When a person's lips grant a facial expression of sadness when at rest or even when expressing joy. The lips fail to reach a horizontal orientation even when the person is attempting to smile.
Husband: Your mother looks looks so pissed off right now.
Wife: Nope, she is smiling.
Husband: Yeah, but she has a huge frown; it looks like an upside down U, like the old dude in Up.
Wife: Oh, that's because hse has the mother-in-law's contracture.
Wife: Nope, she is smiling.
Husband: Yeah, but she has a huge frown; it looks like an upside down U, like the old dude in Up.
Wife: Oh, that's because hse has the mother-in-law's contracture.
by MILFwithMILcontracture January 11, 2011
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May also apply to catching someone doing something inappropriate in public, in which both parties act like nothing happened and/or nothing was seen.
May also apply to catching someone doing something inappropriate in public, in which both parties act like nothing happened and/or nothing was seen.
I went into the bathroom to wash my hands just as David was flushing the toilet. His shit stunk so bad, it was all I could think about. I tried to hold my breath and ignore it as the social contract keeps me from acknowledging the fact that his shit smell was suffocating me.
by YouStinkLikeShit January 29, 2012
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The worldwide financial crisis of the late 2000s that started with widespread the American subprime mortgage defaults and led to the collapse of many overleveraged Wall Street firms such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. The resultant recession has been deep and both monetary and fiscal policy have taken unprecedented steps in order to curtail its negative impact in efforts to prevent the credit markets from freezing and to stimulate spending.
Everyone keeps comparing the Second Great Contraction to the Great Depression, but only time will tell how similar they truly are.
by berryfrusion June 14, 2009
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2. any illegal or unethical arrangement
professional criminal
2. any illegal or unethical arrangement
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-on the completion of a particular task;
-on the occurrence or non-occurrence of any other specific event other than the attainment of retiring age
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