Fame or achievement tarnished by either facts (steriods in Barry Bond's case) or sour grapes.
Barry Bond's record is asterisked thanks to his romance with Balco performance-enhancing products.
Don Shula wants the Pat's 19-0 season asterisked becuz they filmed the NY Jets defensive signals at the start of the 2007 season. Like no team has ever done something like that before, lol.
The thing that pisses all gamers off when they get extremely frusterated and start spamming the most vile and horrid combinations of words ever and never are able to express themselves clearly because of these annoying little stars that substitute for the word
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