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Wikipedia-ed

v. the act of shutting down your opponent's argument by looking up the correct information on wikipedia.
Meg: "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" was totally coined on SATC.

Samir: "I just looked it up and it was a song released in 2001"

Meg: "Dude, you totally wikipedia-ed me"!
by MePa February 12, 2010
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Wikipedia Syndrome

The act of going to a site with the intention of looking up one piece of information, and instead finding yourself on one or more articles that have nothing to do with what you had originally come for. Stems from Wikipedia linking to articles within articles.
by Moatihar January 6, 2009
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wikipedia journey

(n) When you start looking something up on wikipedia (usually something meaningful for a class or work) and end up clicking link after link of related topics in each article, until you've ended up on something completely unrelated and wasted a large amount of time on information you forget 1 hour later.
I started looking up micro albumin but went on a three hour wikipedia journey until I ended up on anal intercourse.
by Kumbo January 10, 2012
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Wikipedia Limbo

The state of continually following links from page to page on Wikipedia researching topics that grow progressively distant from the original page.
I started out looking for info on wombats and got stuck in wikipedia limbo. Six hours later I was reading about ancient Rome.
by A. M. Delmont December 9, 2008
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Wikipedia Whore

A person who excessively overuses the website Wikipedia.
Tom: Craig... You're such a Wikipedia Whore! How the hell can you overuse Wikipedia! It's userbased!!

Craig: You're userbased!

Tom: That doesn't make any sense ...
by Info-nator October 23, 2007
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Wikipedia-Spree

A Wikipedia-Spree is an extend period of time in which an individual constantly reads Wikipedia pages, jumping from one page to the next, motivated by curiosity. Usually the individual has no intentions of reading any of the Wikipedia pages they do read. The individual often looses track of time, only to find himself much more knowledge-full about useless knowledge.
"I totally didn't get my assignment done last night, I ended up going on a huge Wikipedia-spree for hours. On a brighter note I now know that the oldest hotel in the world was established in the year 718."
by Corn-pop March 23, 2010
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Wikipedia Tingle

The sudden, unexplained urge to visit Wikipedia to test the validity an unknown definition or questionable fact.
Polar bears are left handed? I didn't know that, wait, I just felt the Wikipedia tingle, let me look that up.
by FWMFTW July 6, 2008
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