The act of throwing someone out of a window. It was repurposed for discussion among intellectual circles to refer to cases in history in which a leader or influential individual was forcefully deposed from power and replaced by the person who deposed them. Originally repurposed due to the creation of the French First Republic, when many Jacobin loyalists (radical anti-monarchists) threw sympathisers of constitutional monarchy (moderate revolutionary) out of windows to fill their representative seats with other Jacobin loyalists.
by Workaholics-Anonymous July 24, 2020
Get the Defenestrationmug. The action of throwing someone out of a window; the action of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority. It’s Latin and is devised by putting “de-” (down from) with “fenestra” (window).
That defenestration was SICKKKKK
by King of JamaicanDefinitions 2 November 23, 2020
Get the Defenestrationmug. "hey dom!"
"yeah whats up!"
"can you come up to the window please?!"
"sure, what do you n.... AGHHH WTF ARE YOU DOING?!?!?"
"IM DOING *DEFENESTRATION* NOW GET THE FUCK OUT THE BLOODY WINDOW!!!!"
"WHAT THE FUUUUUUUuuuuuuuu...... *splat*"
"yeah whats up!"
"can you come up to the window please?!"
"sure, what do you n.... AGHHH WTF ARE YOU DOING?!?!?"
"IM DOING *DEFENESTRATION* NOW GET THE FUCK OUT THE BLOODY WINDOW!!!!"
"WHAT THE FUUUUUUUuuuuuuuu...... *splat*"
by PowerPointPresentation November 10, 2021
Get the defenestrationmug. by deathbydick September 24, 2020
Get the Defenestratemug. *In EA Headquarters*
Boss: Guys we need more ways to get more money from gamers, any ideas?
Employee 1: Charge them more on buying the game and in-game products!
Employee 2: Release a new FIFA game that is exactly the same as the last one!
Employee 3: Stop making high-price crappy games and instead make good games that attract people to buy them
Boss: *insert triggered face*
Employee 3: :I
*Employee 3 gets defenestrated*
Boss: Guys we need more ways to get more money from gamers, any ideas?
Employee 1: Charge them more on buying the game and in-game products!
Employee 2: Release a new FIFA game that is exactly the same as the last one!
Employee 3: Stop making high-price crappy games and instead make good games that attract people to buy them
Boss: *insert triggered face*
Employee 3: :I
*Employee 3 gets defenestrated*
by Webbo10101 February 8, 2021
Get the defenestratemug. When the Overton Window shifts around people that don't change themselves yet end up under different labels afterwards after being thrown out/defenestrated of the original windowframe.
Changing labels without changing those in question in a way similar to the Red Queen Theory where someone needs to keep running in order to stay in the same spot. The running here would be chasing after the shifting Overton Window.
Changing labels without changing those in question in a way similar to the Red Queen Theory where someone needs to keep running in order to stay in the same spot. The running here would be chasing after the shifting Overton Window.
Overton Defenestration occurs when the window throws you out itself while you do nothing in response to the Overton Window shifting around you.
"I was a liberal by the 1990's definition. I guess I still am. My positions haven't changed all that much, but the goalposts have been moved so far that I don't fit in anywhere anymore."
"I was a liberal by the 1990's definition. I guess I still am. My positions haven't changed all that much, but the goalposts have been moved so far that I don't fit in anywhere anymore."
by Devidose July 12, 2021
Get the Overton Defenestrationmug. Thot: Suck me off daddy
You: No
Thot: Okay
You: I will FUCKING defenestrate you bitch.
Thot: Oh no
You: Defenestrates using Defenestration *
Thot: SCREAMS * AHHHHH* bang *
You: No
Thot: Okay
You: I will FUCKING defenestrate you bitch.
Thot: Oh no
You: Defenestrates using Defenestration *
Thot: SCREAMS * AHHHHH* bang *
by ShibeComms November 10, 2021
Get the Defenestrationmug.