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amber lamps

a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital
Oh, you leakin'.
Call da amber lamps!
by Featherlight910 February 16, 2010
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Soggy Lampshade

(noun) One who is useless beyond compare. Also, they don't really brighten the situation.
Guy 1: i kinda broke your TV.
Guy 2: You can't do anything right!
Guy 1: It was a bad one anyway.
Guy 2: That doesn't make it better. You're such a soggy lampshade!
by JDawgmania2014 May 24, 2014
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amber lamps

A mispronounced version of "ambulance" following the AC Transit bus fight.
by precure787 April 11, 2017
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Lampis

Lampis is the best greek name. He fucks you every night and you can find his balls if you search very deeply in your ass.
Lampis' dick is ** cm
by Θεμιφόνης ο Κύων October 29, 2019
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Lampshade

Adjective

A word used for situations in media- mostly in comics and television- where the concerns, criticisms and arguments of the audience are answered in the text itself to assuage any disbelief and therefore frustration a reader or viewer might possess. By underscoring points of possible contention, usually humorously, the suspension of disbelief is retained.

Often used to account for implausible developments, ridiculous motivations, bizarre twists and illogical situations, a lampshade can also cover obviously cribbed plot elements by having the author acknowledge through a character that "This is just like..."

A lampshade can be used to explain threads that may have lain dormant, and often prods at the fourth wall by having characters address the audience, or realities outside their own existence.

Also known as Spotlighting, sometimes as 'Cousin Larry Trick'. See TVTropes for more information.
GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse?
ARTHUR: Yes!
GUARD #1: You're using coconuts!
ARTHUR: What?
GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.
-- Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, to lampshade the fact that production could not afford horses for a medieval movie.

"...If you're wondering how he eats and breathes, and other science facts; Just repeat to yourself it's just a show, you should really just relax..."
--From the theme song to Mystery Science Theater 3000, effectively ironing over the pesky scientific impossibilities.
by MomoiroNoMegane October 8, 2009
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Amber Lamps

Epic Beard Man done bust up my face. Bring the Amber Lamps.
by AthePG February 17, 2010
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Human Lampshade

The act of inserting a wire up the ass of someone who has recently hung them self, to the connect to a light bulb in the mouth - acting as a human lampshade,
"Hey did you hear that Spencer hung himself last night?"

"Yea that sucks, but he'd want us to turn him into a Human Lampshade"
by BigApplez June 16, 2015
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