Return Investment

Buying an item with the intention of using it briefly, then returning it.

The game is going to be so much better with this awesome sound system. I have to return it tomorrow, though, because I paid for it with rent money. It is just a return investment.

by kittykittyboomboom April 6, 2012

Leftist returnism

When leftists return home to get their parents to pay for dental.

Out of that context, it’s cheap, leftist returnism.

by CoolDudery69 February 20, 2024

super-size returnable-container swindle

Refers to the pathetically-selfish practice of a miser’s offering a naïve fellow human one or more huge trash bags full of returnable containers as payment for his running one or more errands and/or performing some task around the shyster’s house or property, only for the hapless workman to later discover that the bags merely contain a comparatively few very large (i.e., gallon and/or 2-/3-liter) plastic containers, rather than the logically-expected “haul” of many dozens of ordinary-sized glass/plastic drink-bottles and aluminum beverage-cans; he is thus being paid only a small fraction of the “apparent reimbursement” that the gigantic bulging bags had “implied”.

I always insist on either “counting through” bags of bottles/cans before accepting them as payment for something, or having clear-plastic sacks be used to bag up the returnables, so that I can actually see the size/type/number of the containers inside the bags, and thus be more sure of getting the approximate reimbursement that I’ve been led to believe I’d be receiving as my end of the deal... there are waaaay too many advantage-takers out there who are eager to try to pull the ol' "super-size returnable-container swindle" on people like me.

by QuacksO September 9, 2018

Returning a favor

The act of hitting the ball back to your opponent in a game of ping pong by smashing it and running to the left side leaving him with no chance of hitting it back.

John will win the game by returning a favor.

by TheGunnaGuy August 24, 2021

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by IPromiseToDoWhatIPromised May 27, 2025

Return of the Hack

If you told them your phone is being tapped you would lose all credibility
🥚

"how do you know all that you know? why do you do that to me?"
- "Return of the Hack. Return of the Hack. Return of the Hack." 🎶

by Krkič February 26, 2019

Return 0

what to call the event when you bust during school but for no reason, it is unexplainable how this happens.

Person 1: did you hear that Bashir pulled a return 0?
Person 2: yeah it was crazy his pants were soaking!

by sprism September 19, 2023