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Waiting for a short amount of time before pooping to ensure that it is fast and effortless.
Dude, you stink go take a poop. I can't, I am priming it.
Priming by LordSnark March 21, 2005
verb - manifesting implicit memories. Thinking about one thing, then unconsciously linking it to what you need to know. Famously used by Ogi Ogas on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, where he almost won $1,000,000.
The first technique I drew upon was priming. The priming of a memory occurs because of the peculiar "connectionist" neural dynamics of our cortex, where memories are distributed across many regions and neurons. If we can recall any fragment of a pattern, our brains tend to automatically fill in the rest. For example, hearing an old Madonna song may launch a cascade of linked memories: your high school prom where it was the theme song, your poorly tailored prom outfit, your forgotten prom date, the stinging embarrassment when you threw up in the limo.
-- Ogi Ogas

Priming by IanTerry October 29, 2007

Optimus Priming 

While on a gaming console and someone's headset starts to glitch and renders them unable to be understood. Can also be used for the loud screeching, beeping sound a headset can make.
"Thrust, you're optimus priming again!"
Optimus Priming by BRTT March 28, 2014

priming the optimus

Another slang term used for "Masterbation" (choking the chicken, spanking the monkey, etc.) used in the RiffTrax commentary for the film TRANSFORMERS. The term is a referrence to the character Optimus Prime from the film, as well as the T.V. series.
Poor guy, his mom caught him priming the optimus.

Prisingenuity 

A knack for McGyver-like improvisation of tools using the scarce resources available in a prison environment.
"Wow, that's cool how you figured out how to make disposable one-hitters out of ferrules, so we can flush them after each session and not have to keep anything around that could be found if they shake us down."
"Once again, my prisingenuity saves the day."
Prisingenuity by Tochterlieber June 30, 2012

Priming the champagne 

An act of removing the wire cage from a bottle of champagne and shaking it wildly, thus making it ready to fire.
After priming the champagne, Walter started looking for a suitable target, holding the bottle as if it were a shotgun.