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shill bidding 

Most commonly referenced on eBay, shill bidding is when the seller of an item has a third party bid on their item solely with the intent of driving the price up and not for the purpose of buying the product.

Shill bidding is very popular with items such as cars and electronics. Individuals involved in shill bidding can sometimes be spotted on sites such as eBay by looking through a buyers betting history and comparing the number of items bet on compared with the number of items won (typically the number of items won is extremely lower than items bet on).

Normally a shill bidder is either a friend of the seller, a paid associate, or simply just a separate personal account of the seller. Shill bidding can be successful for its purpose due to the fact that if the third party shill bidding is the winner of the auction, he/she will simply be reimbursed by the seller for the purchase price and a re-listing of the item may occur.

Shill bidding can result in legal action if a serious enough infringement and/or a series of infringements occur.
Mike wanted to sell his car on eBay but he worried that the selling price might be lower than what he'd hoped, so he made sure two of his friends were shill bidding on it to help him out.
shill bidding by helpful hand October 19, 2009
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Scrillacon Valley

Another term for Silicon Valley 'cept it includes the money grubbing part of it.
Bob: Where you goin' for the Caesar Chavez holiday?
Steve: I'm goin' to Scrillacon Valley so I can outsource my job to India.
Scrillacon Valley by MistahTom September 6, 2005
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grant schilling 

A 14 year old boy from southern Illinois, famous for his livestreams. He also has a vine and a YouTube channel. His celebrity crush is Andrea russett and he also goes by the name Pablo Obama. Given to him from one of his prank calls on younow. He has green eyes and is extremely hot!
Person 1: OMG Who is Pablo Obama? I've seen that A lot

Person 2: oh that is actually Grant Schilling. It is an inside joke from a prank call from one of his livestreams.
grant schilling by Pablo Obama June 27, 2014

douche-schwillery 

A different kind of douchebaggery, brought on by the introduction of high dosages of alcohol and/or drugs to a subject who already exhibits douchebag-like traits.

Exhibiting the tendencies of both a douchebag and a schwilly kid at the same time. Douche-schwillery is most often observed at large festivals where idiots who can't handle their shit take too many drugs end up harshing the mellow for everyone else.
"Man, that dude is so smacked out on H, he's stumbling around head-butting everyone and mumbling incoherently."

"Yeah man, pure douche-schwillery."
douche-schwillery by areku1 February 15, 2013

Mr. Schell 

The most boring teacher ever. We sit for so long literally my butt falls asleep in class.
Dumb Random kid- "Ugh I have to go to Mr. Schell's now"
Smart Random Kid- " HAHAHAHAHAHA SCHELL?!?!? more like MR. HELL"
Me- "ha, legend"
money,paper,fetti,chedda, phrase coined by E-40
doin dirt fo tha scrilla maine"
scrilla by B sneaky January 24, 2004

the doctor scholl's 

Derived from a situation in which you are cock blocked by an asshole friend. While he is fucking the girl he stole from you, steal his shoes and jerk off on his insoles.
Man, that dick head cock blocked me again!
what'd you do?
I gave him the doctor scholl's!
whats that?
I jizzed all over the inside of his shoes!
I bet he's gellin now!