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An increasingly popular im abbreviation for 'whatever.' Used when dismissing another person's comments in a chat room or messenger-type setting.
by vaeren May 17, 2007
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by vaeren August 20, 2008
Get the password purgatory mug.n. The place where hydrocarbons (oil and/or natural gas) are produced. "The oilfield" is also a term used by oil & gas industry professionals to describe their industry and the work associated with it.
by vaeren January 13, 2007
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by vaeren December 18, 2006
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by vaeren January 13, 2007
Get the lost time mug.A phenomenon which occurs during the final stages of a bad situation (or failboat), failsuck is the tendency of a situation to consume huge quantities of time and resources before it is corrected, resolved or abandoned. Once a situation collapses under its own 'gravity of fail' it becomes a 'vortex of failsuck' that begins to consume all people, time, and resources in its vicinity.
John left the meeting, but was pulled back in when Steve suggested changing the contract, collapsing the meeting into a vortex of failsuck.
by vaeren April 25, 2009
Get the failsuck mug.An exfoliating treatment provided by small hailstones driven by 60+ mph winds. Typically experienced on oil rigs and platforms in the North Sea, between Norway and the United Kingdom
The wind was blowing 75 knots today, and it was hailing, so I got a North Sea Facial on the way to the drill floor.
by vaeren January 26, 2008
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