hoser

Chinese translation: You are right.

10:26 Jun 24, 2005

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Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama

English term or phrase: hoser

Although most reviewers and reporters describe it as a “mockumentary” along the lines of Christopher Guest’s films—or Dowse’s own first feature, the hoser classic Fubar—Dowse practically snarls at the term.

我在网上查了一下，hoser好像是傻瓜、白痴的意思，那么，hoser classic 是不是搞笑杰作？谢谢

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Chinese translation:You are right.

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hoser
Canadian term popularized by the McKenzie brothers referring to someone clumsy or stupid who drinks beer excessivly.
"You hoser, eh!"
Source: Bowman, Jun 16, 2002
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hoser

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goofy-hoser comedy

Some of the other films are anticlimactic or even disappointing in comparison, like the goofy-hoser comedy The Dog Walker, or the hollow monologue Pink, set in apartheid-era South Africa, in which a 12-year-old white girl rants at her ...
www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=2068 - 10k

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