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Skeletons in the closet

Secrets and several other past memories that you prefer not to talk about with anyone else. This can range from one-night stands to betraying a best friend to as much as killing someone. However, "skeletal" moments don't just have to do with only dark pasts. It can also be about embarrassing moments you've had that you simply feel too awful to speak of.
Someone with barely any or no skeletons in the closet can make it far in a large corporation.

Being married has taught me that if I don't clean up the skeletons in the closet sooner than I should can have abrupt consequences.
by josalv3 August 18, 2009
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Closet Pooper

A person who is scared to poop in a public washroom while other people are in it. This person will wait quietly and patiently in their stall until every last person has left before he/she will begin to poop.
Sara ran to the bathroom to go number two, unfortunately for her there were three other women in the washroom and Sara was a closet pooper.
by Muckers August 8, 2006
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come out of the closet

1) to admit the fact that one is sexually attracted members of his or her own gender.
2) to exit a small storage space which generally holds clothes and other items.
Ryan came out of the closet wearing his mom's pink dress just as his parents walked through the door. At that point he realized he might as well just come out of the closet.
by Nick D November 17, 2003
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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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in the closet

Someone who has a different orientation or gender identity than typical and has not yet shared with the rest of the world
Jack was in the closet about being bisexual.
by Lexus14blacklist December 1, 2015
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Dirt Clod

(n) - A female one pursues at a club, bar, and or post office etc. with the intent of sexual pleasure.
“Yo - how’s COVID been treating you?” “Man - I’ve been tossing dirt clods like it's my fucking job.”
by DirtClodLife October 5, 2020
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