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When you add words to a sentence to extend it.
1. Welcome to the hotel!
2. I would like to welcome you to a temporary residence.
3. I, the human who stands in this position right here would like to welcome you. In doing so, i am allowing you to stay in this residence under a specified payment plan. At some point of your residence you have to exit because this is only a temporary stay.

And that is what verbose is.
Verbose by Ipod 2.gen January 5, 2022

Verbose boot

1. When a Mac (or Linux) user boots his/her computer in verbose boot mode. Like iDevice verbosity, except a bit less-filled with crap on the screen, and more juicy info. Mac users, hold down Command (/Apple) + V, Linux users, remove the -splash flag from your kernel boot string.(through the bootloader)

2. When after you've jailbroken (See jailbreaking your iDevice you use redsn0w to set it to verbose boot, so you can watch your iDevice load all it's settings and fuctions while it loads. Or, for debugging if something goes wrong and it won't boot. Highly useful.

Quite amusing, or even scary at times for friends.
Person 1: *walks into room and sees Person 2's Mac verbose booting*
Person 1: Whoah wtf omg what happened to your computer!?
Person 2: It's a verbose boot.

-- Example #2 --

Apple Customer *has device jailbroken*
Apple Store Rep: ..Ok, so what's wrong with it?
Apple Customer: It won't boot
Apple Rep: Well then let me take a look at it. *Presses power button and screen is filled with verbose text*
Apple Rep *gives the customer a weird expression* o_O
Verbose boot by The Macbroker August 3, 2011

Verbose Retardation

n. The case in which you are not aware of what the fuck is happening due to people using too big of words.
I experienced a total case of verbose retardation during that college lecture

increasingly verbose meme

A type of multi-frame image in which a lackluster or overused meme is replicated with poorer graphical fidelity but increased verbosity successive times to the point where it is difficult to understand the meme without the original context. Also called 'meme corruption' or 'progressively verbose meme'.
Captions of an increasingly verbose meme:

Frame 1: It's high noon

Frame 2: The time is 12pm.

Frame 3: The grandfather clock currently displays a reading of twelve o'clock post meridian.

Frame 4: It has become increasingly apparent to me that due to the rotation of Earth relative to the Sun, the current "time" as defined by Ancient Egyptians via the decan system is denoted by the numerical value "twelve" of the clock, signalling that the Sun is at the highest point in the sky.

Gabriella Verbose 

A female who never stops talking, or says in a hundred words what can be said in ten.

This could be a friend, co-worker, partner, etc., who incorrectly thinks the more she says, the smarter she sounds.

She has no receptors to see how boring, offensive, rude, stupid, uninformed she really is.
Most-evident during presentation and conference calls.

Origin: Gabriella (meaning 'gabby' or talkative) Verbose (meaning the same thing, as in redundant).

Male version of Bob Loblaw.
Didn't know that 'Gabriella Verbose' was heading up today's meeting. We should have blocked out an hour instead of 15 minutes.

Sat next to Gabriella Verbose on a plane last week. After an hour of incessant diatribes about her kids, pets, job and crossfit, I tried to puncture my eardrums by folding one of my business cards into a spike.

terminal verbosity 

N. Talking so much or for so long it could be fatal to anyone within earshot.
I almost died of terminal verbosity listening to Suzie talk about her friggin cat.