It refers to the imagined belief that the automobile is powered by small rodents running

furiously on exercise wheels who are accessible through the portal in front of the passengers seat.

Example: Darling, can you reach into the hamster cage and grab my toothbrush?

@hamsteriac:= Hamster maniac--someone with an inordinate interest in hamsters.

Example: The hamsteriac couldn't resist and ended up buying a dozen more hamsters. Now he has about 300.

@han:= Used when someone has gone off by herself, either a loner or she just likes going solo--like Han Solo.

Example: I went into town han yesterday. It was pretty boring.

@hand me up:= Passing on of used clothing items in an upward fashion as from son to father

Example: I refuse to wear this hand me up.

@hand printing:= When writing, unconsiously flipping between printing and cursive handwriting, often in the middle of a word.

Example: How can you read this?? What is it, hand printing?

@hand salsa:= Sweat on mice and joysticks, produced by gaming.

Example: Ugh, he got hand salsa all over my mouse from too much Quakeing.

@Hand:= Used to describe the lower peninsula of Michigan. Often while using one's right hand to demonstrate.

Example: Mt. Pleasent is right in the middle of the hand.

@handbag:= Very effeminate man.

Example: A. Do you think Chris is gay?

B. Are you kidding? He's definitely a handbag.

@handicrapped:= (adj) For the only empty slot in the entire parking lot, reserved for the handicapped.

Example: Look, there's an open space.... Arggh, it's handicrapped!

@handleable:= Easily able to handle, deal with.

Example: This extreme situation is handleable. So it makes me wonder why we call it extreme.

@handmelon:= Proper word for American football, as it is played more with hands than feet and the ball is melon-shaped, instead of being of proper spherical shape balls should be.

Example: Handmelon is a sport popular only in the United States.

@handy:= Used in Germany for cell phone. Many people think this is the English word for the German word.

Example: Can you give me your handy number? I've got a handy.

@hangabur:= My two-year-old's version of hamburger.

Example: He is now 24 and we still have hangaburs and fries.

@hangicher:= Lincolnshire dialect for handkerchief.

Example: Ya want ta git that hangicher weshed one on these days--it's fair lost wi' muck.

@hangry:= The state of anger and blind frustration experienced during prolonged periods of hunger.

Example: Don't get too close to Jason, he hasn't eaten and is very hangry.

@hanna:= hanna(hayna) alternative word for yes

Example: that was really stupid! hanna or no?

@Hannamas:= Hannukah and Christmas.

Example: My wife (non-Jewish) and I (Jewish) celebrate Hannamas during the December holiday season.

@hanyak:= Refers to people who do not use common sense, are insensitive to others and their environment, and are generally just stupid about what they're doing and their impact on others

Example: Did you see that hanyak cut across three lanes to make the light? OR

That hanyak just butt way in front of the line we're in.

@Haphrotrapic:= Spreading; expanding; diffusing.

Example: James' breath was haphrotrapic in the cold air.

@happening:= To describe something very favorably.

Example: Oh, yeah! That party was happening.

@happy bunny:= Mostly used in the negative, is used to describe a contented person. UK slang, origin unknown.

Example: He wasn't a very happy bunny when he lost his job.

@Happy place:= A place one travels to mentally to escape, where time does not exist, where one goes when spaced out.

Example: Sorry, what were you talking about? I was in my happy place.

@har'ye:= How are you--as used by the original citizens of London to confuse non-English tourists.

Example: Londoner: Har'ye? Tourist: Sorry? Londoner: Har'ye? Tourist: Sorry? Londoner: Har'ye? (and so on)

@harangle:= To annoy someone excessively; also to experience anywhere from minor to excessive annoyance at the hands of an exasperating idiot or irksome situation (to be harangled); a term meaning annoyance or personal harassment (haranglement)

Example: The first period student harangled the substitute teacher by saying This is just a blowoff class. What the student failed to recognise was that the substitute teacher viewed his job as substitue TEACHING, not being the substitute butt of students' jokes.

@harbinder:= 1. A player who bends the bars on a foosball table. 2. An individual who unsuccessfully uses powder or scent to mask bodily odor.

Example: 1. Knock it off, harbinder -you're going to break the table. 2. That harbinder smells terrible.

@harborne:= Depressed, in a state of mourning after having been dumped by a girlfriend for someone else.

Example: He was harborne after being dumped by Tiffany.

@Hardcore:= adj. 1. Used to describe anything thats cool or liable to hurt you 2. Used to describe a person that is into something more than everyone else, usually in a tough sense 3. Referring to music of the 'hardcore' genre, like AFI or Grade (an offshoot of punk-- more musically inclined, emotional and scarier)

Example: 1. Wow, thats hardcore! 2. Mohawk, bondage straps . . . he's hardcore. 3. I saw this new hardcore band and got flattened in the pit.

@hardcore:= Used to describe someone as being part of a notorious group of friends.

Example: Q: Who's that?

A: It's OK, that's Jim. He's hardcore.

@hardening:= Used to describe the resulting condition of a worker when his boss gives him to much work to do.

The body just stiffens into a rigor mortis state and the worker becomes unable to function.

From a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams

Example: B. Isok, I have another project for you.

(Isok then stiffens like a board, arms spread wide.)

B. Isok, are you hardening?

@hardge:= Bigger than large or huge.

Example: It was a hardge lake.

@hardrock ball:= What we called a baseball when growing up in the 1960s south.

Example: Hey, let's go catch some hardrock.

@Hardschool:= Combination of oldschool and hardcore. Especially used to describe games or friends.

Example: These video games are hardschool.

@harrised:= To be completed and utterly messed up by stupidity or incompetence.

Example: Whats wrong with this server? Its been harrised.

@Harry Mason:= Taken from the video game Silent Hill.

Describes someone who rushes into an activity without pausing to consider any potential risks or dangers involved.

Example: The guy that jumped off the roof into the pool last night was a total Harry Mason!

@Harrypotteresque:= This is an obviosuly wide meaning word

(can be applied to childish or adult stuff, real or imaginary things),

but it should generally have a magical sense, I think.

Example: She gave a harrypotteresque performance;

she cooked a harrypotteresque meal;

we spent a harrypotteresque holiday, night, time, etc.

@harsh:= Extrememly cool

Example: That movie was harsh.

@Hartlefy:= To execute an animal in the mistaken belief that it is a foreign spy.

Example: What! They Hartlefied all the monkeys?

@Hartlepolarise:= To render something a farce. Comes from Hartlepool, England, where the people once mistook a monkey for a Frenchman.

Example: Don't bring John, he'll Hartlepolarise the whole trip.

@harumpf:= A sign of disgust or impatience

Example: When waiting for a download or for voicemail to go through its eternal loop, a sigh could be seen as a harumpf.

@Harvey:= A personification of harmony (attributed to The Mamas & The Papas.);

a condition of happiness in feeling or action; pleasant to the eye or atmosphere; cool.

Example: N. Once the Mamas & Papas got their singing harmonies right, Harvey had arrived.

Adj. This restaurant is harvey.

Adj. That's a harvey blouse.

@Hasselfactor:= 1. Allowance made in any form of planning for the unexpected appearance of

either David Hasselhof or one of his media products, be it some cheesy TV show

about half-naked people or dreadful music.