Dave's Slang
- MTSCNA
- Acronym for "Modified, Transmogrified, Special Circumstance Non-GAAP/Ex-Item Accounting". Surely you jest! Yep.
- Big Wednesday
- Old surf movie which we sometimes use when Wednesday gets rocky.
- Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you
- Bulls lament or excuse when things don't go their way.
- PPT
- Plunge Protection Team [dba, The President's Working Group on Financial Markets] which many suspect of direct stock market manipulation. That has never been proven.
- Da Boyz
- Wall Street trading desks, well-heeled hedge funds and as some would argue, the PPT [Plunge Protection Team].
- TWNO
- The week's not over.
- Window Shopping for Tourists
- Dow Jones Industrial Average is what most people watch which can be misleading.
- Stick Save
- investors, usually bullish, who prevent a market from falling below support as a hockey goalie would prevent the puck from the goal net.
- Chucky
- the US consumer who, like the little monster from the horror film series, you can't kill or in this case stop from shopping.
Hawaiian Pidgin Slang
- Auwe
- [au-Weh!] oh dear.
- Akamai
- [Ah-kah-my] good insight, experienced and smart.
- Brah
- [Bra] or Braddah [Brah-dah] friend or buddy.
- Chance um
- go for it like a wave when surfing.
- Chicken Skin
- goose bumps.
- Choke Nuts
- a crazy situation.
- Chop Suey
- [typical] all mixed up.
- Cockroach
- to steal.
- Da Kine
- [Dah-Kiiine] any "thing" to which you're referring.
- Geev'Um
- [sounds just like it looks] or go for it.
- Hana Hou
- [ha nah ho], one more time.
- HuHu
- [HOO-HOO] angry.
- Imua
- [EE mooh ah] number one.
- Kapakahee
- [Kah-pah-KAH-hee] lop-sided; one-side; crooked; messed up.
- Kapu
- [Kah-POO] forbidden; taboo.
- Kuleana
- [Kooh lee ah na] one's right; responsibility.
- Lolo
- [LowLow] stupid idiot.
- Make
- [Mah-keh] dead.
- Moi Moi
- [Moy-Moy] sleep
- Manini
- [MAH nee' nee] cheap or petty.
- Niele
- [NEE-el-aaa] nosy.
- Okole
- [Oh-KOO-Lei] butt.
- Ono
- [Oh-No] delicious.
- Pau
- [Pow]--finished.
- Pau Hana Time
- [Pow- Hah-nah] quitting time.
- Panty
- [same] wimp.
- Pilau
- [PEE-law] foul or dirty.