An academic title conferred by universities and colleges as an indication of the completion of a course of study, or as an honorary recognition of achievement.
Or more honestly, something that you have to get in order to get a decent job. While most schools confer degrees, there is a new class of ttt schools, mostly online like University of Phoenix and Walden University, that basically sell degrees. While not technically a diploma mill, these new schools have such weak standards that US News and World Report doesn't even bother to rank them. So as long as you stick to a real college, UCLA, Harvard, Duke University, Texas A&M University, University of Miami, University of Michigan... (you know, real schools), your degree should be worth something.
Or more honestly, something that you have to get in order to get a decent job. While most schools confer degrees, there is a new class of ttt schools, mostly online like University of Phoenix and Walden University, that basically sell degrees. While not technically a diploma mill, these new schools have such weak standards that US News and World Report doesn't even bother to rank them. So as long as you stick to a real college, UCLA, Harvard, Duke University, Texas A&M University, University of Miami, University of Michigan... (you know, real schools), your degree should be worth something.
I bombed my SATs and thought that I would have to get a degree through some online crap school like Walden University, but ended up getting into University of Alabama anyway.
by UoAoU June 18, 2009
Get the Degree mug.The academic qualification that hopefully makes worthwhile the spending of the best part of your early adulthood staring at words, diagrams and numbers on computer screens and in books, being unable to keep your own income, living off pot noodles, spending several hours a day on dirty buses, regurgitating author's opinions and sometimes regurgitating after a night of heavy drinking as a result of an attempt to forget about all of the above for a night.
Healthy, content human being: Hey, do you want to-
Uni student: Can't.
Healthy, content human being: Why not?
Uni student: Need an 8.4 GPA on my degree to do my master's.
Uni student: Can't.
Healthy, content human being: Why not?
Uni student: Need an 8.4 GPA on my degree to do my master's.
by fickletravisbickle June 1, 2011
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Someone who attends graduate and professional school for a prolonged period of time and earn multiple degrees (Ph.D. , MD, JD, MBA) without the intention of ever using their degrees. May be used derisively to describe someone who is unclear about their career intentions.
Person 1: Dude, this guy is badass, he has an MD, Ph.D., JD, and MBA degree.
Person 2: Oh yeah? Well has he ever practiced medicine, law, or worked in the business field? He's in his forties and has never worked a real job in his life. He's a degree collector.
Person 2: Oh yeah? Well has he ever practiced medicine, law, or worked in the business field? He's in his forties and has never worked a real job in his life. He's a degree collector.
by Histrionic June 28, 2010
Get the Degree Collector mug.Noun- A name for an elementary school kid that spends his recess time digging in the dirt. By middle school "diggers" either reform or become oddball social outcasts.
Mom: "Hey weren't you friends with him back in grade school?"
Kid: "Nah, He was one of those weird "digger kids."
Kid: "Nah, He was one of those weird "digger kids."
by joesk84ever June 26, 2009
Get the digger kid mug.Crippling Diahreah is like a case of thescreaming mimis usually brought about by drinking too much the night before. It is a colon clensing so fierce that you are doubled over and grabbing on to the cripple bars in the restroom for dear life and so that you wont come flying off the can mid exodus.
The lightweight in the stall next to me had the most rank case of crippling diareah I have ever smelt or heard in a long time.
by AK-49 July 3, 2005
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by chonfran June 14, 2016
Get the Food Digger mug.In Britney Spears's song '3' the lyrics "Got one eighty degrees" refers to 180 degrees meaning two opposites or in front and behind "her". She is "caught in between" or sandwiched as in spit roast.
The phrase spit roast is usually used in a derogatory and degrading way by male participants to brag about a threesome to other males. Spit roast(ing) implies that the two male participants are straight and "used" the female participant in a MFM threesome.
The phrase "one eighty degrees" or simply "one eighty" provides a subtle and tasteful alternative to "spit roast".
1, 2, 3
Not only you and me
Got one eighty degrees
And I’m caught in between
Countin’
1, 2, 3
The phrase spit roast is usually used in a derogatory and degrading way by male participants to brag about a threesome to other males. Spit roast(ing) implies that the two male participants are straight and "used" the female participant in a MFM threesome.
The phrase "one eighty degrees" or simply "one eighty" provides a subtle and tasteful alternative to "spit roast".
1, 2, 3
Not only you and me
Got one eighty degrees
And I’m caught in between
Countin’
1, 2, 3
by PeterToris January 3, 2010
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