“She had man-hands,” Jerry says of Gillian, “Like a creature out of Greek Mythology.part woman, part horrible beast.” Man-hands are hands that look disproportionately strong and beefy on a woman. Doing so adds a little bacteria to the dip but not as much as plunging your kisser in the bowl. It could refer to something “coated twice,” like the double-dip matches manufactured in 1907 or, starting the 1940s, it could allude to the practice of holding a second job while receiving a pension from a prior one.Ī June 2015 addition to the OED is double-dip recession, a recession in which a period of decline is followed by a short period of growth followed by another decline.Īs for whether or not double-dipping a chip really is like “putting your whole mouth right in the dip," the answer is no. The term double dip has been around since the early 1900s but with different meanings. Oh George, you of shirtless BMs and eating out of the trash, it's no surprise you think double-dipping a chip is perfectly fine. In the 1940s it came to mean to give an unwanted gift to someone. The word regift is much older, originating in the early 19th century to refer to giving an additional gift.
This Seinfeld-coined word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2009 as a derivative of regift. The label-maker Jerry gets from Tim Whatley looks familiar to Elaine-that’s because it’s the same one she gave Tim. While sometimes, such as on a crowded subway, there’s no way to avoid this invasion, a close talker might make such situations even creepier. Instead of staying in the much more comfortable friend-, acquaintance-, and stranger-zones, they impinge upon your intimate space. The close talker joins a litany of annoying speaking styles (see low talker and high talker) by getting way too close and personal.Ĭlose talkers lack awareness about personal space. Here are 15 more magnificent terms coined by Jerry and company.
( B.B.O.), to the sneak who takes undeserved credit (the sidler), to various relationship maneuvers (the leave-behind, the preemptive breakup, sexual perjury). The show about nothing had a name for everything-from really bad B.O. slot that night, behind Part Two of ABC’s hit miniseries “The Jacksons: An American Dream” (38.3 million) and a two-hour episode of CBS crime drama “In the Heat of the Night” (18.6 million).Jerry and the gang hated a lot of things: the dreaded pop-in, incessantly barking dogs, and, of course, Newman. participating in fitness class.Īn average of 18.5 million viewers tuned in to its original telecast, ranking third for its 9 p.m. Throughout the episode, various temptations try to derail the four such as a naked woman in the apartment across the street from Jerry’s place, a nurse bathing a beautiful female patient at a hospital, and the late John F. To make matters interesting, the four decide to wager money to test each other’s will to not do “that” the longest.
They scoffed at the thought, disbelieving his promise. Upon retelling his story at the diner, George vowed to Jerry Seinfeld, Kramer ( Michael Richards) and Elaine ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to never do “that” again. She falls in shock and is sent to the hospital. Written by “Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David, George Costanza ( Jason Alexander) gets caught by his mother not being “master of his own domain” to Glamour magazine. 1 favorite episode of the classic sitcom “ Seinfeld“, “ The Contest” debuted on Wednesday, Nov. To sign up for our daily email newsletter, CLICK HEREįollow Follow regarded by most fans as their No.
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