kavanaughing

To sneer angrily and bluster as a defense to an accusation for which you are guilty. To raise your voice, contort your face, and feign indignation as a tactic to scare an accuser in hopes to distract the truth. Usually enacted by privileged white men.

Upon realizing that he was about to lose his clients case, the lawyer tried kavanaughing his way through his final argument.

by Aeiuo-123 February 13, 2021

Kavanaugh Stop

When US law enforcement uses skin color as the legal basis to detain and demand citizenship papers from anyone out in public. The term was coined after Justice Kavanaugh wrote a poorly reasoned majority opinion for the Noem v. Perdomo application for stay, in which the US Supreme Court conservative majority decided that the use of racism to detain people was likely not illegal and that being detained or arrested for not looking American (white) was only a minor inconvenience.

My neighbor got swept up in a Kavanaugh Stop. She told the Ice agent that she was a US citizen and her last name was Greeley, but he just told her "she didn't look like a Greeley" and he was going to detain her overnight if she couldn't provide her papers.

by dog_fishing October 14, 2025

A kavanaugh

Killing a family with your vehicle, usually including a 6 month old child

Wanna go out and get wasted and pull a kavanaugh

by kYsPhGt April 28, 2019

The Kavanaugh Standard

This refers to the fact that most U.S. citizens who vote for judges do not do research the candidates and instead choose based on superficial criteria. E.g. can they boof?

How did you pick judges when you voted yesterday?
I kinda just picked names that didnt sound like a lady or a foreigner.
Ahh...the Kavanaugh standard

by Urban cowboy 6969 July 27, 2023

Kavanaugh

When someone on a video chat flushes the toilet but doesn't own up to it. He does like his beer...

"He totally Kavanaughed on the Zoom call the other day and the boss was NOT happy."

"Sorry I didn't flush, but you were on that FaceTime with your mom and I didn't want to Kavanaugh you."

by Dwight Guy May 23, 2020