Country Dictionary

A fork of Rural Dictionary

IALTO

I Am Like That Only

Ramesh was always pulling a fast one on his friends. He explained by saying "IALTO".

by Arunabh Das April 22, 2004

webchroming

Adding "bling" including slick-looking UI elements, fancy-shmancy AJAX and web 2.0 interactivity to websites and web-applications and "pimp" your "web-crib".

By the time I'm done webchroming this site, it will be web3.0.

by Arunabh Das February 19, 2009

the celery dances at midnight

redundant answer to an obfuscated question

"What's the meaning of it all?"

"Does the celery not dance at midnight?"

by Arunabh Das March 06, 2005

afpak

The Afghanistan-Pakistan problem. This is term used by the U.S. to refer to the war-on-terror in Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. The general consensus amongst political pundits is that there is not a separate strategy that needs to be followed for dealing with Pakistan and for dealing with terrorism in Afghanistan but that there must be a unified approach known as the Afpak Approach.

Hillary Clinton is going to take care of Afpak fo shizzle.

by Arunabh Das January 25, 2009

gigonomics

Refers to an economy where no one has a "real" job. Everyone has "gigs", i.e. short-term contracts for doing things with no benefits or pension plans.

Tina Brown refers to the economics of the new economy as gigonomics in her column on The Daily Beast.

by Arunabh Das January 25, 2009

americana

the culture of the USA

americana is also an album by Offspring

by Arunabh Das March 08, 2004

ficus

A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.

A small piece of tobacco. U.S.

I'll clean the ficus from the roof.

by Arunabh Das March 13, 2005