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Informal

v. "to palin"
The act or an instance of looking like an idiot during an interview because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. Reasons for palining an interview include ignorance and/or arrogance. Instead of admitting you don't know, you try to fake it be injecting obscure information into an answer hoping that the interviewer will forget their question.

tr.v. palined, palin·ing, palins
"She was nervous and completely palined her job interview." -Kate Stigberg

"Their literature leans toward a comedy of small social palins and withered chastity" -James Wolcott.

"Tommy Bowden was palining all over the place when they asked him why his offense has been so miserable this year." -Ken Burger

See also: Sarah Palin vs. Charles Gibson, Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric, et. al.
Palined by $nead January 14, 2009
Related Words
1. To flub, fail or otherwise stumble in response to simple, predictable questions in an interview; to give an off-topic and incoherent or syntactically suspect response to a simple, pre-dictable question in an interview; to do likewise in any other human endeavor. 2. To fabricate an untruth, that is easily verifiable as such, in response to a question for which one does not know the answer.
Katie asked Sarah what newspapers she read but Sarah totally palined and said "Entertainment Tonight!"
palined by oh-geek January 20, 2009
To present yourself as ready for a job, only to be exposed early on as a talentless uneducated wackjob with charm.
"Oh man I got Palined by this idiot contractor big time. They couldn't even keep the paint off the woodwork let alone hang the wallpaper straight."
Palined by THE DAVAD October 29, 2008
To mess something up or impale yourself.
Dude, I totally palined that interview today. I'll never get the job now!
Palined by hellcatv April 2, 2009
When Wikipedia entries are falsely changed to reflect the incorrect beliefs of one individual.
Person 1 - "During his midnight ride of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere warned the British they wouldn’t be taking away our arms."

Person 2 - "No one believes your palined facts from Wikipedia."
Palined by Abq505 November 30, 2011

How bout dem knicks? 

A phrase referring twoard the New York Knicks.
Its usually said to break an unplesent moment of silence.
Guy 1: I think I may be gay.
Guy 2: ...
Guy 1: ...
Guy 2: How bout dem knicks?
How bout dem knicks? by Flame060 March 28, 2005
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