Taking off from school in order to get work done, miss a test, and/or push back a due date. Similar to playing hooky, the difference being you are actually doing work.
"We had 3 tests and a paper due today, so I took a strategic absence."
by Dr. Odenbach March 1, 2009
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... is when there is only one competitive strategy in a game that was designed to have many. See: 1:35 of Extra Credits' "Is the Game Broken? - Designer's Intent and the Triple Power Rule - Extra Politics - #7" video
Laureline: Yo Wu Zetian is so OP why would I bother playing any other Civilization See: Sid Meier's Civilization V.

Mereoleona: Nah sis, methinks that you're just playing off that Civ 5 is suffering from strategic collapse. If any Civ would inbring strategic collapse to Civ 5 it would be Nebuchadnezzar II's science victory. Ya prob simp Wu Zetian tis the only reason ya prob saying such poppycock.
by MaxwellMurdoch October 22, 2020
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(N) When you find yourself a party with two or more people that think you are 'serious' with them, leaving you with only one logical choice: to blackout, so you don't need to choose one/ make things awkward for the future. Tryna f(x).
Hogarth: Dude, fuck. Both Nicole AND Alex are at this party and they both think we have something going. I can't let either one of them see me with the other.

P-Rod: Isn't it obvious, asshole? You need a STRATEGIC BLACKOUT.

Hogarth: Holy fuck, you fucking genius, pass me the fucking Wolfschmidt.

P-rod: I deserve a Nobel Fucking Peace Prize.

Hogarth: I fucked ur mom loljk.
by Animalcrackers April 26, 2014
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A woman who behaves in a very flirty and sexually suggestive way with men who can help her career. She blows off women and non-powerful men if the men she wants to please are available.
All of Elizabeth's coworkers noticed she spent the whole reception with male managers, touching and rubbing on them, giggling at their jokes, and drinking with them. Jason noted she was a strategic slut.
by legstr November 16, 2013
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A person who knows how to get drunk as inexpensively and efficiently as possible, with the least possible adverse side effects to their health. Such behavior may include, but not limited to: pre-drinking before clubbing, therefore having to buy less alcohol. buying drinks which have more alcohol for less money. Scoping out the bar in a club and moving in when there is little or no line. And drinking to the point of enjoyable intoxication without making oneself sick.
Sarah is a strategic drunk, she loaded up with 6 shots of martinis before even getting her pants on.
by Jimbobillybob January 5, 2008
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When an individual decides to take a shit early in the day because taking a shit later will prove to be very difficult. The person doesn't necessarily have to shit, but only does so because it is beneficial.
Sam: Where's Chris?

Steve: Well, Chris is having dinner with his girlfriend's parents after the football game. After that he's working the night shift bartending, so he's taking a strategic shit right now.
by TheFuriousLeftNut September 20, 2009
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The process of showing up too a dinner party late, not to be fashionable, but to wait until others are already there so you can strategically sit next to people you want to, and more importantly, away from those that you don't.
I dropped a deuce in my pants at the thought of spending two hours next to that fucking popinjay Cass D., so I made sure I came strategically late, to know where he was sitting and I sat at the other table.
by Mark Scott 69 February 27, 2009
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