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Non-Analytical Positive adj. Coined by the US Anti-Doping Agency as a euphemism for guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs based solely on circumstantial evidence. (Usage: “He won’t submit to our voluntary drug testing? Then he must be non-analytical positive.”)Dirt-Style adj. Having hip graphic design that remixes stodgy, amateurish Web content for ironic aesthetic ends. Think: the […]

Non-Analytical Positive
adj. Coined by the US Anti-Doping Agency as a euphemism for guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs based solely on circumstantial evidence. (Usage: "He won't submit to our voluntary drug testing? Then he must be non-analytical positive.")

Dirt-Style
adj. Having hip graphic design that remixes stodgy, amateurish Web content for ironic aesthetic ends. Think: the visual equivalent of a mash-up.

Toyetic
adj. Suitable for merchandising. Describes a media property, like a movie, that's easily exploited for selling other products, such as a McDonald's Happy Meal. (Usage: "Say what you will about cinematography, Star Wars: Episode I is more toyetic than My Dinner With Andre.")

Meat Puppet
n. An online identity created solely to stuff a wiki or usenet ballot box. The term is an extension of sock puppet, a pseudonym created by a usenet member to second one's own opinion.

- Jonathon Keats (jargon@wiredmag.com)

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