because in 2012, an entire generation of girls seems to be gunning after his word coinage record.</p><p>According to a <strong>recent article</strong> in the <em><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/science/young-women-often-trendsetters-in-vocal-patterns.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">New York Times</a></em>, when it comes to coining new turns of phrase, <strong>teenage girls</strong> and young women (like you, duh!) are leading the pack. Okay, so we’re not quite at 1,500, but with the prevalence of a universal pop culture and a faster-than-ever exchange of ideas over the internet, girls are adding words to the dictionary&#8211;and changing the ways even <strong>people in power</strong> speak&#8211;at an impressive rate.</p><p><strong>In honor</strong> of this ongoing achievement, here are five of our favorite bits of <strong>girl slang</strong>. The next time your mom tells you to &#8220;speak English,&#8221; <strong>send her</strong> this link!</p><p><strong>Totes </strong>(adj.)—Short for “totally,” implies “duh!”<br
/> <strong>Example</strong>: “ I am totes going to The Hunger Games opening night. What, you thought I wasn&#8217;t?”</p><p><strong>Cray-Cray</strong> (adj.)—More than crazy, especially popular among fashion girls<br
/> <strong>Example</strong>: “Did you see that new Ke$ha video where she has snails crawling on her face? Girl has gone cray-cray.”</p><p><strong>Amazeballs </strong>(adj.)&#8211;Out of this world, blow your face off fantastic<br
/> <strong>Example</strong>: &#8220;Um, did you <em>try </em>this cookie dough? It&#8217;s amazeballs.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Asshat </strong>(noun)&#8211;Someone who has made so much more than an ass of themselves, it&#8217;s as if they&#8217;re wearing their assery as a hat.<br
/> <strong>Example</strong>: &#8220;Did you hear about Joe? Jennifer turned him down and now he&#8217;s talking trash about her for no reason. What an asshat.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Forevs </strong>(noun): A very long time that seems like eternity, short for forever. Also used when referring to the store Forever 21 as simply, &#8220;Forevs.&#8221;<br
/> <strong>Example</strong>: &#8220;We were going to get fro-yo, but the line was like, forevs. Not worth it.&#8221;</p><p><strong>What words are you and your friends saying all the time now? Tell us in the <a
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