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The correct and original, but unfortunately obsolete, spelling of the word most commonly spelt now as enter.

- From Middle English: entren
- From Old French: entrer
- From Latin: intrō/intrā (inside)

Entre has been spelt as enter for several centuries now, even in the United Kingdom, although British English still retains its 're' ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.
1. My favourite Metallica song is Entre Sandman, from their Black Album.
2. Sir, you can't entre the building from this entrance, unless you have proper identification.

3. Entring people's homes, uninvited, is so rude!
4. I was unaware that I was about to have a surprise party, when I entred my house.
5. Every time I entre an aeroplane, I get all anxious.
Entre by garbaggio July 29, 2014
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entremanurial 

Capable of taking shit thrown away at the curb and fixing it or combining it with other shit thrown to the curb to make a useful object or piece of equipment.

Hey check it out: Charles found a couple of broken mowers at the curb and made a working one out of the two pieces of shit by putting the working parts together!
Hey look Charles found two pieces of shit lawnmowers at the curb and put them together to make one good running mower! He sure is entremanurial.
entremanurial by MacgalSC August 15, 2015

Enterprise Transformation 

An exercise undertaken by a company shortly before its web address becomes a "link to nowhere."
Six months before shuttering its windows and doors, Zombie Hyena Industry Solutions launched a last-ditch Enterprise Transformation initiative.

Entreparential 

When an enterprising millennial uses all their entrepreneurial energy with the sole focus of generating additional income and resources from of their parents. Typical strategies are as follows: Minor and Major injuries, car accident or other critical car related issues, pet accident and needs surgery, cyber attack resulting in fraud against your child, and many more tactics too heinous to mention.
Frank just thought that his 30-year-old cousin Sean was going to Starbucks every day working on a "new startup", he was shocked to find out Sean was just working on some entreparential strategies again.
Entreparential by Hixxz68 August 23, 2018
Translation-challenged way to refer to a main dish (at a restaurant) in the United States. It is directly derived from the French word "entrée" meaning "starter" or "appetizer".
I'm just going to go ahead and directly have an entree of cheeseburger and fries please.
entree by rorrzo August 11, 2017

Spank the entropy 

( abbrev. STE) Derivatives: Spank it; spank it hard (abbrev. SIH)

1. put in order and reduce chaos.
2. an expression of encouragement, a rally of support to handle a challenge.
3. get a grip on unruly matter and energy; overcome obstacles.
4. exerting personal will to prevent or stop deterioration of an object or situation.
5. a call to defeat the doctrine of inevitable decline and degeneration.
6. slapping the tendency of all matter and energy in the universe to decay to a state of inert uniformity.
7. looking the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the eye.
"Spank the entropy!"

"That sucks but I know you can spank it."

"I gotta spank my room it's a mess."

"He spanked the financial insolvency situation."

"Get a grip, spank it man, spank it hard."

"I'm off to spank some entropy."

A: "What an f-in mess."
B: "Well ... spank it."
Spank the entropy by Vanna Bonta January 19, 2008
In its simplest sense, the tendency for all things to go from order towards disorder. It is like the one way sign for energy flows in this Universe.
The best example is a hot cup of coffee. You walk into a coffee shop and check your pockets that yes, you do indeed have some coin of the realm that you spent time and energy to acquire somewhere else. This coin is therefore concentrated time and energy or effort. You then walk up to the counter and order (key word here) a hot cup of coffee. The Barrista, who has an understanding of what you want, then reaches for a cup that someone spent time and effort making, and someone made an effort to clean. He then pours in this fluid that contains pure (hopefully) water that has been heated (we pay the power company for the heat) and poured over these magic beans that came from far away, with many people involved with ships and trucks burning fuel so that these beans could arrive here. This cup of coffee is indeed a highly ordered structure in the Universe. But today, instead of drinking it, we are going to perform an experiment. If we let the cup of coffee sit on the table long enough, say 30 minutes, what happens? It gets cold. The heat energy that we paid for is no longer concentrated in the cup. It still exists, but in the room not in the cup. This is a gain in entropy. If we let the cup of coffee sit there long enough, say 4 days, we notice that some of the water that we paid for has evaporated. It still exists as water vapor in the room (probably attacking the wallpaper) but not in the cup. This too, is a gain in entropy. By this time the Barrista will probably come along to kick us out, after all we've been here 4 days and haven't actually drank any coffee. If he does kick us out then he will have to clean the cup, spending time and energy and hot water, to bring the cup back up to a useful higher energy state, ready for the next customer. This would be an example of negative entropy. But he had to spend more energy elsewhere to accomplish this.
But let's say he doesn't kick us out. If we are still sitting here watching the cup in about 30 years when the building falls over, breaking the cup, then this too is a gain in entropy.
I am one of the few people on the planet to tell you that negative entropy = life (localized), in thermodynamics this would appear in an equation as -Δs (pronounced minus delta s).
entropy by Coffe house Philosopher October 25, 2008