I'm not touching that with a 20 foot pole and a 40 foot extension

A phrase strongly stating that you do not wish, nor desire to oblige the current situation that is presented towards you.

Cult Leader: hey man, can you video tape me in my basement with my uhhh.. nephew?
Man: I'm not touching that with a 20 foot pole and a 40 foot extension

by bulletface April 20, 2015

regular expression

A text string pattern matching mechanism. Usually applied to individual lines of text, such as from a simple text file, where the regular expression (sometimes abbreviated as RE) pattern can be used to precisely specify which lines ought to match and which shouldn't. The more complicated REs may look very confusing to people who don't know them, as they look more like a random string of letters and other characters without any obvious meaning.

Commonly they're enclosed between slashes (/like this/), because that's how they were used in many ancient Unix tools. They can also be used for text substitution, for example with the s/ construct. A common operator specifying that a RE will follow is the tilde (~).

The Perl language makes heavy use of regular expressions, and the grep tool also searches by REs. SED and AWK are some older tools also using REs.

REs come in two forms: Basic REs and Extended REs, varying slightly in syntax and possible contructs. Perl extens the Extended REs even further and has defined the standard "Perl Compatible REs" (PCRE).

"some example string" =~ /^s*.*e+.*(?:x.* )?.*?g$/
result: 1 (because the regular expression between the // matches the string)

by DJMoses May 27, 2009

Excelsior

In Star Trek, the Transwarp Testbed cruiser commanded by Captain Sulu. Although the Transwarp project itself was a Failure, The Excelsior became one of the most widely used ships in starfleet.

The USS Excelsior was Capt. Hikaru Sulu's first command.

by Romulus December 27, 2004

Expressionate

To be both expressive and passionate at the same time.

She was very expressionate when she argued with her husband.

by Margy737 September 1, 2010

excessive clocking

To keep looking at the clock in nervous situations.

Daquan has been known for excessive Clocking when his skank ass bitch ass hoe Laquifa be fighting with him.

Laquifa:
"Who's Jenelle?!?
Daquan:
*excessive clocking*
Laquifa:
"I'm takin yo son and movin out bitch"
Daquan:
"What son?"

by Burkblue April 16, 2015

Expressionable

Of, or relating to, the outward display of expression or emotion. Specifically when it proves Mike wrong.

Alphonso, not being very expressionable, easily goes unnoticed.

by BHoudini2 March 25, 2020

Expressionate

Being able to express your feelings in your face extremely well

My face is really expressionate

by Scary turtle May 22, 2020