Informal
v. "to palin"
The act or an instance of looking like an idiot during an interview because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. Reasons for palining an interview include ignorance and/or arrogance. Instead of admitting you don't know, you try to fake it be injecting obscure information into an answer hoping that the interviewer will forget their question.
tr.v. palined, palin·ing, palins
v. "to palin"
The act or an instance of looking like an idiot during an interview because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. Reasons for palining an interview include ignorance and/or arrogance. Instead of admitting you don't know, you try to fake it be injecting obscure information into an answer hoping that the interviewer will forget their question.
tr.v. palined, palin·ing, palins
"She was nervous and completely palined her job interview." -Kate Stigberg
"Their literature leans toward a comedy of small social palins and withered chastity" -James Wolcott.
"Tommy Bowden was palining all over the place when they asked him why his offense has been so miserable this year." -Ken Burger
See also: Sarah Palin vs. Charles Gibson, Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric, et. al.
"Their literature leans toward a comedy of small social palins and withered chastity" -James Wolcott.
"Tommy Bowden was palining all over the place when they asked him why his offense has been so miserable this year." -Ken Burger
See also: Sarah Palin vs. Charles Gibson, Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric, et. al.
by $nead January 14, 2009
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2) Responding to questions with cliches and colloquialisms to avoid admitting that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
2) Responding to questions with cliches and colloquialisms to avoid admitting that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
1) John is quitting his job because his manager got mad at him for being late.
2) When I asked my history teacher about the Battle of Antietam, I could tell he was Pullin' a Palin when he started rambling about the Industrial Revolution.
2) When I asked my history teacher about the Battle of Antietam, I could tell he was Pullin' a Palin when he started rambling about the Industrial Revolution.
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Palinism
Definitions:
1. Drill baby! Drill! Oh, Boodles! No, I didn't mean that hole!
2. On drilling in the ANWR:
"God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines and fishing boats."
3. On Alaskan soldiers serving in Iraq:
"Well, God bless them, and I mean God and Jesus because without Jesus we'd be Muslims too or even Jewish!"
Definitions:
1. Drill baby! Drill! Oh, Boodles! No, I didn't mean that hole!
2. On drilling in the ANWR:
"God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines and fishing boats."
3. On Alaskan soldiers serving in Iraq:
"Well, God bless them, and I mean God and Jesus because without Jesus we'd be Muslims too or even Jewish!"
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