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The Vactor Factor

The element of a party that would make it the best time ever. The reason people will come back to your party. The reason people talk about your party for years afterwards.

Also...The black guy at the party (usually a tailgate) that everyone is excited is coming. He's loud, obnoxious, HILARIOUS, and can drink for hours on end.
I thought this weekend was going to suck but I forgot about "The Vactor Factor"! It's goin to be awesome!

Tailgater 1: "I don't know if I can go to the game on Saturday."
Tailgater 2: "The Vactor Factor will be there."
Tailgater 1: "well then I'm DEFINITELY going to make it!"
The Vactor Factor by Young Jensen January 23, 2011
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Empty the Vactor 

Public Works slang for taking a number 2
Me: I’m gonna go and empty the vactor real quick
Coworker: I already did that earlier today
Me: No the Vactor, my bowels!
Coworker: oh! That Vactor
Empty the Vactor by Jahamez August 28, 2022

Hopcat Victory

When you win at anything, but you didn’t deserve the win or you simply cheesed a win
Peter won the match of smash bro’s only because my recovery is trash.

Peter replies with “Now that’s what I call a hopcat victory
(VAY-TORE) Slang terminollagy replacing the word elevator.Often found in residential houses with a grandma liuetennant patrol officer charging $.05 cents a ride. This is no normal vator, your life will change after riding the vator. And your expieriences will not end until the day you die.

producers of the definition VATOR
Dewy, and John Stat from Mentor, OH Copyright© May 2006

Hey whuts up? I was just seein if u were "down" to vade tonight?, you know hop on that vator

Vator by Stat, and Dewi June 1, 2006

vator vapor 

The smell of an elevator.
The vator vapor was horrible at the Queens in Hotel.
vator vapor by jeffbo May 25, 2009
Short for elevator. Slang among Rice University students.
Hold the vator!
vator by owlatrice April 27, 2004

McCarthy’s Victory 

McCarthy’s Victory — the modern equivalent of a Pyrrhic Victory wherein one wins a single battle in such a devastating way that it causes the war to be lost. This term is an example of historical displacement.

The original term “Pyrrhic victory” was coined by Plutarch to commemorate the disastrous victory of King Pyrrhus of Epirus over the Romans in 279 BCE. Casting what must be thought of as the original “shade”, Plutarch spoke the following words in his writings through the mouth of Pome’s opponent:

Alia victoria sic est et hoc bellum ego perdam

Meaning: Another victory like this and I will lose this war.

Historical displacement is a phenomena that occurs when a major fuck-up — or victory — is surpassed in a more recent time.

The term “Pyrrhic victory” first appeared in the English language somewhere between 1880 and 1885. As a neologism it has stood unchallenged — somewhat based on the idea that no one could ever fuck up as badly as King Pyrrhus of Epirus.

History was wrong.

Or, to put Plutarch’s words into Kevin McCarthy’s mouth:

Alia victoria sic est et hoc bellum ego perdam.

To which I add:

Adfers quod volebas, tigris; Quomodo gustat?

Which means: You got what you wanted, tiger; How does it taste?
Teacher to the honor’s history class of Barack Obama Highschool in the year 2097:

“The term McCarthy’s Victory replaced the more classical term

Pyrrhic Victory as a neologism on January 6th 2023 — ironically on the 1st annual anniversary of the insurrectionist attack on our then Capitol, Washington D.C. This is an example of what is known as historical displacement — or to use a more colloquial term from that era “throwing shade”,