A city in Mali, although it usually just refers to the middle of nowhere, or somewhere very far away.
"That's, like, all the way in Timbuktu!"
by CoolCrafter February 8, 2021
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Besides pretending to save the world, THIMUN participants are also notorious for taking advantage of the drinking age (16) and legal marijuana in Holland. Imagine 5000 teenagers from over 200 countries taking over one of the greatest cities ever for one week.
To any student who has ever walked the halls of diplomacy, passed a resolution, flirted with their commission chair, frozen their ass off waiting at the tram stop in Centrum, boozed like crazy five nights in a row, memorized the locations of every coffee shop in the city, tried to pawn their THIMUN badge for another drink, or staggered into the lobby of a hotel with a ridiculously long Dutch name desperate to make curfew...
put your hands up for Den Haag. x
Besides pretending to save the world, THIMUN participants are also notorious for taking advantage of the drinking age (16) and legal marijuana in Holland. Imagine 5000 teenagers from over 200 countries taking over one of the greatest cities ever for one week.
To any student who has ever walked the halls of diplomacy, passed a resolution, flirted with their commission chair, frozen their ass off waiting at the tram stop in Centrum, boozed like crazy five nights in a row, memorized the locations of every coffee shop in the city, tried to pawn their THIMUN badge for another drink, or staggered into the lobby of a hotel with a ridiculously long Dutch name desperate to make curfew...
put your hands up for Den Haag. x
by loverrrgirl December 13, 2008
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1.Deserved approval recieved from one's peers for an action, idea, or creation.
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(noun) A city in the West African nation of Mali, known for its extreme inaccessibility. Now it is used to mean any extremely distant and inaccessible location.
We used to have each other over for dinner on a regular basis, but then she moved out to Timbuktu, and we haven't done it since.
by Moshe Jacobson November 9, 2004
Get the Timbuktu mug.thimble rigger: One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain. 1. Also known as a shell game: A game, usually involving gambling, in which a person hides a small object underneath one of three nutshells, thimbles, or cups, then shuffles them about on a flat surface while spectators try to guess the final location of the object. Also called thimblerig. 2. A fraud or deception perpetrated by shifting conspicuous things to hide something else.
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