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patience table

The ledge at a window or counter of a booth where customers (or similar) are separated by a partial wall from cashiers (or similar). It is a place where objects (such as money or credits cards) can be placed on while receiving service.

Patience tables are generally found in places including banks, pharmacies, ticket booths, and snack bars.

The name "patience table" is given because people must wait patiently behind them.
Customers inside the bank place their checks and documents on a patience table while the tellers do their duties.

When getting your medicine refilled at the phamacy, you place your prescription on the patience table.

There is a patience table at the entrance to the theater where tickets are sold.

The vendor places the beverages on the patience table for the customer to pick up after they are purchased.
by Bed time April 27, 2010
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running the table

When you (and possibly a partner) simply cannot be beat in the game of beer pong. Typically this is only acknowledged after 5+ games have been played (in a row) and won.
Guy #1: "Dude, have you seen Darrell and Ty tonight?

Guy #2: "Hell ya man! They are definitely running the table!"
by DerMin July 21, 2011
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under the table

Those street vendors are selling DVDs of recent movies under the table.
by pentozali August 4, 2007
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Rectangle Table Kids

This is yet another word that has originated from Hoffman Estates High School. If you enter the cafeteria you first see circle tables and further back are the rectangle tables. This word describes the people who sit here.

1. The very first row of rectangle tables are usually where your nobodies, outcasts, or wannabe circle table kids sit.

2. The rectangle tables to the far right are where your "ghetto" black people, Hispanic, and a few select white people sit. Most of the fights happen here and you can usually see people either: braiding hair, singing off key, dancing ridiculously, or just talking abnormally loud.

3. As you go further back, closer to the middle is where your preps and jocks sit. Most (not all) preps that sit here are very judge-mental and are cheerleaders. Your jocks usually consist of football players who can't win a game. It is strange on how HEHS is good in every other sport but football.

4. Further back is a very special select table that is right next to the lunch line. This single table is usually overrun by the "I think I'm better then you" annoying seniors. These seniors think they run the high school and have law above everyone else, but alas they don't.
"Did you see that fight with the lock?

----Yeah. Why are Rectangle Table Kids so violent?"

"Who's yelling?
-----Oh just those stupid Rectangle Table Kids."

"Man last nights football game sucked. 46 to nothing, come on."
by Rectangle Table Kid September 21, 2009
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table envy

The feeling of jealousy you get when you are at seated around a table at some social gathering and you notice that the people seated at the other end of the table are having much more fun, talking and laughing loudly.
Yeah the party was good, but during dinner I had massive table envy, as I was stuck talking to Aunty Betty and her husband while all you guys were at the other end getting drunk and having a laugh.
by me_squib April 4, 2009
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Thats what tables are for

An alternitave to thats what she said, often used to point out when something sounds sexual and wrong.
Person 1: I really want to ride it...
Person 2: THATS WHAT TABLES ARE FOR!
by jellopool June 23, 2010
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Knight of the brown table.

Some one who frequently indulges in gay sex.
That Denver, he's a knight of the brown table.
by ConCoon July 4, 2011
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