Here's some new, world class terms and phrases you can add to your
vocabulary if you want to be on the bleeding edge of SV jargon...
or have to try to understand someone who is.
     

       "batmobiling"
       Putting up emotional shields.
       From the retracting armor that covers the batmobile.
       As in, "She started talking marriage and he started batmobiling"

       "beepilepsy"
       Afflicts those with vibrating pagers. Characterized by sudden
       spasms, goofy facial expressions and loss of speech.

       "betamaxed"
       When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior, but
       better marketed competition.
       As in, "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market.

       "blowing your buffer"
       Losing your train of thought.

       "Elvis year"
       The peak year of popularity.
       As in, 1993 was Barney the Dinosaur's Elvis year."

       "going postal"
       Totally stressed out and losing it, like postal employees who
       went on shooting rampages.

       "irritainment"
       Something that's annoying, but you can't stop watching. For
       example, the O.J. trial.

       "prairie dogging"
       In companies where everyone has a cubicle, something happens
       and everyone pops up to look.

       "salmon day"
       Swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end.

       "umfriend"
       A sexual relationship between two people. As in, "This is
       Dale, my ... um... friend."

       "yuppie food stamps"
       Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.

       "yuppie shopping cart"
       Jeep Grand Cherokee

       "yuppie shopping cart extraordinaire"
       Lexus LS 450