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flagellant

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Someone who flagellates her or himself. In particular, a religious ascetic/masochist who attempts to attain a sublime state or to purge disease or sin through whipping or beating her or himself with ropes, chains and/or flails.

In the Warhammer fantasy battle game, flagellants are a type of special unit available to human armies who wield chains/flails, wear no armour and are immune to psychological effects such as fear.
"Oh no! It's flagellants, whipping themselves into a frenzy as usual"
(Warhammer: Dark Omen)
by Andy April 28, 2004
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Hippogriff

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A type of monster which appears in some fantasy games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Warhammer. It is a large creature with the body of a horse, the head of an eagle and the wings of a griffon.
The host of the High Elves hode forth, led by a mighty mage on a Hippogriff mount.
by Andy April 28, 2004
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penis

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Slang word for dick, sometimes used by doctors and scientists.
Does anyone really call it a "penis", apart from doctors and scientists?
by Andy April 27, 2004
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homo erectus

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huh huh.

homo erectus is a predecessor of modern humans. Members of this species had tools made of hard wood. They stored them inside orifices. And they spent most of their time impaling things with their long rods.

They used to grunt a lot, especially while impaling things. They drew graffiti on cave walls showing them trying to mount and stick their poles in horses and other animals.
homo erectus is a very cool name for cavemen (and women?).
by Andy April 27, 2004
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I'm game

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Phrase used by a deer, fox or other animal running away from a hunter. see also animal rights, fox hunting.
Hey, why are you shooting at me, you stupid human? Isn't it bad enough that you've trashed the fucking planet, and now you're shooting at me for no reason?
by Andy April 27, 2004
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Angband

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Fortress in the wilderness to the north of Beleriand, originally built by Melkor/Morgoth prior to the birth of the elves, overrun but not fully explored by the Valar in this period, and later reoccupied by Morgoth and his followers, including Sauron and the Balrogs. Angband was a large iron fortress with deep and complicated dungeons in which Morgoth kept prisoners and slaves and bred foul creatures such as dragons, werewolves and orcs.

Included Utumno and was surrounded by a second defensive perimeter, Thangorodrim. It is a central location in JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion.

Angband was virtually unassailable, and was used by Morgoth as a base of operations for his infiltration and conquest of Beleriand. Beren and Luthien succeeded by means of magic in entering the fortress, beguiling Morgoth and stealing a Silmaril, but elvish military operations in the First Age were necessarily defensive, and the areas between Angband and the elven realms, such as the Passes of Sirion, Ard-Galen, Dorthonion and the plains of Lothlann, were the site of battles throughout the First Age. Angband, along with Beleriand, was destroyed at the end of the First Age.

There is also an action/RPG computer game named "Angband" and a second named "Utumno", based loosely on Morgoth's fortress.
After his capture, Maedhros son of Feanor was strung up from the face of Angband.

The Orcs were bred in the pits of Angband from elves lured into the fortress and then imprisoned by Morgoth.

Morgoth's lieutenant Sauron was sent to a fortress nearer the elves, on the river Sirion. He fled back to Angband after this fortress was destroyed by Luthien.
by Andy April 27, 2004
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downsizing

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This is corporate slang for sacking workers, used to avoid actually admitting that this is what you're doing.

Workers beware! They think they can stop us fighting back by using these kinds of words so we don't figure out what they're up to until it's too late.
The company is committed to a long-term project of downsizing and restructuring in response to changes in the world market.
by Andy April 27, 2004
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