The Seinfeld Dictionary

crook eye - (related terms: stink eye, evil eye) 1. dirty look achieved by a squinting eye motion combined with a crook of the head to one side. 2. sometimes given to a person giving you the stink eye. 3. Quote: “So I give him the crook eye back” – Kramer 4. Episodes: The Van Buren Boys, The Betrayal

cusp of a new wash cycle - 1. doing laundry the day after one meets another person 2. then wearing the exact outfit one met the person in, and wearing for the first date 3. quote: “but then shouldn’t the outfit only reappear again at the end of the cycle?” - Jerry “Maybe she moved it up in the rotation.” – George 4. episode: The Seven

call-waiting face-off – (related terms: cell phone walk-and-talk) 1. also called a phone face-off. 2. even worse than a cell phone walk and talk. 3. when a person is talking to a good friend to make a health inquiry, and ends the conversation to take another call. 4. episode: The Finale – Part 1

cell phone walk-and-talk - (related terms: call waiting face-off) 1. lowest phone call one can make. 2. a faux pas, an act of total disregard and selfish. 3. quote: “It’s like saying “I don’t want to take up any of my important time in my home so I’ll just get it out of the way on the street.” 4. episode: The Finale – Part 1

chucker – 1. someone who hogs the basketball and just shoots everytime they get the ball 2. quote: “No way I’m a chucker, I do not chuck, never chucked, never have chucked, never will chuck, no chuck!” – George 3. episode: The Boyfriend

Cry Cry Again – (related terms: Death Blow) 1. movie that Jerry is supposed to film for Brody 2. an artsy film with scenes of french guy falling off a bike and guy buying a loaf of bread  3. elaine tapes over the ending with her disturbing dancing. 4. quote: “Yeah, so you cry… and when you see the dancer, you cry again” – Jerry 5. episode: The Little Kicks

Checkmate – (related terms: Ponce de Leon, Rochelle, Rochelle) 1. movie that Elaine, Jerry, George and Kramer try to see. 2. showing at the Paragon and the Paradise. 3. quote: “I’ve been dying to see Checkmate…Well, if it’s half as good as “Ponce de Leon”. I’ll be be happy” — Elaine & George 4. episode: The Movie

Commando 450 – (related term: Commando 8) 1. black market shower head made in the former Yugoslavia. 2. only used in the circus for elephants 3. quote: “…from what I hear the Serbs are fanatic about their showers.” — Newman 4. quote: “I got the Cyclone F series, Hydra Jet Flow, Stockholm Superstream, you name it.” — black market shower salesman 5. episode: The Shower Head

chinese baldness cure – (related terms: baldist) 1. a CNN report on the Chinese cure for baldness 2. discovered by the Chinese doctor Zheng Zau at the Beijing hair restoration clinic 3. a smelly cream ordered by George and documented via video tape by Kramer. 4. quote: “What do the Chinese have to gain by faking a cure for baldness? If it was real ,they would never let it out of the country. No baldness , it’d be like a nation of Supermen” — George and Jerry 5. quote: “They say you grow hair, Look a like Stalin” — Ping 6. episode: The Tape

coup de’-toe – (related terms: pinkie toe accident) 1. Georges comedy bit that Jerry performs unsuccessfully about the foot 2. quote: “Yeah! like the big toe is like the captain of the toes, but sometimes the toe next to the big toe gets so big that there’s like a power struggle and the second toe assumes control of the foot.” — George 3. episode: The Tape