[Warning: This story contains spoilers from The Comic Book Store Regeneration episode of CBS' The Big Bang Theory.] CBS' The Big Bang Theory said farewell to one of its own during its latest episode. During Thursday's The Comic Book Store Regeneration episode, Howard (Simon Helberg) learns that his mother, Debbie Wolowitz â voiced by the late Carol Ann Susi â passed away in her sleep while on vacation in Florida.
2. dyke-a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea. dam, dike. barrier-a structure or object that impedes free movement. milldam-dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.owever, it has been increasingly adopted as a preferred term by young or radical homosexuals and in the academic community. In the mainstream homosexual community, gay and lesbian remain the terms of choice. (a term used to refer to a female homosexual or lesbian.). [1930â35; of uncertain origin]. dykeâ²y, adj.
The term dyke or dike is a slang noun meaning lesbian; it is also a slang adjective describing things associated with lesbianism.he Oxford English Dictionary (OED) dates the first recorded use of dike, dyke in 1942, in Berrey and Van den Bark's American Thesaurus of Slang. The term bulldyker, from which dyke may have been shortened, first appeared in 1920s novels connected with the Harlem Renaissance.