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tax shelter

n. Bunker in which to hide with one's tax returns when the press come around.

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I need a few more yards of concrete. The reporters got a backhoe and dug up my last tax shelter.

Have you thought of using a charitable foundation?
by gnostic3 October 3, 2016
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hurricane mickey

n. Any overblown squall that generates a lot of hype and closes airports and, most especially, amusement parks.

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Up for a trip to Disney World?
I hear it's closed . There's a hurricane mickey coming.
Surfing then?
by gnostic3 October 6, 2016
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Nobel gesture

n. A refusal of a major cash prize or honour because of the horribly tainted origin of the award money.

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I hear Bob Dylan is going to refuse the Nobel Prize because Alfred Nobel made his fortune manufacturing high explosives.

Excellent. He is to be congratulated for making a Nobel gesture
by gnostic3 November 3, 2016
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gravy wave

n. Aussie surfer term for a special thunderous wave that comes at the end of a good day of banging about on the woolies.

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What you reckon? Time to get home and grease the koala?

No, no! Hang about Fred! I think I see a gravy wave forming.
by gnostic3 November 3, 2016
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cubbywhole

n. A Chicago Cubs fan who has become a complete person because of the long awaited victory of the Cubs in the World Series.

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We won. We finally won! The final piece in the puzzle that is life has fallen into place! At last I am a cubbywhole.

You got that right.
by gnostic3 November 4, 2016
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cubbyhole

n. A situation in an important game where a team blows a lead and looks to be in danger of losing a chance to finally win a championship.

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Dude! The X-Games gold was totally in your gnarly pouch and then you dug yourself into a cubbyhole.

Yeah, but I pulled myself, and pulled myself, and finally came first.
by gnostic3 November 4, 2016
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herpectomy

n. Removal of a herpetic lesion. A fanciful operation conceived by alternative practitioners and desired by ignorant sufferers.
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So I was all like, "I needs a herpectomy, I got a date tonight!" And he just stares down his stethoscope and says that operation don't exist. Don't exist! I see ads for it on those bus signs every day!
by gnostic3 November 4, 2016
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