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Verb To pass a task or responsibility to another, usually more senior, person. The opposite of the verb to delegate.
The staff would elegate anything but the simplest of tasks to their manager.
elegate by robdude January 21, 2009
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Elightenmentful 

When you’re too cool for school and smart in an enlightened way
Woah you being the bigger man is so Elightenmentful
The act of taking over a business, it's the third step in a 4 step process. One is not simply selected as boss, they humiliate the current boss, impose their will, and take control of the business. In return, the previous boss sulks in self misery.

Not to be mistaken by eliminate, elimate is the coup d'etat of the business world.
Maariko decided to elimate and take control of the business, leaving Russ in the dust.
Elimate by bizair20 February 22, 2020

eligagephalen

Has a huge penis and is the sex lord
Eligagephalen is the best in the bed
eligagephalen by Puobes December 6, 2020

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026