A device/program that can be used to display spoken text on a screen. This is usually used for people who have lost the ability to hear or ARE losing their ability to hear effectively(old people.) This is also used frequently by my friends who go outside to smoke and watch TV through the sliding glass door....the bastards.
1. Dorris can barely hear a train run over her cats, but thanks to closed captioning she can still see what that shit-head Bush has to say about foreign policies.
2. "Yo, turn on the closed captioning. I wanna see what they're saying while I smoke." -friends
Someone who doesn't say much about themselves, no one really knows anything about their past, hobbies, or likes/dislikes.
A closed book is sometimes mistakenly defined as someone with "trust issues".
Person 1: How much do you know about her?
Person 2: Not much. She's a closed book, so she doesn't share much about her.
(noun)
The policy wherein the occupants of an office or room keep the door closed so as to limit the amount of annoying intrusions, which may consist of people wandering in or simply the to shut out the annoying noises that are made in the hall.
"Zach and Evan have a closed door policy after that girl came in and would not shut up."
"Dude, shut the door, closed-door policy!"