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Cosette

An incredibly awesome girl. If you ever meet one in your life its a good idea to start talking to her because she's the most fun you'll ever have. Gets all your nerdy references and is more than capable of whipping up her own. really smart and nice. Has the most beautiful eyes in the world, they're like liquid gold.
"Hey this new girl Cosette just showed up in my class"

"Really man, awesome! Try to get her number, she's probably awesome!"
by ahorsenamedjeff December 31, 2013
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Closeted Republican

A self-proclaimed democrat or liberal who's actions and opinions more closely resemble a republican or conservative. Also called a fashionable liberal.
He's such a closeted Republican. He claims to be against the death penalty but joined up on that band wagon lynch mob without a second thought.
by Ford Leiden December 28, 2009
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Closed book

Someone who doesn't say much about themselves, no one really knows anything about their past, hobbies, or likes/dislikes.
A closed book is sometimes mistakenly defined as someone with "trust issues".
Person 1: How much do you know about her?
Person 2: Not much. She's a closed book, so she doesn't share much about her.
by Cynedia August 8, 2016
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close your eyes and think of England

An expression used in the United Kingdom referring to unwanted sexual intercourse. Usually from ones spouse.
Brenda: I hate having sex with George
Lucy: Just close your eyes and think of England
by Alia Joanne July 13, 2007
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Cosette

A character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Cosette is the illigitimate daughter of Fantine, who had to leave her in the care of the Thénardier family while she worked to support Cosette. Unknown to the illiterate Fantine, the sociopathically cruel Thénardier family abuse the little girl and make false claims about her health so that Fantine will send more money to them. The money is then used for their own expenses and to spoil their own daughters, Eponine and Azelma, while Cosette is treated as a virtual slave... until Fantine's death, when her former boss, Jean Valjean, comes to rescue Cosette, bribing the ruthless Thénardiers to let her go. From there, Jean Valjean and Cosette escape to Paris.

Nine years later, at age seventeen, Cosette is a beautiful, well-bred young woman and doted on by Papa Valjean. Trouble begins when she runs into Marius Pontmercy, a young nobleman and student, and they fall in love. Valjean, worried about his discovery by Javert and about his adoptive daughter's safety, tries to thwart the budding love affair until he realizes that she's no longer a little girl and he has to let her go; out of love for her, he saves a wounded Marius from the barricade. She and Marius eventually marry before Valjean dies, leaving his life story to her.
Cosette's character is much stronger in the book and the depth of her romance with Marius a major emotional focus while Eponine is a peripheral character, although no less sad and pitiful.

Cosette is the peripheral character in the musical, almost one-dimensional while Eponine's presence is much stronger and shares the pathos with Fantine.
by Lorelili July 27, 2011
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Close of Play

Increasingly common on business bullshit bingo cards the English-speaking world over, 'close of play' is the latest way to say '5.30', presumably employed by people a) to make the working day seem more fun, by describing it as 'play' b) because they are cunts.

Presumably, like the equally execrable 'touch base', the expression originated in a shit American sport.
So where are we gonna be by close of play?

We're not playing. I'm working. You're talking like a prick.

Ok, I need to touch base with the client before close of play.

Oh right.
by BobbyBarcode October 22, 2012
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Spongebob Close-up

A technique used in various cartoons in which the camera zooms into a character's face revealing disgusting or grotesque features (ex. bloodshot eyes, nosehairs, pimples, etc.) that usually are not noticed when the camera is at a certain distance from the character. Commonly used in the show "Spongebob Squarepants".
Spongebob: Hey Squidward, has my Acne Cream worked yet?

Viewer 1: Get ready for a Spongebob Close-up, dude!

(T.V. zooms into a still frame revealing Spongbob's ghastly outbreak)

Viewer 2: Ughghgh!
by The Ball That Never Descended October 16, 2008
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