recollect

1. To collect again after an attempted previous collection.
2. To refresh, rejuvenate oneself.

1. That goddamn orphanage keeps calling our house in a futile effort to recollect donations.
2. I hate everything right now; I need to go home, recollect myself, and read the dictionary.

by Dr. Merriam-Webster February 20, 2009

recollectourette's

When you have been trying to remember a fact (name, place, movie, word, etc.) for a long period of time, only to remember the fact (yelling it out involuntarily) in front of a group of people that have no idea what you are talking about.

Guy1: "I'm going to see that new exhibit at the museum today, if you wanna go."

Guy2: "Yeah, that'd be co- Zoolander!"

Guy1: "What??"

Guy2: "Sorry, man. Recollectourette's"

by dyrim2285 May 27, 2008

Erection Recollection

Getting aroused from regular things, because you've associated them with sexual things

Guy 1: "Why do you keep getting hard over the Shantae soundtrack?!"
Guy 2: "You don't wanna know..."
Inside the head of Guy 2: *GODDAMN THESE ERECTION RECOLLECTIONS!*

by ZUCC IN BOLD November 23, 2016

Creative Recollection

The art or morphing fiction into facts for dramatic effect.

His memory of how good that dance was, is just creative recollection.

by Lionel733 February 1, 2021

flawed recollection

flawed recollection. When you reference something from your past memory,

& discover in the future,
that what you distinctly recollect,

is now,
somehow,

a very different set of occurrences.

AKA inaccurate recall

Although Gloria swore on her mother's soul, that she remembered every detail of the day in question, her flawed recollection became crystal clear once other reliable witnesses unanimously presented statements to the contrary of Gloria's account.

by GonnaBeFoggy October 2, 2022