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Shadeboxing 

When you ask your best friend to hate on your shine so you can practice curving(blocking out) the haters BEFORE the REAL haters show up in your DM/TimeLine/RealLife
Girl: I juss bought a new car. Paid in full!
BF: Girl you wanna do some shadeboxing
Girl: Hell yea! I ain't ready for what my momma or my co-workers gonna say.

BF: ok..... " is he dead or who's grandfather paid for that?"
Shadeboxing by Sundré March 14, 2018
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Shadowboxing 

When a person punches in motion at nothing particular, preparing for a fight or physical fitness.
Rocky is well known for his Shadowboxing!
Shadowboxing by Strong Chuy July 15, 2009

shineboxing 

1. The act of insulting someone via a reference to an embarrassing event in their past. The term was popularized by a scene in "Goodfellas" in which Billy Batts admonishes Tommy DeVito for his subservient childhood job by exclaiming "go home and get your f**kin shinebox."
2. Attacking someone for previous shameful actions, giving the impression said acts are indelible.
Mike opted to avoid attending his high school reunion, knowing they'd remember his loss of bladder control in gym class and be shineboxing him all night.
shineboxing by wordsmif August 25, 2010
Word of the Day on April 30, 2020

Shadowboxing 

Original: Shadowboxing is an exercise used in the training for combat sports, especially, as its name implies, in boxing. It is used mainly to prepare the muscles before the person training engages in stronger physical activity. In shadowboxing, only one person is required to take part; the participant throws punches into the air at no one in particular or an imaginary opponent.

Slang: The act of being evasive, vague or non-forthcoming with information.
Maria just flat out asked Carl if he was cheating on her and he immediately started shadowboxing. He told her everything except the truth.

shoeboxing 

An artform whose means of expression involves the repurposing of forgotten household artifacts (eg. old letters, poems, journals, notes) commonly stored in shoeboxes to create offbeat biographical portraits or stories.
Found Magazine, Mortified and Trachtenberg Family Slidehsow Players are popular shoeboxing projects.
shoeboxing by ste99 February 27, 2007

shadowboxing 

Shadowboxing is the act of jacking off, skeeting, spanking the monkey, beating off, or choking the chicken in your rack with the curtains are closed and when you have a light on in your rack. Then a shodow of you beatin your meat is dispalyed for everyone who happens to look and notice it to see.
Morrow-"Norton...quit jacking off while looking at porn at night. we could see the shadow of you beatin your meat. quit fuckin shadowboxing."

Norton-"Fuck...how the hell can you see through those curtains!"

Morrow-"Norton the shadowboxer."
shadowboxing by Norton1987 June 14, 2008

spaceboxing 

the act of releasing one's bowels into a waiting vagina
The spaceboxing Britt gave Allyson was unforgettable.
spaceboxing by TCgo September 20, 2008
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murderhobo 

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Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
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