Someone who is idealistic, and believes in justice, and is on a quest to save the world or someone, no matter how absurd the reality of accomplishing it is.
Eric was a Don Quixote when he thought he could save Gina from drugs. She's been hooked on crack for over a decade, and still hangs around dopeboys. He is out of his head on a lost cause.
by Eric Platt June 29, 2009
Get the Don Quixote mug.Taken from the title character in Cervantes' "Don Quixote." a. tending to take a romanticized view of life. b. tending to act on whims or impulses
by Calire Ilars April 5, 2005
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by Gutbuster69 October 11, 2023
Get the Quintizer mug.The insane belief that you will reform a woman who is a prostitute. Based upon the character Don Quixote created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605. Don Quixote insanely viewed the prostitute Aldonza he meets as the fair princess Dulcinea.
by Liberation Theology August 23, 2019
Get the Don Quixote Syndrome mug.When a man choses to spice up the romance (aka enhance the orgasm) with his woman through the oration of literature.
Yo Bro, I was fuckin' my bitch the other night and she was losing interest, so I read her ass some Shakespeare - before I knew it, she came like she never came before.... all that from a Don Quixote Punch.
by TBoneRaw February 12, 2019
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Get the Annie Quixote mug.In an IT software situation, an extremely irrational and highly-motivated developer, who takes charge of a software project through sheer force of will rather than competence and leads it in a direction which guarantees failure.
Background: The Don Quixote of literature had a tendency to do extraordinarily stupid things without thinking them through. But after exhausting unsuccessful attempts to redirect his ill-fated efforts, people were loathe to try and stop him on account of his being a few cans short of a six pack.
Background: The Don Quixote of literature had a tendency to do extraordinarily stupid things without thinking them through. But after exhausting unsuccessful attempts to redirect his ill-fated efforts, people were loathe to try and stop him on account of his being a few cans short of a six pack.
I am officially referring to my development lead as "Dev Quixote" from this point on. He's got the idea in his head that everything under the sun needs to be containerized and run in Kubernetes; we even have docker-in-docker. On top of that, the larger organization has given up and let him carry on after he convinced management of his "bold" ideas.
by chrod-one November 16, 2020
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