Excellent question!

It's a praise that you receive from a teacher after you ask a question which he doesn't know how to answer, but he's too embarrassed to admit it.

Student: Teacher, how do you say 'lock, stock and barrel' in Spanish?
Teacher: Excellent question! It's a very interesting expression! For your homework, you'll have to look it up.

by Meager Beaver January 19, 2009

Excaliburate

To take something humble and make it awesome.

"My old computer was lame so I excaliburated it by adding more ram and a better video card."

"I plan to excaliburate my car as soon as I get a little bit of extra cash."

by Andrew Tolson April 23, 2006

Excellence

A perfect example of newspeak, commonly found in the US federal government and frequently found in the same sentence as 'diversity'. Excellence is an intangible noun derived in recent decades from an adjective meaning anything that is not directly in opposition to a mission statement. Basically it is supposed to mean 'good-ness', but better than good, really good. But without any increase in quality of work to back it up. So it can be anything from poor to mediocre to decent to great to outstanding.

In all concrete reality, excellence means nothing, but you'll see it everywhere to describe everything.

"She has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of excellence while serving her country during the difficult circumstances administering corrections at Abu Ghraib prison"

"At the Library of Congress we value diversity and excellence, while fostering a compassionate environment of professionals"

"Leadership excellence"

"An environment of excellence"

"Tools of excellence"

by DeskJockey1 May 19, 2010

exclaimation point

The exclaimation point is the dot on the bottom of an exclaimation mark.

Always remember to cross your t's, dot your i's and exclaimation points

by De'e August 19, 2006

Black excellence

Someone that is black and portrays great qualities and abilities that make the black community proud

LJ is the perfect example of black excellence because he's going to Harvard!

by kyn4thewin January 3, 2017

American Exceptionalism

A patriotism-based political belief that states that the United States of America is unique or exceptional when compared with the historical development of other countries, and is thus considered better than other countries regardless of context.

More extreme cases of this have led to white-washing of historical events, propaganda and violation of international law under the pretense that "it's not a crime when America does it."

America's greatness, America's exceptional greatness, is not based on that fact that we are the most powerful, most prosperous - and most generous - nation on earth. Rather, those things are the result of American Exceptionalism.
-- Newt Gingrich

by The Logical Fallacy September 23, 2016

Excellent

Mr Burns of the Simpsons favourite expression when devising an evil scheme. Usually uttered whilst tenting his fingers.

Mr Burns "Smithers have the hounds been released?"
Smithers "Yes sir"
Mr Burns "Excellent"

by RayzorSharp November 5, 2007