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a word used to refer to any item, place, event, feeling, matter/issue, detail, situation, course of action, idea, etc.
I can't find the thing.
Did you go to the thing?
The thing just got weird.
That's the thing to do.
I have to talk to you about the thing.
thing by gd January 27, 2003
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an apparently random activity or behavior that a given person or persons compulsively associate with specific circumstances. It may be because of a past association of the two activities. This term applies to personal traditions, some superstitions, and wider trends such as national proclivities.
We have this thing in my family where we sing Beatles songs whenever we eat pasta.

It's a thing with him that you can't look Billy Bob in the eyes or he'll refuse to speak with you.

I can't eat that. I have a thing about bananas.

Well, the first time Cynthia and I went on a date, we had lobster soup. So that's kind of a thing with us, and we try and have it on special occasions.

Me and Jeff call each other a 'robust fellow' whenever one of use scores a goal. It's a thing.

Listen, so what if you have issues about dog poop. Everybody's got their things. It's no big deal!

Man, people in Belgium have this weird thing where they eat french fries with mayonnaise.
thing by Chochacho August 3, 2006
1. A name for a couple, like a "pair" or a way to say that two people are going out. Not to be used for married people, it's usually used when someone suspects two people are going out, but doesn't know. Or they are telling someone that two people are going out.
1. "So, Josh and Brittany, I guess they're a "thing" now.
2. "Dude, so are Josh and Brittany, like, a "thing" or what?
Thing by chicken butt July 13, 2003
1. an object-like being of sorts...

2. penis
stop playing with your thingy or else your milk-volcano will overflow!
thing by guitarist1 November 10, 2008
Word substituted for that which is illegal.
You got that thing for me?

Did you buy that thing from down the street?
Thing by Abbie Big Time July 27, 2005
The correct name for the day formerly known as Thursday.

Started by the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans of h2g2.com
Hot spit, it's Thing already?!
Thing by Vinic March 31, 2003