when you want to take credit for something you already knew was done before you came up with it or claiming that someone (usually well known) stole your idea before you could get around to it.
"These people keep pre-stealing my ideas, using them, and making millions!"
"Anytime you hear someone say 'hey that's show business' keep in mind I created that"- me
"you mean a phrase i've heard all my life and I'm 15 years older than you?"- boss
"yeah, they pre-stole that from me"
"I had this really great idea for a story about two teenagers that fall in love but their families hate one another and it ended tragically but then I found Shakespeare pre-stole my idea"
"Anytime you hear someone say 'hey that's show business' keep in mind I created that"- me
"you mean a phrase i've heard all my life and I'm 15 years older than you?"- boss
"yeah, they pre-stole that from me"
"I had this really great idea for a story about two teenagers that fall in love but their families hate one another and it ended tragically but then I found Shakespeare pre-stole my idea"
by Michael Goulis April 27, 2008
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A term used by improvisers (those who perfrom improv/improvisation), to describe the act of improvising material at any time prior to the actual performance (bad), or planning how the performance of improvised material plays out (worse). In either case, pre-prov-ing (pre-provving?) renders the pre-prov-ed (pre-provved?) material un-improvisable, and thus null, void, and unapproachable to any good sport of a good improviser. Improv practice is intentional pre-prov, in order to practice skills and techniques. When just joking around, yes, unintentional pre-prov happens, and though often funny, may present a major bummer to any good sport of a good improviser. Though often adaptable to create quality, finalized, REHEARSED material (i.e., a practiced comedy sketch, a polished song), what is pre-prov-ed/pre-provved can never be performed as true improv (without involving memory loss, that is).
Note: What one performer pre-provs may still be original to another, and still qualify as improv, providing that the second performer did not know of the first's pre-prov bummer.
A term used by improvisers (those who perfrom improv/improvisation), to describe the act of improvising material at any time prior to the actual performance (bad), or planning how the performance of improvised material plays out (worse). In either case, pre-prov-ing (pre-provving?) renders the pre-prov-ed (pre-provved?) material un-improvisable, and thus null, void, and unapproachable to any good sport of a good improviser. Improv practice is intentional pre-prov, in order to practice skills and techniques. When just joking around, yes, unintentional pre-prov happens, and though often funny, may present a major bummer to any good sport of a good improviser. Though often adaptable to create quality, finalized, REHEARSED material (i.e., a practiced comedy sketch, a polished song), what is pre-prov-ed/pre-provved can never be performed as true improv (without involving memory loss, that is).
Note: What one performer pre-provs may still be original to another, and still qualify as improv, providing that the second performer did not know of the first's pre-prov bummer.
Y'know those U-shaped neck pillows? They're so funny. Two or three separate times my mom and I have gone into hard-core Object Freeze using them - we must have come up with close to 30 different ideas. But, to me it's such a bummer because now, I know that just about everything I can think up for those U-shaped neck pillows is pre-prov and not true improv.
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The emergence of pre-er modernism was so radical that it caused a poop-flinging war that has raged through the ages and now goes by the name "philosophy".
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