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Hemingway Defense 

Where the stress and work of artistic expression is used to excuse substance abuse, chemical dependencies and other toxic coping-mechanisms.
"I also employed the world-famous Hemingway Defense... which goes something like this: as a writer, I am a very sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don't give in to their sensitivities. Only sissy-men do that. Therefore I drink. How else can I face the existential horror of it all and continue to work? Besides, come on, I can handle it. A real man always can."
-- Stephen King

Hemingway Boner 

When one endorses a writing style that is characterized by efficiency and understatements.

Ernest Hemingway was the most distinguished writer to use this style, hence the term "Hemingway Boner".
If you have a Hemingway Boner you would probably write something like,

I went to the beach. It was beautiful.
Hemingway Boner by alff September 22, 2011

Hemingway retirement 

A Hemingway retirement is a shotgun in you mouth and then pulling the trigger.

doing a Hemingway 

Traveling and visiting numerous cities around the world, whilst enjoying life; Drinking heavily and having many sexual relationships, hopefully resulting in a novel.
*Guy 1* "Hey, what are you gonna do after High school?"
*Guy 2* "I'm thinking of doing a Hemingway, you know"

Pull a Hemingway 

To become intoxicated before writing a paper in order to make the process more palatable.

Can also be used as a verb, i.e. "to hemingway a paper"
College student #1: "Bro, I'm so not looking forward to writing that paper for my politics class"

College student #2: "I most definitely agree. I would advise you to pull a Hemingway on this one."
Pull a Hemingway by benrh November 25, 2010

Ernest Hemingway 

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

A reported misogynist who enjoyed his liquor. Any degrading act preformed on the female body such as "tea bagging", or "pimp smackin' dat ho" can also be referred to as a "Hemingway".
Johnny: You better check yourself Suzy.

Suzy: I do what I want.

Johnny: (Slaps that Ho)

Ralf: Damn you just Ernest Hemingway'ed the shit out of that bitch.

Suzy: He was right to do so, I should really stop having opinions of my own.

Johnny: You're damn right bitch! (Most likely followed up with another bitch slap.)
Ernest Hemingway by LitteraryGangsta February 21, 2009