balloon juice
nounEtymology
Extended from synonymous hot air, gas. Attested in both senses from the 19th century.
Definitions
Empty or exaggerated talk lacking in substance, boasting, chatter, nonsense.
- The senate was inflated with a superior grade of wind, oratory, and balloon juice yesterday. This unusual condition was brought about by heated discussion of the Coulson-Gandy contest case.
- All this underscores that the hyperactive posturing from Bryan and others on the dump is so much balloon juice. They’ll say anything to hoodwink voters into believing the dump isn’t inevitable, when all signs point otherwise.
- Iacocca’s book is filled with managerial balloon juice. “The only way you can motivate people is to communicate with them.” […] He exhibits general ignorance of business fundamentals.
Any of various beverages, usually including gas dissolved in liquid.
- Imbibe Balloon juice! hoist up your courage mountain high! Drink!
- balloon juice lowerer a total abstainer from liquor LIT: a soda water drinker
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for balloon juice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA