tail recursion

If you're not sick of it already, see tail recursion.

Putting things that refer to themselves at the end of a document is the leading cause of tail recursion.

by ke6isf October 20, 2004

recurve

To curve or bend back or backward.

Deer taken with a straight limb bow, recurve bow or compound bow will be registered as taken with a vertical bow.

by Erosin March 9, 2015

Recursion

see recursion

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion

by MemeLord🙃 January 6, 2020

family recursion

Inbreeding, incest, or other means of procreation within ones own family.

Jeff from Arkansas has some serious cases of family recursion going on.

You slept with your cousin? Ew, no family recursion!

by Cranberrytuna October 21, 2007

recursively butthurt

recursively butthurt: Someone who is butthurt about the word butthurt, creating a recursion.

It can go up another level, in which it would be the getting butthurt at the above definition, complexity increases by O(n^2)

Billy1: The word butthurt is used by people as a cop out. Saying it is a sin.
Billy2: No! You can't imply things with the definition of a word, that's too modern for me. You are copping out.

They both copped out, both being recursively butthurt.

by abstractcondolences July 19, 2022

Recursively Reinforced Racism

Often referred to as 'Triple R', this is a feedback loop where people — intentionally or not — repeat and strengthen racist or stereotypical behavior and beliefs. Think of it like racism on autopilot: it keeps recycling through media, culture, schools, and families, getting stronger each time it's unchecked.
It shows up a lot in younger generations (thanks, internet), but older folks aren’t off the hook — especially those who grew up recursively reinforced racism or contributed to it. Either way, it’s a negative loop that feeds itself like a bad algorithm trained on garbage data

Being Black in an all-white high school, I dealt with my fair share of racism. Looking back, I realize a lot of those kids were surrounded by recursively reinforced racism — mostly passed down from their parents.

by TheRealSnippy April 6, 2025

recursively-chained doohs

Defined as "Dooh's goes dooh's goes dooh's goes dooh's goes...", a recursive chain of doohs represents a repeated exclamation of stupidity, often indicating that something is awry.

Bleebum: Rory, in the context of recursively-chained doohs, what does dooh go?
Rory: Dooh's goes dooh's goes dooh's goes dooh's goes dooh.

by Extremityman August 26, 2025