merit-based

"Merit-based" immigration system

Not too dark, way much lighter. More like Norway, less like Africa

Trump wants a "merit-based" immigration system.

by Viva la resistance January 16, 2018

Based

Confidently having an opinion or view that is widely considered unacceptable.

"He said women belong in the kitchen, how based."

"You wouldn't date a black person? Wow, you're based."

by Womantis January 21, 2022

Based

Slang: Agreement with a regressive opinion to try to fit in with a crowd. Could be read as short for 'Based on conformity'. The polar opposite of punk.

May have had a different slang definition originally, but this has what it has become through online usage.

Punk:

Living your life your own way giving no fucks what people think = That's punk.

"Based":
Moron 1: ""Hitler had the right idea""

Moron 2: "That's based, bro."

by ShadowBlaze January 9, 2023

86th base

swimming through a whales colon while having a threesome with five one hundred year olds and somehow surviving

Guy 1: yo, i finaly got to 86th base
Guy 2: you sick fuck...

by touchyourselfnow September 11, 2025

based

Mid or Bad

Yo thats based

by IU3h4wpieghvoijwr June 26, 2022

based

politically admirable or morally righteous. opposite of debased

*authoritarian left says something based*
libertarian right: "⸘wtf auth left based‽"

by Brawlio January 18, 2024

Results-Based Investment

Abbreviated: R.B.I.; An approach to investing where an individual offers to invest, or donate, money, resources, and or provide information to a business or organization, but before the organization can get anything from the investor, they are given some objectives by the potential investor who expects them to make significant progress towards completing them and or complete some of them by a certain point in time before they are willing to invest or donate in their organization or business

Results-Based Investment can be a very useful tool for various individuals and or organizations working to promote social change in society, because it allows them to pressure certain businesses and organizations into taking certain stances on specific social issues and or change policies that are harmful and or unreasonably discriminatory against certain populations.

by Vanguard 1998 March 8, 2021