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Definitions by QuacksO

"special letter" literature 

cliterature: "Steamy" prose or poetry.
eliterature: Writings regarding the "upper crust" in society.
fliterature: Books and magazines about birds and other winged creatures.
glitterature: Printed-matter puffery that's merely "all for show".
sliterature: "How to" publications about careful cutting an incising.
I prefer just run-of-the-mill reading-material; no "special letter" literature for me, thank you very much!

leanient 

Mild and forgiving towards others regarding their act of resting part of their weight against something (or someone!).
People with new/shiny/expensive vehicles are not known for being particularly leanient regarding anyone's resting part of their body against said fancy-pants parcels of sheet-metal.
leanient by QuacksO October 4, 2020

pilately 

Or "philates". A fitness program dat involves exercise from working with postage-stamps.
Couch-potatoes swear by da "pilately" exercise-program because it actually involves virtually no effort at all.
pilately by QuacksO October 4, 2020

ladies rea

Roxie Hart's state of mind prior to murdering Fred Casely.
Billy Flynn used the ladies rea angle to defend Roxie during her murder trial.
ladies rea by QuacksO October 4, 2020

damnonstration 

Refers to a brief display of how well/effortlessly someone can utter strong language. Can also refer to a noisy protest/riot where these unnecessary adjectives are freely/liberally bandied about.
Caring parent: I try to be very careful what public places I take my little ones to, they are much too young and impressionable to hear any damnonstrations yet!
damnonstration by QuacksO October 3, 2020

infracktion 

A rules-violation regarding hydraulic-pressure-based mining.
Modern-day mining techniques are indeed impressive, but I am concerned about all of the infracktions that often go along with said operations.
infracktion by QuacksO October 2, 2020

Tallahasselhoff 

Refers to how Knight Rider hero Michael Knight retired from F.L.A.G., moved to Florida, and took up skateboarding.
Since K.I.T.T. could perform so many of the wonderfully-agile long-jumps, tilts, pirouettes, etc. that skateboarding-pros display, it's only fitting that his aging driver-buddy would have ended up doing a Tallahasselhoff at the end of his glorious crime-fighting career.
Tallahasselhoff by QuacksO October 2, 2020