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quadraphonic

What surround sound was called before it went out of style in the 70s. Frequently abbreviated as quad.
You should have heard Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here in quadraphonic.
by Downstrike June 5, 2004
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smoke alarm

1. euphemism for a small busybody, frequently mounted on the ceiling, that tattles every time anyone cooks anything or takes a shower.

2. Good excuse to have a migraine.

3. Might even alert peeps to smoke too, if it didn't run its batteries down doing false alarms.

4. Never taken seriously due to false alarms. See also, cry wolf.
The landlord had to put in smoke alarms to satisfy fire code and insurance. The rents had to take the batteries out of the little ijits to preserve our sanity.

The whole complex burned down because a neighbor left the batteries in his smoke alarm, so when another neighbor's smoke alarm went off, he thought it was a false alarm.
by downstrike April 26, 2006
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c2c

Consumer to Consumer. See also, b2b and b2c.
c2c means conducting business between consumers instead of with a business.

Yard sales and eBay auctions are examples of c2c.
by Downstrike June 7, 2004
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lynch mob

1. A group of people that lynches someone who was accused of something, but who was never tried for it.

2. The group of people who lynched Jesus, even though he was tried and found innocent.

3. The masses of people who celebrate a lynching by displaying replicas, from their necks and on their homes and churches, of the weapon used in a lynching.
90 years ago, a lynch mob used a weapon made of rope to lynch my paternal grandfather.

2,000 years ago, a lynch mob used a weapon made of wood to lynch my Eternal Father.

I won't insult the memory of either one of them by displaying a replica of the injustice committed against either one of them.
by Downstrike November 8, 2004
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That's the way the cookie crumbles.

1. (sympathetically) These things happen, even if we don't like them.

2. (sarcastically) Learn to live with it, you whiner!
1. "No fun tonight. The party's been canceled."

"That's the way the cookie crumbles."

2. "You scratched my car!"

"That's the way the cookie crumbles!"
by Downstrike May 28, 2004
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littles

1. A race of mouse-sized and mouse-tailed humanoids from an 80s cartoon series called, The Littles. Little is also the surname of just about every mouse-sized humanoid character in the series. Most episodes centered around the adventures, misadventures, and struggles of two preteen littles.
2. Slang term used by the MPD-DID subculture to indicate child personas of adults who have multiple personalities.
My littles like to watch The Littles.
by Downstrike September 25, 2005
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holy shit

An expression by which some people identify their deity.
"I saw you come out of a church Sunday."

"Holy shit!"
by Downstrike May 29, 2004
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