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regular expression 

A text string pattern matching mechanism. Usually applied to individual lines of text, such as from a simple text file, where the regular expression (sometimes abbreviated as RE) pattern can be used to precisely specify which lines ought to match and which shouldn't. The more complicated REs may look very confusing to people who don't know them, as they look more like a random string of letters and other characters without any obvious meaning.

Commonly they're enclosed between slashes (/like this/), because that's how they were used in many ancient Unix tools. They can also be used for text substitution, for example with the s/ construct. A common operator specifying that a RE will follow is the tilde (~).

The Perl language makes heavy use of regular expressions, and the grep tool also searches by REs. SED and AWK are some older tools also using REs.

REs come in two forms: Basic REs and Extended REs, varying slightly in syntax and possible contructs. Perl extens the Extended REs even further and has defined the standard "Perl Compatible REs" (PCRE).
"some example string" =~ /^s*.*e+.*(?:x.* )?.*?g$/
result: 1 (because the regular expression between the // matches the string)

Expressionate 

To be both expressive and passionate at the same time.
She was very expressionate when she argued with her husband.
Expressionate by Margy737 September 1, 2010

Expensive Month 

The term used when there are five Friday's & Saturday's in one month to go out drinking. Months i.e in 2010 are January, July and October.
Jack (1st text on February 8th) - Where the hell did you get to at the weekend, we all had a wicked time :-)

Tom (1st text) - Sorry mate had no money, last month was an Expensive month. :-(

Jack (2nd text) - We all had way too much to drink, and I slept with your x :-O{

Tom (No 2nd text)

excessive clocking 

To keep looking at the clock in nervous situations.
Daquan has been known for excessive Clocking when his skank ass bitch ass hoe Laquifa be fighting with him.

Laquifa:
"Who's Jenelle?!?
Daquan:
*excessive clocking*
Laquifa:
"I'm takin yo son and movin out bitch"
Daquan:
"What son?"
excessive clocking by Burkblue April 16, 2015

sexpressive 

expressing one's emotional state through sex
When you can't be expressive...be sexpressive.
sexpressive by Fasco July 25, 2017

Expressionable

Of, or relating to, the outward display of expression or emotion. Specifically when it proves Mike wrong.
Alphonso, not being very expressionable, easily goes unnoticed.
Expressionable by BHoudini2 March 25, 2020