menoPorsche

menoPorsche
 n.Gloss: a play on “menopause” which refers to the supposed tendency of men going through a mid-life crisis to buy impractical sports cars. «Ah, the male menoPorsche (what was that about “style over substance”?» —“Subject: Re: Crash ban lifted?” by Stephen Mellor Usenet: uk.people.gothic June 16, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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