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trine promotion

trine promotion - when someone is fired, or reassigned, but it is spun as a promotion to anyone outside the organization.
Jon was given a trine promotion from director of maintainance to grounds superintendent.

After a few losing seasons, Bob was trine promoted to assistant athletic director.
trine promotion by Nospinner November 16, 2011
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Management Trainee 

A taxi driving, car washing, over worked, under paid person in their mid twenties wasting their college degree on learning to take it up the poop shoot from bitchy customers who can't fathem paying for a rental car.
I have a degree in animal biology. Yet, I'm a Management Trainee. Spending my days washing cars in a suit and tie in 90 degree weather for a whopping 10.46 per hour.
Management Trainee by eracer March 27, 2009
A Person that is training at a company. A trainee can debut as an Idol in the future. They have a schedule set by the company. A lot of trainees quit their contract with a company because of exhaustion.
Person1: Have you heard of Suho?
Person2: Yes, he was a trainee for 7 years!
Trainee by Oh Sehun November 16, 2014
Triple the chinese
A word used to call person that acts chinese.
Dude: I like dumplings!
Other dude: I see your Trinese.
Trinese by Killerninja August 21, 2012

Effie Trinket 

An amazing character from the series; "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins that picks the names for the people to be entered as "tributes" in The Hunger Games.
Aside from being that character in the book, she is played in the upcoming movie by Elizabeth Banks.
However, you should probably only pay attention to THIS DESCRIPTION...
Effie Trinket is a flashy, colorful, mildy entertaining freak-o in the book who is overly eccentric and scares people while haunting their dreams...
She may or may not want your soul.
Example #1:

Bob: "Dude, Effie Trinket haunts my dreams."

Bob's Mom: "Go drink some more cough medicine, sweetheart."

Example #2:

Katniss: "Don't worry Prim, it's your first year, you're not gonna get picked."

Effie Trinket: "Challenge accepted. Primrose Everdeen!"

Katniss: "You b@#$!! Crap I guess I will volunteer as tribute."

Peeta: "Anyone want some bread?"

Effie Trinket: "Fine, Peeta too."