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Trapology

Trapology -noun, plural -gies. 1. the science that deals with the dynamics and history of traps, the ways in which traps are composed, and the physical and metaphysical variations of traps. 2. the study of this science. 3. the features and processes of traps: the trapology of ships in sector 3-7.
I hear Jamestown University has an excellent school of Trapology.
by Admiral Ackbar RPD January 18, 2009
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tautology

saying the same thing twice over in different words
Some people think this is an example of tautology:

It would be easy to find a blind man in a nudist colony because it wouldn't be hard.
by yorrick hunt January 22, 2008
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This one ole skag routinely posts tamponographs on the voyeur site I frequent.
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It's too late tapologize!
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tautology

True by definition, literally "saying the same". Pointlessly obvious. Additional words that add no meaning.
"Either we'll get in trouble, or we won't" is a logical tautology. By including all possibilities the statement must inherently be true.

In "PIN number" the word "number" is a tautology because a PIN is always a number. (At least that's what the N originally stood for — if the term PIN evolved to include letters someday then PIN number would no longer be a tautology.)

In "morning sunrise" the tautology is "morning" because sunrises are a subset of mornings; removing the first word removes no meaning. (The addition of "morning" may be aesthetically more pleasing, in a poem for example, but it remains a logical tautology.)
by Bob Stein October 23, 2008
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tautology

Tautology (n): that which is tautologous, a tautology.
Jack built a brick house out of bricks.
The filing cabinet had inertia, it wouldn't budge.
Go sit in the corner where the walls and floor meet, boy!
The tautologous tautology
by jengajam24 March 10, 2010
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