Thinkering

Getting down on one knee, curling one's wrist to one's chin, and looking up, mimicking the pose of Auguste Rodin's classic sculpture "The Thinker".

(Created by Dave Silverman, reported by Staks Rosch, "Thinkering: The atheist answer to Tebowing", Dec. 30, 2011, examiner.com)

In response to the fundamentalist craze of Tebowing, American Atheists President Dave Silverman has come up with an atheist version called "Thinkering."
Someone commented that the pose looked too similar to Tebowing, to which Silverman responded: "That's the point. The difference is we don't bow our heads in blind submission, rather we consider and conclude for ourselves."

by Grinning Cat March 10, 2012

Thinkering

A portmanteau of "thinking" and "tinkering". Means to think about something by tinkering with objects relating to the problem under consideration. Usually unguided, exploratory and individual, often a very good way to explore aspects of difficult problems or to find solutions where none are obvious. In other words, an active form of thinking.

Akin to solving a puzzle (like a rubiks cube) by trying to solve it rather than just sitting and staring at it.

Bob is thinkering again, wonder if he'll finally figure out how to get that perpetual motion machine back together again?

by ithacanz October 1, 2010

over-chickening

over producing of chickens

we never hear news reports dealing with over-chickening.

by Makootz May 31, 2007

thicking

Thrusting and licking with one's tongue all at the same time

After their date night, Brian did a lot of thicking.

by Puntmuffer November 14, 2019

Chickening

stems from the

Verb -to chicken.

It occurs when you throw chicken, preferably fried, at pedestrians on the side of the street from a moving vehicle.

Did you see those guys chickening the homeless?

Yeah but who cares?

by Skttlz313 December 22, 2010

Chickening

The process of reaching into a pool of grease and pulling out a piece of chicken, akin to fishing; only involving prey which is already dead and not having to wait five hours for some activity. Usually occurs when eating KFC, or eating some similar type of fast food in the form of pieces of chicken drowning in grease.

Bob went chickening in the KFC bag, as he was hungry

by Ogan the Chosen One October 21, 2009

Chickening

The moment of extreme ecstasy experienced after the first few bites of long awaited fried chicken.

After battling my way through the masses of zombies, nearly losing my life to the eternal darkness of ghouldom countless times among the tide of grabbing wretched hands, I finally made it to the restaurant. True, the chilled beer quenched my thirst as I knew it would. But it wasn't until I felt the Chickening, that I knew that it was all worth it.

by Dante Dono May 7, 2007