Pastimes & Hobbies Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Pastimes & Hobbies

Hobbies, pastimes, diversions, amusements, fans, amateurs, sidelines, moonlighting, leisure activities, avocations, etc. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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faithbooking n. An award-winning journalist and avid scrapbooker based in New Jersey, Sheridan said the writing is just as important as the pictures in “faithbooking,” as spiritual scrapbooking is sometimes called. [English Pastimes & Hobbies Religion] [full cite] (Jun. 4, 2007)

fat quarter n. Fat quarters are fabric remnants cut into 18- by 22-inch rectangles, and are used to make a variety of quilt pieces. [English Pastimes & Hobbies] [full cite] (Oct. 9, 2006)

flap n. His face lit up when he talked about a “flap,” a term used to describe a large number of UFO reports, one March sometime in the late 1990s. [English Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 8, 2007)

flash n. Edward Jackman won the first IJA numbers competition in 1979—a challenge to see who can juggle the most objects longest—by juggling seven rings for six seconds. Today, the seven-ring record is 15 minutes, and jugglers have “qualified” 10 objects (to “qualify” means to go through the pattern twice, which would be 20 catches for ten objects) and “flashed” 13 (a “flash” is once through the pattern, which would be 13 catches for 13 objects). [English Pastimes & Hobbies Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 26, 2007)

flash v. These are the Seventh Annual New Hampshire State Armwrestling Championships…With John Pickering, in the parlance of the armwrestler, I got “flashed.” He went through me like he was shifting gears in his truck. [English Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 18, 2007)

Floridana n. Old postcards are one facet of what some collectors call kitsch and others prefer to call “Floridana”—a broader term that extends beyond the simply silly and encompasses a vast body of memorabilia with one thing in common: They must date before the opening of Walt Disney World in 1971. [Florida English Pastimes & Hobbies] [full cite] (Dec. 28, 2007)

foamer n. During a breakfast meeting with local leaders at the Muddy Waters Café, Peg Churchill told Clinton that canal enthusiasts sometimes call themselves “canal foamers.” That was news to Clinton, who predicted canal development will be successful and latched onto the term. [English Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 3, 2006)

foamer n. A self-proclaimed “subway foamer,” or buff, Mr. Jabbour has a passion for transit-related subjects like infrastructure, routes and track design. [English Automobiles & Transportation Pastimes & Hobbies] [full cite] (Apr. 22, 2007)

food fighter n. Sone is the newest celebrity sensation among Japan’s long line of champion competitive eaters—or “food fighters,” as the entertainment industry calls them—and a rising star on YouTube. [English Food & Drink Pastimes & Hobbies] [full cite] (Feb. 8, 2007)

gamer regret n. The dirty secret of gamers is that we wrestle with this dilemma all the time. We’re often gripped by what I call “gamer regret”—a sudden, horrifying sense of emptiness when we muse on all the other things we could have done with our game time. [English Entertainment Pastimes & Hobbies Technology] [full cite] (Sep. 10, 2007)

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