An item or scheme that rejects conventional wisdom, and utility along with it, as does Lewis Carroll's Bellman, whose map contains no markings whatsoever.
He wanted his guitar playing to be new and different, so he intentionally didn't learn any chords or scales. He just made a bellman's map of it.
by tigersblood July 8, 2009
Get the Bellman's Mapmug. A "thematic map" is a type of map especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. These maps "can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economic, sociological, agricultural, or any other aspects of a city, state, region, nation, or continent"
by Geography potter November 30, 2017
Get the thematic mapmug. 1. The conversational equivalent to the phenomenon of coastline measurements* - getting so bogged down in the details of something that explaining it becomes impossible.
* The closer one looks at a coastline, the longer it gets.
2. Getting repeatedly lost/tangential while speaking and never completing a thought or idea. Often the result of being high.
* The closer one looks at a coastline, the longer it gets.
2. Getting repeatedly lost/tangential while speaking and never completing a thought or idea. Often the result of being high.
1.
Cedric: It was last Tuesday; no I think Wednesday morning at 11:30, well, 11:40; no it was Tuesday because I was wearing my blue shirt-
Bored Colleague: Cedric, you're mapping the coast. Shut up or just tell me what happened.
2.
Dude 1: So, have you thought about what I said last night?
Dude 2: Yeah, you spent 3 hours mapping the coast and I nearly died of boredom. I'm not getting high with you again.
Cedric: It was last Tuesday; no I think Wednesday morning at 11:30, well, 11:40; no it was Tuesday because I was wearing my blue shirt-
Bored Colleague: Cedric, you're mapping the coast. Shut up or just tell me what happened.
2.
Dude 1: So, have you thought about what I said last night?
Dude 2: Yeah, you spent 3 hours mapping the coast and I nearly died of boredom. I'm not getting high with you again.
by Short Circuit August 11, 2010
Get the mapping the coastmug. Map control is a term often used in strategy games, where maintaining control over important parts of the map such as resources is necessary to win, having the map control is being the dominant one on the map.
I was playing some Starcraft but Joe had map control from the start so i ended up loosing because i ran out of resources.
by Rallehop August 12, 2016
Get the map controlmug. Phrase.
verb usuage;
To cut someone's skin a number of times with a knife. The wounds resemble lines on a map.
verb usuage;
To cut someone's skin a number of times with a knife. The wounds resemble lines on a map.
by Teddy Badass June 10, 2017
Get the map upmug. M22 manny on the map is what roadmen 12 year olds put as their caption on their Instagram pics.this indicates they listen to the grime artist bugzy malone and are complete queers who think their “solid”
by Fatnibbaschleep February 7, 2018
Get the manny on the mapmug. by twenty5 July 12, 2004
Get the Map Ditmug.