Diving technique that involves a front flip mimed as if you were flipping yourself by pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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Enjoys Peter Kay and always seems to attract the ladies
Enjoys Peter Kay and always seems to attract the ladies
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When you've had too much weed and you start to become part of the couch, chair or whatever you're sitting on.
by BillBobGates August 21, 2019
Get the Bootstrap Bill mug.The Bootstrap Paradox is a theoretical paradox of time travel that occurs when an object or piece of information sent back in time becomes trapped within an infinite cause-effect loop in which the item no longer has a discernible point of origin, and is said to be “uncaused” or “self-created”.
A time traveller who was a big fan of Beethoven goes back in time to 18th century Germany to search for Beethoven for an autograph. Upon reaching the destination, the time traveller cannot find Beethoven anywhere, not even Beethoven's family have heard of him. Not being able to bear the thought of a world without Beethoven's music, the time traveller coincidently has all of Beethoven's sheet music, he copies it up and publishes it. The time traveller has become Beethoven and the timeline resumes as usual, this is what we call a Bootstrap Paradox.
by Driptual November 17, 2019
Get the Bootstrap Paradox mug.Also known as self-capitalization, this is how most start-ups actually capitalize themselves. Sources of bootstrap capital include: soft capital (Mom/Dad/Rich Uncle Buck), home equity loans, supplier credit, consulting, credit cards, retainers, deposits, progress payments, receivables factoring, partners, sponsorships, guarantors, pre-sales, launch clients and more. Bootstrap capital allows the ownership to keep control of their own enterprises and not lose them to VCs and other debt or equity holders.
“Two former students decide to start a home building business. They have no capital so they: 1. find a friendly landowner who allows them to set up shop in a field and pre-sell homes with no money up front to the landowner (who gets paid when the homes sell); 2. they pre-sell 10 homes and take deposits of $20,000 per home so now they have $200,000 in their bank account; 3. they get 90 and 120 day terms from their suppliers so that the suppliers also get paid when the homes sell; 4. they take their 10 Agreements of Purchase and Sale and pledge those to the Bank for a LOC (effectively borrowing their clients' credit scores). After two years, they have $800,000 in the Bank and own 100% of the business. This example demonstrates five sources of bootstrap capital: supplier credit, pre-sales, launch clients, deposits and guarantors.”
by ProfBruce October 31, 2009
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<i>Dynamic system operation in which, once a cycle has been started by external power, working fluid maintains a self-sustaining process.</i>
In other words, a system that, at first, requires a source to start, eventually becoming independent of that source.
<i>Dynamic system operation in which, once a cycle has been started by external power, working fluid maintains a self-sustaining process.</i>
In other words, a system that, at first, requires a source to start, eventually becoming independent of that source.
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