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contextricate

Convenient one word term for the otherwise clumsy "take out of context". Obviously derived from context and extricate (latter meaning to elaborately and deviously withdraw from a precarious situation). This is new coinage - you heard it on Urban Dictionary first.
The attorney contextricated his client's ex-wife tennis lessons on summer afternoons to give them the appearance of a tawdry romance ostensibly culminating in a tryst.
by Slick Willy March 16, 2005
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Achtung

The sound of hocking, and then aiming the hock to perfectly hit the rim of the spitoon to make the "-tung!!" sound. It made everyone pay attention, hence its other, more common definition. Alleged to be the first word in the German language, on which all other words are based.
Acccccccccchhhhh-splat!!!! dammit, let me try again ... don't slip on that ...
Acccccccccchhhhh-TUNGGGG!!!! There ya go!
by Slick Willy March 16, 2005
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tautology

A logical statement in which the conclusion is equivalent to the premise
Example of a tautology: Bad people take drugs; therefore, people who take drugs are bad.
The other definition appearing here, "Unnecessary repetition of a word", is a crudification and wrong - such pointless reiterative repetition is a redundancy, and one who makes such a definition is called a "redundunce". Consult Fowler.
by Slick Willy March 16, 2005
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chastise

To cause a mate to be without orgasms, or restricted in arousal. To keep restricted within a chastity device: for women, to prevent penetration; for men, to prevent erection and fondling. See cbt. See also tease.
Marriage for this unusual couple marked the beginning of his frustration: she chastised him for weeks at a time, while consorting and cavorting herself with his best friends and neighbors.
by Slick Willy March 16, 2005
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stet

v.intr. To direct that a word or statement be allowed to stand in its original, unrevised form. To let something stand in its original form.

v.tr. To overrule a "correction"
(From Latin, to et it stand, third person singular present subjunctive of stare; typesetters' / copy editors abbreviation to "uncorrect" a revision made in error. As typesetting becomes obsolete, alas, so probably will this powerful little word.)
Eyes filled with tears of joy the profligate wife stetted the divorce suit before it was finalized, throwing the document now confetti about her estranged husband's head.
by Slick Willy March 16, 2005
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wayfarers

old school(sixties and seventies)shades that have flat, not wraparound, lenses; popularized by musicians such as Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, and Billy Joel.
I found some sweet wayfarers in my dad's closet and they make me look like Billy Joel.
by Slick Willy October 24, 2004
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also-ran

neither a loser nor a winner, inescapably more pathetic, less evocative of empathy, less romantic than winner or loser.
The Hollywood starlet had been attracted to champions and to down-and-outlaws, but the milquetoast also-ran in his Ford Pinto didn't even register beyond her retina.
by Slick Willy February 19, 2005
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