"I'm in the market... as it were" - Cpt. Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
by PianoM0n August 29, 2006

Adj. crazy, strange, unusual, loco.
The real way to spell 'weird'.
Say weird, it souded like WE'RED didn't it??
Often thought of as the original spelling of weird, derived from the latin word "werd" meaning 'the one who cannot think properly'.
The real way to spell 'weird'.
Say weird, it souded like WE'RED didn't it??
Often thought of as the original spelling of weird, derived from the latin word "werd" meaning 'the one who cannot think properly'.
by DCrepresent October 21, 2010

A horrible misspelling of the contraction "we're", in which the omission of a single apostrophe changes the word into a completely different one. Commonly seen in the gaming world and in message boards
Were here! Were queer!
by Penbiks September 13, 2008

While i was sucking him off, as it were...
by jim slim jim jim gousche December 29, 2008

To describe in a "past tense" state.
To say something "Was" something else.
And if you are not careful with your definitions, you could end up making a separate definition for another word because you used mixed up "were" with "where."
To say something "Was" something else.
And if you are not careful with your definitions, you could end up making a separate definition for another word because you used mixed up "were" with "where."
Ghetto person: We was just chillin' at the MAWL!
Grammar Nazi: Don't you mean "Were"?
Ghetto person: You're about to be "Were-Dead"
Grammar Nazi: "Were-Dead"?
Ghetto person: As in "Were-dead, after I killed you and brought you back to life to help me prove my Alibi"
Grammar Nazi: That doesn't make sense."
Ghetto Person: Niga, it makes perfect sense. How can you be ded if you helping me with an alibi to another crime? You is one problem solved!
Grammar Nazi: . . .
Grammar Nazi: Don't you mean "Were"?
Ghetto person: You're about to be "Were-Dead"
Grammar Nazi: "Were-Dead"?
Ghetto person: As in "Were-dead, after I killed you and brought you back to life to help me prove my Alibi"
Grammar Nazi: That doesn't make sense."
Ghetto Person: Niga, it makes perfect sense. How can you be ded if you helping me with an alibi to another crime? You is one problem solved!
Grammar Nazi: . . .
by Tokitokitotokito December 2, 2011

Oops, I just spoke an inadvertent double entendre and I want you to believe that my mind is dirty enough to have realised it but not so dirty as to have done it deliberately
I was standing in a cold draught talking to that sexy new girl from no. 21 and now I'm all stiff. <pause, slight blush> er.. as it were.
by Schmunzelmonster February 18, 2009

This is what unfortunate people add to their sentences when they are desperately trying to convince you that they are either telling the truth or are quite a bit smarter than reality.
Well, when I was last in Italy, we dined at a most excellent little place I found called Nicola's, as it were.
by RosiePotter August 23, 2007
