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Greek Deadline 

A hard deadline which absolutely, positively, must be met or the world will end. Or not. Whatever.
"In other news, another Greek deadline for resolving their fiscal crisis has come and gone. Finance ministers are now saying that the REAL deadline for resolving this crisis is in two weeks."
Greek Deadline by GG top March 16, 2012

Deadline 

A line drawn within or around a prison that a prisoner passes at the risk of being shot.
114563: Don't cross the deadline man. Warden Hanson will shoot you down.
483190: I have to escape. I can't stay in this hellhole any longer!
Deadline by Order 65 July 3, 2017

Deadlinejunkie 

A deadlinejunkie is a person who can only function, or make progres when the deadline is close.
this mostly contains weeks of pushing work in front and then a couple of nights long hard work, while being stressed out about it.
"Yeah, she will not start till the last minute, she's a deadlinejunkie
Deadlinejunkie by Mord-sith January 12, 2011

artificial deadline 

A random deadline to complete a task, which has no real world consequences. For example, your office sets Monday as the deadline on all canned food donations for charity , but the box just sits there until Friday, which is the actual day they planned on taking it to the food bank.
"Hey bro, did you get your weekly report done for the big boss? He needs it today!"

"Naaah, it's only Wednesday. Wednesday's an artificial deadline, because he doesn't even send those reports to corporate for another week."

deadline 

Noun, Temporal:

Designates the approximate point in time at which work begins in earnest; employee motivation is frequently observed to be "dead" before the deadline draws near.
"Christ, it's the nearly deadline already?! Hey Pete, put down the controller my friend - it's time that we looked at these shuttle schematics."
deadline by Joshua B. Wright April 5, 2004
one of the three classic powerlifts requires pulling a barbell of the ground to a fully locked out position
George has a really weak deadlift because he has very weak muscles in his lower back
deadlift by Johnny mozadel February 24, 2005