verbal osmosis

The act of checking your mail, facebook and twitter accounts, checking out the new additions to lolcats, failblog, roflrazzi and urban dictionary, checking nhl and ufc highlights, etc, all while your teacher is lecturing you, hoping that some of the talk that is washing over you will stick in your head.

"Life's too short to listen to this crap. Hopefully i'll accidentally learn enough to pass via verbal osmosis."

by sike moda November 16, 2009

Verbal Jail

When someone says something so old school or stupid that they should be in jail for STILL using that term.

Person 1: You're so phat.
Person 2: You need to be in Verbal Jail for still using that term!

by Soulful Delight December 5, 2011

verbal typo

A verbal typo is when someone says something other than what they wanted to say in the first place. It is most often a switching of prefixes between two words, such as "chicking tock" instead of "ticking clock". It can also be an entirely different word that just sounds the same. Verbal typos occur a lot, and can happen to anyone at any given time.

John: Damn, I can't concentrate. That chicking tock is so annoying!
Jane: What's a chicking tock?
John: Sorry, ticking clock. Just made a verbal typo.

by IEatzC00kies August 19, 2016

Verbal Origami

Where one person, can take what appears to be very ordinary words, and change them within the blink of an eye into a new meaning (generally an insult). It is an amazing art form, almost MacGyver-like.

Female (to husband): Do you like my new haircut?
Husband:Yeah, I really like it now!
Female:What do you mean now! Are you saying it was cr*p before?
Husband: Damn Verbal Origami

Female (to husband): We’ll probably go over to Mum’s this Sunday night for dinner.
Husband:OK.
Female:What do you mean I take after my Mum – what are you saying?
Husband:(…WTF???? Verbal Origami).

by Piripineho October 19, 2011

verbal irony

Discrepancy of meaning, where the speaker has several meanings for the phrase according the situation, but he or she only wants the audience to perceive one of it

Very similar to sarcasm

"I was so excited to return to school for final exams after spring break"

by english class May 13, 2005

Verbal Diarrhea

When someone talks, and the resulting output smells and sounds like shit

Every time George W. Bush gives a speech, all I hear is verbal diarrhea.

by Dan Miller March 23, 2004

verbal abuse

Rhymes that are so incredibly good. The person who these rhymes are directed towards will feel pain just by the shear depth and phatness of the rhymes themselves.

Thug 1: Heads know that this chump is gonna get whalloped by the epic verses that Q-Tip will spit.
Thug 2: Fo' real. The verbal abuse inflicted upon that Sucka MC will be severe.

by QueueTip April 13, 2006