Calvinball

A game or activity where one player makes up the rules, can change the rules at any time, and doesn't have to tell you the rules (unless you break a rule, of course).

The Supreme Court Is Playing Constitutional Calvinball

Calvinball by JusticeCalvin June 29, 2022

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Calvinball

game in which there is only one rule, that being "you cannot repeat any action."

"Baseball is so organized. We should go play Calvinball!"
"Nothing is less organized than Calvinball."

Calvinball by Lionél Dripps April 15, 2004

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Related Words

Calvinball • Calvanball • Calvinbah

Calvinbah

HE is a god amongst mortal, a lord amongst ladies, A smacker of booty. Sock it to him sock it to him hard.

"hey calvinbah"
"fuck off noob"

Calvinbah by calvinbah December 6, 2006

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Calvanball

someone's stupid misspelling of Calvinball, an imaginary game from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip

Calvanball was used in defining Jickball.

Calvanball by OutsideLookingIn July 17, 2010

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Fleg

The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.

"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"

Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013

Word of the Day on July 18, 2026

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Skeef

To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.

"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."

Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026

Word of the Day on July 17, 2026

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Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.

I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand

Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026

Word of the Day on July 16, 2026

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