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parabasic

A licensed Paramedic who has yet to obtain full Paramedic medical control and is stuck in the dead space between EMT Basic and Paramedic.
Hey Parabasic, cycle me a blood pressure while I start an IV. Oh, and get control.
by Papermedic October 17, 2012
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paracord

I make PARACORD bracelets.
by LIONMAKER December 12, 2016
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douche parade

a large gathering of douche bags, all following some pathetic trend. (popped collars for one)
Dude, that club last night, was such a douche parade...
by --Jonathan H. November 19, 2007
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island paradigm

State of mind where one becomes infatuated with another person simply because no one else is available. Out of desperation, one sees the other as the most attractive, most witty, etc, but fails to realize that it is simply by default.
Picture a classroom full of engineering nerds. There's 29 guys and one girl. Regardless of how mediocre that girl looks or how boring she is, all the guys will drool and fight for her attention. However, in a class full of hot girls, no one would even think about her.
All the guys have the island paradigm.
by Daniel Steinfeldt March 25, 2008
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TARPaulin Parachute

A specific type of golden parachute which refers to executives who receive a disproportionately large reward, bonus or bailout despite being painfully incompetent at their job to tragic ends and use said reward in irresponsible ways.

This is most accurately directed at executives in the finance industry who received money from the TARP act intended to save the economy and, instead, used it irresponsibly.

In parts of the US, pronounced "tar-POLE-ee-in bailout."
Man, can you believe those fuckers at Citibank? Got a TARPaulin parachute and pissed it away on interior decorating, hookers and blow. Get the pitchforks and torches, I feel an old-school populist rage coming on.
by ghost_brigade February 8, 2009
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The Facebook Paradigm

The logic which has developed as a direct consequence of the impact facebook and other social networking sites has on society. Meaningful relationships are undermined as friends are reduced to contacts which are to be collected as commodities in the attempt to appear cool.

The pervasiveness of this ideology legitimates the increasing transience of social relationships.
In layman's terms it becomes cool to have a vast pool of contacts requiring too much time and effort to properly maintain. As such the people worthy of an individual's time and effort are determined by the rewards that come with associating with that individual.
I don't care how many facebook friends you have, I don't buy into the facebook paradigm.
by fluvial March 4, 2010
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Get off at Sydney Parade

To pull out of a girl before ejaculation. In direct reference to the Dublin dart stop 'Sydney Parade', the term was popularised by Ross O'Carroll Kelly and one of his novels, 'Should Have Got Off At Sydney Parade'. An Irish phrase.
I have no condoms, what the fuck am I going to do?

You'll just have to get off at Sydney Parade, my man.
by Ross O'Carroll Kelly November 27, 2019
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