Tuesday, May 11, 2010

billain

Portmanteau. A character in a genre thriller who is evil just because he is very, very rich.

cf. every James Bond book.

2 comments:

  1. "While school budgets are slashed across the country, a small group of Wall Street billains grow obscenely rich."

    I like it! Death to the billains. Let's blow up their underground lairs and loot their treasuries. Where is 007 when we need him?

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  2. He's still in with M who is trying yet again to get him to understand how CDOs work.

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