Amazon Rank

amazon rank
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): amazon ranked

1. To censor and exclude on the basis of adult content in literature (except for Playboy, Penthouse, dogfighting and graphic novels depicting incest orgies).
2. To make changes based on inconsistent applications of standards, logic and common sense.

Etymology: from 12 April 2009 removal of sales rank figures from books on Amazon.com containing sexual, erotic, romantic, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or queer content, rendering them impossible to find through basic search functions at the top of Amazon.com's website. Titles stripped of their sales rankings include "Bastard Out of Carolina," "Lady Chatterly's Lover," prominent romance novels, GLBTQ fiction novels, YA books, and narratives about gay people.

Example of usage: "I tried to do a report on Lady Chatterly's Lover for English Lit, but my teacher amazon ranked me and I got an F on grounds that it was obscene."

Alternate usage: "My girlfriend wanted to preserve her virginity, and I was happy to respect that, then she amazon ranked and decided anal sex was okay."

WHERE I COME FROM:
London, UK.

WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
Canal.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called?
Shopping trolley.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Takeaway carton.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Sofa or settee.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutters or Drains.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Marqui.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Fizzy drink.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
A stick (as in French stick) or baguette.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Swimming trunks.
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Trainers.
13. Putting a room in order?
Tidying up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
Wood Louse. 
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
See-saw.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
By hand
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Selling on Ebay.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain.