We all know that Hopkins is a, um, special place. For that reason we often need redefine everyday language to fit our needs. In rare cases, our social scene is odd enough we create new terms that explain situations that other schools and responsible adults don't have to deal with. Here is a summary of some of the neologisms our creative student body has come up with.
Blue bawls (n.): 1. When you flirt with someone who you know is not romantically available, which leaves you feeling sad and, if drunk, crying. 2. The flirting with someone you are attracted to while you are already dating someone else.
Often occurs at bars and during spring break or while significant other is not around, and not available for a booty call.
Brown-out (n.): A state between drunk and black-out where although you remember most key moments of the night, you are unable to remember how those memories are connected.
Ex.: You know you were flirting with someone at a bar and your next memory is making out and you have no idea how you got from point A to point B.
Drimming (v.): Drunk instant messaging
1. Often occurs after you leave the bar without the person you intended to leave with;
2. Messages are often close to incomprehensible due to typos;
3. The person drimming generally believes that the messages he or she is typing are some of their best game of the night, only to find out otherwise the next morning.
Inebridate (v.): To have regular drunken hook-ups with one person; it's not random at this point but the idea of going out with them sober makes you nervous.
Fear Goggles (n.): More intense than the well-known beer goggles. The complete panic and lowering of standards as you are one of the last people to leave (or be pushed out of) PJs and you want someone to go home with.
H-bomb (n.): Once reserved only for Harvard students, the H-bomb refers to telling someone you go to Johns Hopkins.
1. Girls: she knows to wait for the look of fear and disappointment on the other persons face after disclosing her school.
a. Ex: On spring break, meeting three guys who seem proud to play lacrosse for a southern school and two are engineers, and then they ask the girls what school they go to. The girls reply Hopkins. The conversation suddenly ends.
2. Guys: waits for a girl to ask if he's going to be a doctor and tries to introduce him to her mother.
Lacrossestitute (n.): girls/guys who only party with lacrosse players and believe the Lax teams are the only socially adept people worthy of their attention.
1. Often this group believes they are socially superior to the general Hopkins population.
2. Often this group of people is mocked and used for the general population's amusement.
Locationship (n.): Dating or regularly hooking-up with someone (see inebridate) based essentially because they live close to you.
1. This behavior is often seen in the AMRs and other dorms.
2. Becomes difficult once you have hooked-up with a large number of people on your floor.
Lush Flush (n.): The happy red glow people get when they drink a but too much.
1. Often called the Asian Flush at Hopkins.
Meet the Team (v.): It is in reference to the former organization of the Hopkins Sports Web site where one could click on "Meet the Team" to look at the roster and images of all the players.
1. This type of looking up information has slowly been replaced by Facebook.
2. This form of information gathering is still resorted to when someone annoyingly chooses to put an image that is not themselves on their Facebook profile.
Mothering (v.): 1. A girl who takes care of her boyfriend like his mother. She does his laundry; helps him with his homework; gets him home when he's trashed, etc.
2. A girl who constantly circles around her boyfriend at a party, ready to fend off other girls and make sure everyone knows they're together.
Standing Ovation (n.): A girl's worst fear of leaving a frat house in the morning and getting applauded by the brothers as she leaves.
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