Hamster

Created by Unknown User (crk4), last modified by Unknown User (crl12) on Apr 16, 2019

n. Backwash This word may have arisen as another way of referring to the band Backwash, a hyperactive ska-core from Worcester, which have been described as: "Like a pack of angry hamsters throwing one hell of a party in your brain".Source: Dictionary of Geneseo English, Spring 1999 - KocherAs of 2012, 0% of students surveyed know this definition.Of those surveyed in 2008, 9.1% knew the word, and of those, 0% learned it in Geneseo. Talbot, 2008.As of 2019, 23% of students surveyed know this word. 0% believe it is of local origins.(Luquer, 2019) As of 2025, 0% of students knew this term as defined above, and students have defined this term very differently to the original post, which was defined as “a small fluffy rodent, often kept as a pet”, with 0% of students believing the meaning to be nonlocal (Conklin, G-M, 2025).

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This seems like a hasty addition to the dictionary on the original poster’s part. I have never heard this term and I can’t figure out, for the life of me, why "hamster" means "backwash."

Posted by era6 at Dec 02, 2008 01:42

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