This page contains a glossary defining, explaining, and/or providing pronunciation for terms, phrases, names, concepts, etc. from our text of I Want You To Hit Me With Your Car. They are listed in chronological order, and are listed with the page number the term can be found on in the current draft of the script. If you would like something specific defined or explained that is not currently in the glossary, please let me know and I can add it!
If a definition or piece of information is directly quoted from somewhere else, the glossary entry will include underlined text, which is a link to the source. Quotes come directly from the link/source directly above it. Otherwise, definitions were compiled from personal knowledge.
If a definition or piece of information is directly quoted from somewhere else, the glossary entry will include underlined text, which is a link to the source. Quotes come directly from the link/source directly above it. Otherwise, definitions were compiled from personal knowledge.
- Impudent (p. 1)
- ɪmpjudɪnt / IM-pyoo-dent
- “Lacking modesty; marked by contemptuous or cocky boldness or disregard of others”
- Vapid (p. 1)
- “lacking flavor, zest, interest, animation, or spirit”
- Synchronicity (p. 1)
- sinkɹonɪsɪti / sink-roh-NIH-sih-tee
- Moving completely in sync/at the same time
- Catacombs (p. 6)
- “a subterranean cemetery of galleries with recesses for tombs—usually used in plural”
- A reference to the D.C. catacombs
- “a subterranean cemetery of galleries with recesses for tombs—usually used in plural”
- Triple platinum (p. 8)
- “platinum certification means that an album has sold 1 million copies or that a single has sold 2 million copies. RIAA introduced multi-platinum certification in 1984 to acknowledge album sales higher than 1 million.”
- This means that TStS’s album sold at least 3 million copies in the era of Spotify and other streaming services—a major accomplishment
- “platinum certification means that an album has sold 1 million copies or that a single has sold 2 million copies. RIAA introduced multi-platinum certification in 1984 to acknowledge album sales higher than 1 million.”
- Malmö (p. 11)
- mɑlmʌ / MAHL-muh (Swedish)
- malmo / MAL-moh (English)
- The third-largest city in Sweden, located in the Southwest of Sweden along the Öresund strait. It is connected to Copenhagen, Denmark by the Öresund Bridge."
- de apatiska (p. 12)
- dɔm ɒpɒstiskʌ / dohm-ah-pah-TEESS-kuh
- Please see this page on de apatiska for more!
- uppgivenhetssyndrom (p. 12)
- ʌpgivɪnhɛtsɪndɹom / up-GEEV-in-HET-sin-DROME
- "resignation syndrome, an illness that is said to exist only in Sweden, and only among refugees. The patients have no underlying physical or neurological disease, but they seem to have lost the will to live."
- Please see this page on de apatiska for more!
- trygghet (p. 12)
- tɹɪghjɛt / trig-hYET
- "a word that in English translates as 'security' but which has a broader meaning in Swedish: trust, a sense of belonging, freedom from danger, anxiety, and fear."
- Please see this page on de apatiska for more!
- Joey Fatone (p. 15)
- dʒoi fʌton / JOE-ee Fuh-TONE
- "An 'Actor, Children’s Activist, Singer' who was a member of the boy band ‘N Sync."
- Trichotillomania (p. 32)
- trɪkətɪləmɑɪniə / TRICK-uh-till-uh-mane-ee-uh
- "Trichotillomania is a body-focused repetitive behavior classified as an impulse control disorder…which involves pulling out one's hair. Hair pulling may occur in any region of the body in which hair grows but the most common sites are the scalp, eyebrows, and eyelids."
- Milquetoast (p. 36)
- mɪlktost / MILK-toast
- “Feeble, insipid, or bland.”
- Flipping (p. 49)
- A “quick-profit strategy [that] usually involves buying property at a discount as a foreclosure or fixer-upper, rehabbing the property, and selling it for more than invested.”
- Lesotho (p. 52)
- lɛsoθo / leh-SO-thoh
- A country in Southern Africa. "Completely encircled by the Republic of South Africa but separated from it by forbidding mountain ranges, Lesotho has endured decades of turbulent politics, periodic economic crises, and grinding poverty since gaining its independence from Great Britain in 1966. Though culturally conservative in the main, the people of the country welcomed the modernization programs begun in the 1990s, which have brought new wealth to the country but at the cost of much environmental damage.”
- Freemasons (p. 56)
- "As a fraternal organization, Freemasonry unites men of good character who, though of different religious, ethnic, or social backgrounds, share a belief in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of mankind...The traditions of Freemasonry are founded upon the building of King Solomon’s Temple, and its fraternal ceremonies use the working tools of the stonemasons to symbolize moral lessons and truths. For example, Masons are reminded at Lodge to 'meet upon the level of equality, act by the plumb of uprightness, and part upon the square of virtue.'"