— Wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash.
Wilbur and his merry band of capricious developers would often engage in madcap activities, such as lunch hour foosball tourneys, midnight World of Warcraft bouts, and, dare we say, hacky-sack adventure club.
— A person who shirks or neglects his or her duty.
A feral truant in his beleaguered wife’s eyes, Clem would while away his days downing successive 40oz cans of Colt 45, all the while uploading Springer-worthy videos of his muddled antics in pursuit of Internet stardom.
— The inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
A self-proclaimed tuber impresario, Henry hollowed out his mountain of starchy mash, carving a perfect bevel along the edge for ideal gravy form and flow.
— To show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
On the precipice of balance sheet stardom, Xena—warrior princess of the exciting world of cost accounting—shilly-shallied her way into career red when she vacillated on whether to post the CEO’s $35,000 tab at Strumpets & Trumpets, a local strip club, as a business expense.
— A retail shop dealing in men’s furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
Having literally given his coworker the shirt off his back after an unfortunate coffee incident and left with only an undershirt revealing an unfortunate tattoo immortalizing his love for Pomeranians, Elmer made a run to the nearest haberdashery to remedy his predicament.
— Something that holds the various elements of a complicated structure together.
The linchpin of Craig’s spaghetti code—incomprehensible to even the most unbalanced programmers and the bane of management—was rumored to be his own hyper-inflated ego.
— To prevent from happening or succeeding; ruin; wreck.
The scintillating aromatic symphony of basil and garlic wafting from his Fusilli and invigorating his senses, Carson hyperbolically declared that the wait staff scuppered his supper when they served him a 2008 Poderi Luigi Einaudi Dolcetto di Dogliani instead of a 2007. The horror, the horror.
— Of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.
Even with just one sister, Millie could only achieve a tertiary spot in the offspring pecking order. They had a dog.
— An exchange or mart.
A dandy, Bruce donned his favorite cardigan, squeezed into his smart car, and motored to Brione’s, his favorite local rialto, to secure some tofu, Brussell sprouts, and seasoned greens for his annual Embrace Your Inner Child soirée.
— To compose or write, as a poem.
As a self-proclaimed wordsmith, or as he disingenuously prefers, “a simple scribe,” Reinhardt set out to indite his fifty-second yet-to-be-read-by-another masterpiece, Living, Laughing and Loving My Way Through a Triumphant but Circuitous Path to a Harmonized Reality: A Harper’s Tale.