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spin doctor

1) somebody who works in or for the media who ensures that the public understands things from a certain perspective.

2) a radio station DJ, or MC at a club or event.
1) we think that the spin doctors at the local TV station helped the mayor win the election.

2) the club boom anniversary party spin doctor was awesome!
by Bungalow Bill July 1, 2004
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quan

When you are one with something. Suggests unity or completion. A loosely defined quality combining or uniting athletic skill with love and respect, as well as money.
This word is used in the movie Jerry Maguire by Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. "Jerry, you are the ambassador of quan." And "Some players have coin, but I have the quan."
by jyther November 22, 2002
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lego hair

a particularly shitty male haircut in which the sides cover the ears and the hair appears to be "snap on".
Cha Chi hadn't had a haircut in weeks. When he showed up it looked like he had lego hair.
by daniel hanner January 2, 2007
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manicorn

a mythical male creature who is successful (read: pursuing his passion and can pay his electric bills/rent), funny, chivalrous, masculine (read: not chauvinistic), adventurous, artistic (read: not suicidal).
See any John Cusack film (or Chuck Klosterman's witty commentary on Fake Love in Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Pops), any romantic comedy where the flawed guy comes through in the end...

"Where is my manicorn? I keep going out with all these losers!"

"Too bad I settled when I got married, I just met my manicorn."
by B&E April 12, 2007
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Joe Sixpack

Average American moron, IQ 60, drinking beer, watching baseball and CNN, and believe everything his President says.
This is so simple, even a Joe Sixpack can understand.
by Herr Snecke September 6, 2003
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fud

Acronym for "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt." Originally created to refer to smear campaigns used by IBM against competing products to maintain market share -- "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Often used to refer to a marketing campaign centered around the use of scare tactics or ad hominem attacks towards one's competitors.
"The SCO case versus Linux is FUD, plain and simple."
by Anonymous August 5, 2003
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October Surprise

When, in a last minute effort to become re-elected, a political figure happens upon a bit of "lucky coincidence."
News from October 31: We found Osama!

... although we really had his ass in a cell under the Pentagon the last three years.
by K Dawg Plus September 6, 2004
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