Dictionary of Occupation & Industry Specific Slang Terms

[pizzaboyatdoor]

(if there is something already like this, somewhere in the hallways and cavarns of the forum; and I just can't find it; please be gentle when you tell & punish me :caning: thankie~thankie, SIR!)

Just a fun thread to share terms we have invented that are what's known in the big, bad, real job world; as: Occupation and/or Industry Specific Slang.....except it is for what WE do....crank out literary smut of one type or another.

(IE: ER doctors & nurses, calling a long break during a long shift, as being "OFF FLOOR"; Realtors using "WBFP" for woodburning fireplace; servers & pizza people referring to bad or non-tipping customers as "STIFFS"; old trolls in gay bars, tagging the latest new twink or cute preppy to wander in for their first time, as "FRESH MEAT"; etc, yadda yadda, et al, and forevermore.)

To make it work with actual examples of what I am thinking of, for us writer types that strut our stuff, here:

"QYnG"....what *I* use for "Quickie~Yank~n~Go" stories....normally just a stand-alone, single chapter, story designed and targeted for those readers that just....well.....just wanna 'Read, jerk, and go poof' without being invested any more deeply. (think glory holes or the back hallways & booths of porn stores)

"STROKOMANCE"....usually a multiple chapter, mini series, short or lengthy novella/novelette, or full blown book (and maybe even sequels); with romance AND the fan base required; hot sex and/or lovemaking in each chapter. (the Harlequinn-type stuff with much more better visuals created to 'tease UP' the reader)

"STROKODRAMA"....highly similar to the "strokomance; but with more drama than romance weaved in between the bed bouncing. (a 'DALLAS' or 'Dynasty' type of adult soap opera....except its in written form and neither Alexis, nor JR; ever got the kind of action we offer up)

"STROKOCOMEDY"....again; much like the strokomance & strokodrama; but laced heavily with wit, sarcasm, insanely hilarious sexual situations, tongue-in-cheek trash, and even blatant 'you GETTING the idea yet?' comments in the story. (think 'Three's Company' or 'The Brady Bunch'....but on Viagra!)

"POUNDING OFF" aka: "TOSSED OFF"....refers to what a writer does when they get SO possessed with being creative, that they beat the keys rapidly to cum up with a new story to submit. (slap yourself for what you FIRST thought)

"WHIPPIN' IT GOOD!"....like "pounding off"....but invested in your own plot twists and turns inside your brain so much; and having pitched the original outline long ago; and you start cranking out one chapter after another for a series. (mind was back down in that same gutter AGAIN....wasn't it?)

You guys & gals with much more success & experience than *I* do at this; please add ones YOU use and/or think should be used to explain the goofy little things we do to do the thing we love to do....or you do do and plan to do it some more....do that do it for you for a really BAD way to ask for additions to this thread???

One of the things I personally, dearly LUST for....is writer slang for novella, novelette, and just plain 'novel' even (and any and all the other novel uses of the word novel that are so damn confusing); just so I can keep them all STRAIGHT in my head! )


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[mynameisben]

Dramadary - A drama story which contains only one, big hump scene.

 

[oggbashan]

Pot-Boiler - novel written in a hurry to capitalize on the success of the last novel, or to meet publisher's demands, or to pay an unexpected bill.

Slime-back - book bound in fake plastic leather that will stick to the next book in any humid environment.

Remainder - novel (or any book) printed in too large a quantity that is sold off to remainder dealers for a few cents/pence a copy.

Stripped - paperback with covers removed that should have been pulped. Sold illegally.

Penny Dreadful - 1890s-1914 - Poorly written and cheaply produced paperback with sensational blurb on garishly coloured cover. Intended as disposable item to be read on a journey and thrown away. Originally priced at one penny.

Pulp fiction - 1930s-1960s - later version of Penny Dreadful. Detective stories, sexual perversion by the standards of those years e.g. Lesbian BDSM. Now collected for the cover artwork!

 

[RjThoughts]

Pot-Boiler - novel written in a hurry to capitalize on the success of the last novel, or to meet publisher's demands, or to pay an unexpected bill.

Slime-back - book bound in fake plastic leather that will stick to the next book in any humid environment.

Remainder - novel (or any book) printed in too large a quantity that is sold off to remainder dealers for a few cents/pence a copy.

Stripped - paperback with covers removed that should have been pulped. Sold illegally.

Penny Dreadful - 1890s-1914 - Poorly written and cheaply produced paperback with sensational blurb on garishly coloured cover. Intended as disposable item to be read on a journey and thrown away. Originally priced at one penny.

Pulp fiction - 1930s-1960s - later version of Penny Dreadful. Detective stories, sexual perversion by the standards of those years e.g. Lesbian BDSM. Now collected for the cover artwork!

I grew up spending rainy teenage days in a bookstore which specialized in remainders. The owner would allow some of us teens to spend hours there, under the proviso we would purchase something at sometime.

 

[mynameisben]

Twin Bag Rag - A paperback so disgustingly sexually deviant, you'll want to wear a paper bag over both your heads when jacking off to it in public.

 

[estragon]

STROKER- a story designed to encourage or enhance masturbation by the reader.

 

[pizzaboyatdoor]

As one of my characters in the big story is so fond of doing right at orgasm:

oooOOOOOHHHHHHHHwwwwhoaaWOWOW!!!

You guys are cummin' UP with some really good ones!!!

 

[oggbashan]

Dirty Book - A book that is considered offensive or too graphic for open sale. Usually kept on a high shelf in a back room or under the counter to be sold to known customers only. If almost all the stock is in this category the shop would be known as a Dirty Book Shop and normal secondhand customers would not enter. Most sales would be likely to take place after dark or in bad weather when Dirty Book Shop customers cannot be observed entering or leaving the premises. Prices do not depend on condition but on the level of obscenity or rarity of fetish/perversion.

Most Dirty Book Shops have gone out of business with the spread of the internet.

Condition of Secondhand Books:

Usually stated double. First is for the book, second for the dustwrapper e.g. Very Good/Very Good

Mint - As it came from the publisher. Never read, never opened, probably never displayed on a shelf. Abbreviation M.

Fine - Almost Mint but could have been read once, carefully. Usually not abbreviated to avoid confusion with Fair.

Very Good - A clean, undamaged but obviously secondhand copy. Abbreviation VG.

Good - Shows considerable signs of use but still sound. Faults should be stated. Abbreviation G.

Fair - Battered but complete. Should not be abbreviated. Faults should be stated.

Reading copy - All the text is there but will have significant faults such as underlining, marginal notes, loose pages. Faults should be stated as a list.

Hospital copy - only suitable to help complete a damaged copy you already own. Will have covers, pages or plates (pictures) missing.

Dog or Dog copy - worse than hospital copy. May have been chewed by dog, rats, holed by bookworms etc.

Ex-Library - Usually classed as Reading Copy. Library stamps of ownership assumed to be obvious.

Age is important.
A 16th Century book might be classed as Fine because it has survived in a remarkably clean and complete state but will have signs of age and previous owners.

Dustwrappers (DW)s are also important if they were issued with the book. The absence of a dustwrapper can drop the value by two-thirds, or more, or even make it unsaleable.

Fine DW - Absolutely clean and unmarked. Replicas are to be avoided except to make your cheap copy look better. Any reputable dealer should make a clear statement if a replica DW is used.

Very Good - Complete, unmarked DW that might show signs of age and wear. Faults should be stated e.g. chips to edges.

Price-Clipped - can apply to any state of DW. The price information has been cut off, perhaps because the book was a present, or because it was old stock sold at a higher price than that originally shown on the dustwrapper. One UK publisher in the 1970s was still selling old stock at the originally marked prices. I bought a MINT/MINT first edition of an author I was collecting at 37.5 New Pence (Was 7 shillings and 6 pence when published in 1954)

Good - Almost complete but may have small pieces missing or small tears.

Fair - Most of it present. At this state most dealers would throw the dustwrapper away.

First edition - The first publication anywhere in the world.

First US (or UK, or Aus) edition - First publication in that country. NOT a true first edition.

First thus - Not a first edition but a reprint, perhaps as a book club edition, or with revised illustrations, or with a different publisher.

First edition, first state - There are several minor variations in the first print run. For collectable authors, the true first is the first state. For example, one of Charles Dickens Christmas Books has four states. They can be told apart by a misprint on one page of the first state, and minor changes to the publisher Chapman and Hall's address on the title page.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I love your examples, pizza-- especially Strokodrama which IMO, is a completely new thing I think. I'm going to bring these elsewhere on the net.

One from fanfiction and kink writing comunities is adding an ! between the role a character is filling and their name I.E: Dom!Dean, Princess!Sam

That group has developed a lot of role designations, too--

woobie: A character written in a way that makes the reader want to comfort them when they get shit on by life or the plot-- and they do, oh how they do.

Mary Sue/Marty Stu: a writing flaw-- the character who is so implausibly perfect, so incredibly important that the entire work warps around their gravitational field-- at least, for the writer, because it's a painful experience for the reader

 

[PayDay]

This thread is win.

Many of these from the other posts are pro.
Og, A+ for those BTW.

I've used these:

cookie cutter: Fold tab A, thrust into slot B, repeat. These stories can be swapped to any category simply by changing genders or roles; also used for characters with no depth and one skill, or stereotypes: perfect bodies, million dollar houses, d-cups/10 inch wang, $150 dollar bar tabs, swimming pools, use of a couch, nerd fucks cheerleader, daddy/mommy issues, etc.

finisher: A story so good, you finish it vs. the original reason for reading. Rubbing one out at the end is optional. These stories are often worthy of finishing even if being late for an appointment is the result.

epic fail: A story that ends without sex, without warning, but was good enough to keep reading until you found that out. Often includes: "To be continued if positive feedback received."

epic win: A story so good, you had to stop and rub one out before you finished the story, and then again after you finish reading.

fucking profetic/ Stickler/ 'way to persnickety': Overly pretentious or overly artsy for the sake of being overly pretentious or overly artsy or ostentatious; "holier writer than thou" syndrome.

bastard: A story with characters from a series, not labeled as a chapter, but carries a note of "Read all of the other chapters of this series first" contained in the notes or often carries the note of "a stand-alone from other chapters" but references the other chapters continuously. Both instances assume that the reader went through all 37 other chapters via inferences such as: 'just like before' or 'as always' or 'like (insert) has always done' or etc.

foreigner: A well written story with unintelligible names and/or foreign dialect. Often UK English or Indian/Hindu names, this is based on a US location, vice versa applies to readers from other language areas. This also applies to stories within a single country, but from another region, specific locations or practices are written as assumed. 'Walk in the forest' or specific cuisine, etc.