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tinderitis

(n) the harmful side effect of incessant use of the smartphone app - Tinder. Often diagnosed by a flat battery, blowing your data allowance or a ruined index finger or thumb tendon.
Had to give up my smartphone this month. Got tinderitis in my finger from too much swiping looking for birds.
by DrTinderbox October 4, 2013
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Thinkerbate

To engage in deep thought by one's self.

Also see thinkerbating.
I'm not sure I can do that for you -- let me thinkerbate on it for a while
by Dawson1972 November 4, 2010
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Tinder Exhibitionist

Someone who uses the dating app Tinder in public and makes it blatantly easy for others to watch their swiping spree.
Scientists have speculated that this externalizing behavior may arise from a desire or compulsion to expose one's own swiping preferences and mating partner fetishes. The Tinder Exhibitionist may find amusement or even sexual satisfaction out of their indecent dating exposure.
Dan: "Man, Johnny did again! He was sitting in the train with people around him and swiped furiously on Tinder and everyone was watching because one just cannot look away for obvious reasons!"
Jack: "Johnny is such a Tinder Exhibitionist. I told you this!"
by Ziz1243 March 11, 2019
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tinkers

Tinkers is a term for a group of Irish Travellers who worked with tin and mended pots and pans from door to door in rural Ireland before urbanisation in the 1960's. This is a perjoritive term these days and is used to insult Irish Travellers, as gyppo is to insult Romani people (different ethnic nomads in Britain & Ireland).

Not all Irish Travellers were tinkers (from tinsmithing or tinsmith) as there were horse dealers, market traders etc.

Irish Travellers have their own distinct culture, traditions, way of life and language and are indigenious to Ireland and are said to be here in Ireland before the Celts arrived in Ireland 500 yrs BC.
"irish travellers are all tinkers"

"No, its a term, often negative"
by tinker-boy August 16, 2006
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deep thinker

A person with profound thoughts; one who thinks beyond what is obvious.
She is such a deep thinker that's why she hardly has time for mundane concerns.
by Sonnetshaven August 12, 2011
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Tinkerbelle

When a Crackhead is coming off a binge, has not slept for days, shoots enough heroin to be just short of the sought after, final over dose. They may go into a sort of sleep, trance, stoned dance, referred to on the street as Tinkerbelle, Tinkerbell, Tinkerbells, or Tinkerbelling.

This movement may last just a moment, or persist for ten to twelve hours or more. The behavior usually starts before the syringe has been withdraw from the body.

Often during some part of this activity they may curl up, rolling backward on their spine, draw there knees close together, flutter there legs in the air as if riding a bicycle, pointing their toes towards the sky.

At other times it may appear to be a spasm, complete with twitching, jerking, shuddering, and shivering. The enthusiast may dance and thrash around taking off clothing as they go. They may nod out and awaken incessantly. Eyes may be partially closed or open. Devotees often claim they were asleep on their feet.

When standing sleep-trance dancing, pretty ladies, may remind spectators of Peter Pan’s fairy, with all the bells and whistles of a gypsy, who does not give a tinker's damn what anyone else thinks about how susceptible to physical or emotional harm they appear.

Tinker from “Tinkers dame,” bell from “bells and whistles,” Tinkerbell from “Peter Pan.”
Sarita is known to Tinkerbelle, in the Mission.

Jamie is Tinkerbelling, in Chinatown.
by SuraScent January 9, 2009
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tinkers invitation

A last minute invite to a function usually as replacement for an invited person who can't make it.
I got a tinkers invitation to Julie's wedding this weekend, I wonder who bailed .
by Jessyjes November 5, 2017
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