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...implicated MIT fraternity did not come forward and take blame or credit for the balloon until later in the week. Although the responsibility was originally secret, says frat Vice President Victor J. Cook III. "They felt good about it and wanted to tell people, so they...
...Hanoverian, football is more than just a game, it's a struggle for attention. That's why Dartmouth freshmen wear those ugly green shirts with their year on the back, build gigantic bonfires, dance around the other team's band and sing ridiculous songs. That's why Dartmouth frat boys get a kick out of spilling green paint on the John Harvard statue. That's why Dartmouth's president just happens to be a record-holding football player...
...been a mildly successful novel (1968) by Richard Hooker and a surprise hit movie (1970) directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr. Most of the TV show's major characters were sketched in by the movie, but the tone was '50s frat house, and the emphasis was on the safety-valve sexual high jinks that the heroes perpetrated on some of their uptight colleagues. These droll humiliations would have been too raunchy for TV and too alienating for audiences in search of a weekly identification figure. Enter Alan Alda, who was starring in films...
...frat-house leer is evident in today's collegiate slang. To get naked means to have a good time, whether or not sex is involved. (That is a new shortened form of the get-drunk-and-get-naked party, which collegians fantasized about 20 years ago.) At Michigan State University, one who is vomiting is driving the bus, a reference to the toilet seat and the wretch's need to hang on to it. Sckacks means ugly. A two-bagger is a girl who requires exactly that to cover her ugliness. Young women, of course, retaliate. At breakfast...
...infield is for men. Black-leathered motorcycle riders, general hell raisers and frat boys down for a look at the fun all stake out their separate claim Turn One is the "Snake Pit," the motorcycle mecca, Harley Heaven. The bikers get drunk, get crazy, get naked, get sick, and get beat up for the amusement of corporate executives sitting in the luxury $30.000 boxes across the track. Turns Two and Three are slightly less populated but boast a steady level of determined merrymaking...