quote-laundering

The act of citing a source to support a hypothesis and burying the reference in a footnote or endnote that, once investigated, turns out to be irrelevant, spurious or entirely fictitious.

Similar to quote-stuffing, a common practice in academic paper-writing, but not to be confused with quote mining.

I was trying to track down that juicy reference that Malcolm Gladwell dropped about what Nietzsche said about cell phones but it turned out to be total quote-laundering.

by panopticonopolis December 1, 2011

gun launderer

Taking an illegally obtained gun and giving it legitimacy. Giving stolen guns legitimate pedigrees and the proper papers to go along with them. This is a problem in Canada where a gun registry exists

"Bring me a gun and i'll make it legit, I'm a gun launderer. That's how it works my friend"

by Drebin June 24, 2015

Pussy Laundering Scheme

A fictitious activity used to impress a potential mate

"Rick is out with his latest Pussy Laundering Scheme, telling girls about his soup kitchen for stray dogs

by Stevemadden November 13, 2017

laundry movie

Any short to feature length film that one can easily walk away from for a few minutes at a time and get the jist of the characteristics (i.e. characters, editing, angles, story).

Tricia had a night planned that must've been the envy of all her friends...last night before taxes; laundry movie and some wine... they'd have to be jealous.

by Snozzel June 26, 2008

Laundrecon

Contraction of "Laundry" and "Recon".

In buildings or dorms where laundry facilities are shared, it may be necessary to do a reconnaissance mission.

Otherwise you risk bringing your dirty clothing all the way to the laundry room, only to find that every machine has been taken, forcing you either to wait awkwardly for someone to retrieve their garments or schlep everything back to your room.

I'm wearing my only clean pair of boxers. I'd better do some laundrecon to check if a machine is free.

by prtgrn April 14, 2010

Laundry Rock

Overproduced, melodic, often folky and/or sometimes "indie" sounding music used in advertisements by large companies to market their products and services to young and/or hip consumers. There is a caveat to this definition as sometimes well established bands and artists license their music to these very companies for use in such advertisements. The term itself refers to laundry detergent ads, which are repeat offenders for this type of "la-la," feel good music.

Typically, acoustic guitars, glockenspiels, banjos and electro-mechanical keyboards (such as a wurlitzer piano) are common timbres heard in a laundry rock piece. Also common are soft sounding, layered male or female vocals.

Band: The Postal Service
Song: "Such great Heights"
ad: Intel based Apple Computers

Band: Wilco
Song: "Walken"
ad: VW Automobile

by TheHows August 22, 2010

laundry meltdown

1. A catastrophic failure condition that exists when one needs to SCRAM or STOP the washer machine after the water spills out onto the floor from a lose drainage hose or other operational malfunction that causes its H2O content to breach the machine's containment vessel and thus spilling out onto the floor. An secondary condition known as China Syndrome can also become evident if the said washer machine is located on an upper floor of your house.
2. A rare condition of when a dryer can get into such a state when one eventually notices burn holes in their clothing upon removing them.

That idiot up on the 3rd floor must have had laundry meltdown last night because my bathroom and closet area looked like f*ing Niagra Falls, and the neighbor form down stairs who speaks Chinese came banging on my door screaming and yelling obscenities at me in two different languages! It was an absolute China Syndrome.

by Mr. Fuku Shima April 29, 2011