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When a slim marjority demands a vote because their opponent, just barely the minority, is stalling the vote. Used in the most extreme of polarizing issues, nearly exclusively.
The Democrats suck just as bad as the Republicans. Now that they have a slim majority they're pulling the same Up or Down Vote trick the Republicans tried when they were in charge.
by Colonel Kernel March 20, 2008
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A colossal failure where an enormous success was expected.
The 18 - 0 New England Patriots totally pulled a bear-stearns in Super Bowl XLII.

The Patriots bear-stearned before Bear Stearns bear-stearned.
by Colonel Kernel March 20, 2008
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A Black person. A reference to Africans, used as slave-labor, picking cotton on Southern United States plantations prior to the American Civil War (1861 - 1865).
No damn cotton picker's gonna date my daughter.
by Colonel Kernel March 7, 2008
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