2. The manner in which something functions or operates.

Example: Studying mortal tenue is a growing field.

@teotwawki:= Absolute disaster--derived from The End Of The World As We Know It

Example: Every election year, candidates warn of a teotwawki if their opponents wins.

As yet, though, the world goes on.

@teow:= Sounds like meow. Crazy, eccentric, stupid.

Example: Our neighbours dog is totally teow it only goes for walks on Saturdays and refuses to go on any other day.

@tep:= telephone

Example: I am gonna call Joe on the tep.

@teretsible:= So horrible that it makes you shout swear words uncontrollably.

Example: Don't tell her that in the library. It's too teretsible; you'll get kicked out.

@terminal verbosity:= The point at which you realise that you're saying some important stuff, but also that with the next sip of your cocktail or beer, you will dissolve into incoherence.

Example: I was at the cusp of defining the eternal journalist/PR problem at Soho House last night when I realised I was about to join the drunk pile in the far corner. I was near terminal verbosity.

@termite:= Long form for a terminal loser. One who will never succeed or lead a prosperous life.

Example: Fred can't even hold down a job sorting trash at the junk yard,. If he's not a termite, I don't know who is.

@ternupsidedownigmonify:= -the bit of space where you turn upside down - by hyperspace

Example: I am going through a wormhole and bypassing the portion of space called

ternupsidedownigmonify.

@teromzar:= A situation or problem without solution or escape.

Example: His business entered in teromzar.

@terranoid:= A fear of everything on earth.

Example: It was not useful to be precise in listing her phobias as she has been terranoid since kindergarten.

@terriblendous:= A word that describes something that is both terrible and horrendous.

Example: That test was terriblendous.

@terribull:= Half terrier and half bulldog. This dog usually makes awful mistakes.

Example: My terribull knocked over a very expensive vase today.

@terrid:= terrible and horrid

Example: It was a terrid night out there, with blowing snow and wind all over

@terrortory:= A scary politician.

Example: Michael Howard, the leading terrortory, addressed the unfortunate attendees..

@tersigiveration:= The stuff that gets on your shoes whenever you go to the post office.

Example: I've had it with the ubiquitous tersigiveration of the postal kingdom. From now on, I'm going to do *all* of my mailing transactions by way of the mailbox.

@teshmelon:= The result of the first time you shampoo on your own after you get a new haircut,

and you not only lose the style, but your head looks abnormally large and rectangular

for the rest of the day.

Example: When I left the salon yesterday, my doo was stylin...but today I got the teshmelon.

@testament:= In education--a tool for the assessment of student learning that to the student feels like a test.

Example: A spring testament in reading was given to assess student progress.

@testilie:= To lie under oath during testimony, in order to make a case look stronger than it is.

Example: I'm on my way to court to go testilie.

@testosterone poisoning:= Phrase used to describe a much misunderstood, incurable, male specific behavioral malfunction

attributable to the juxtaposition of the X chromosome next to the Y chromosome.

Example: Ted's belief that if some is good, more is better was our first indication that he was suffering from testosterone poisoning.

@testosterony:= 1.) used to describe actions generally branded as macho or posessing masculine bravado. 2.) Faint smell that all men, regardless of claim, do posess. Usually only detected by women, and most easily determined by lesbians.

Example: ::Thea typing at computer:: Mike: Hey, Thea. Thea: I knew that was you walking up behind me. Mike: How? Thea: You smell all testosterony.

@tetrahedrotransmogrispinnify:= To spin round faster than the speed of light.

Example: The ball spun round really fast. I thought it would tetrahedrotransmogrispinnify.

@tetris-head:= The condition of closing your eyes and still seeing the video game you've

been playing for hours on end, usually diagnosed while trying to sleep.

Example: After staying up all night playing Asteroids, I had serious tetris-head -- every time I closed my eyes, I could still see the floating rocks.

@tetriss:= To fit items of different sizes and shapes into a finite space.

Example: Luckily, Darcy was able to tetriss the moving boxes into the elevator.

@teuro:= Pronounced toy-ro, German slang for the new European currency, the Euro. Derived from the German word teuer, meaning exepensive. It refers to the general rise in real prices that occured during the introduction of the new currency.

Example: You paid 10 teuros for that salad? That's almost 20 marks. You've been ripped off.

@Tfigel:= 1. It's cold. 2. Cold.

Example: 1. Tfigel outside. 2. It's freakin' tfigel outside!

@Thaid:= Pronounced like said with a th. Describes the act of thinking what you'd rather say in a certain situation, instead of what you obviously did say.

Example: This girl asked me if I had the time, and she was pretty hot, so I thaid, Sure, what did you have in mind?

@Thank-queue:= The repetitive thanks you must offer someone when following them down a long corridor.

Example: My mouth was dry from the thank-queue after walking through all those fire doors.

@thank-yo:= A form of thanks when recieving a completely innapropriate present from a younger relative

Example: Thank-yo for my skateboard, I wonder if it will take the weight of my Zimmer frame?

@thank the process:= (of evolution.) Thank God. Of evolution is optional.

Example: Thank the process for gummy worms.

@Thanka-vue:= The feeling you've already thanked someone.

Example: Have I said thanks for the flowers or is it just thanka-vue?

@thankles:= A condition where a person's calves are the same width as her ankles. Also see Cankles.

Example: Check out the legs on that girl. She's got some serious thankles.

@thanx:= A short form of thank you, usually found in notes.

Example: Please don't throw butts or gum into the urinals. Thanx

or

Please keep this door closed for Health and Safety reasons.

Thanx

@tharn:= Stupefied, distraught, hypnotized with fear, such as a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming car.

From the book _Watership Down_ by Richard Adams.

Example: When my mother opened the door, I went tharn in fear.

@thas:= Further shortening of that's.

Example: Thas a great idea,

@that's the blow:= That sucks.

Example: I have to read 8 million pages by tomorrow!

That's the blow.

@that dog'll hunt:= A commonly used redneck expression to inform other rednecks that something is acceptable or will work.

Example: Billy Bob asked Jethro what he thought of his new girlfriend, to which Jethro responded, That dog'll hunt.

@the *noun* fairy:= Mythical being that is responsible for the delivery of an object which is obviously too ludicrous to have been delivered by said being. In reference to the tooth fairy.

Example: I was a good little girl and the piano fairy brought me a brand new Steinway.

@the *noun* gnomes:= Mythical beings responsible for the malfunction or disappearance of the object mentioned.

Example: A. My computer keeps giving me a blue screen.

B. The computer gnomes must be chewing on your cables.

@the American Embassy:= The most prevalent US export to the United Kingdom: McDonalds.

Example: And over here, we pass Taunton's very own American Embassy.