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post-barnum depression

n. Moderate to severe depression in a performer or staff person after giving birth to a fantastic blow-your-mind show, when the cast and crew diaspora leaves your hitherto fervent banner flaccid in the listless echoing breeze. Onset is typically a few days after the blowout closing party.

Symptoms include sadness, fatigue, insomnia, appetite changes, having the libido of an awkward teenaged virgin, crying episodes, hysterical laughter, irritability, staring at Google Maps, the tuneless humming of barn-revival spirituals, chromatic-motion melodies in 6/8 time, or minor-key adaptations of Survivor's 'Eye Of The Tiger', and Facebook status updates.

Food-related cravings are not uncommon, especially for hot dogs, or paper and plastic bags of salty-yet-sweet snack foods (e.g., kettle corn). A dull disappointment is inevitable when the lid is removed from a can of peanut brittle and the sufferer is not EVER greeted by spring-loaded snakes. Honestly, what's the use.

Commonly abbreviated as PBD.

Closely related to "post-camp depression" (PCD), "post-con syndrome" (PCS), "whoa, too fun" (WTF).
"Joseph has to come up with a usage example for urbandictionary.com today, but his post-barnum depression is pretty severe. He just keeps hanging upside-down from his workstation desk and calling his mouse Templeton."
by Joseph of Windows to Sky August 12, 2009
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Bacmup

The instantaneous call for support in aid to the boys.
"If this is drunk you5 boy has now bacmup"

"Bacmup is required"

"Requesting Bacmup"
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Originated from England.
You're bloody barmy. You know that right?
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Barmuda Triangle

A well known 4 sq. block habitat for wildlife in downtown Eugene, Oregon.
Standing in the intersection of Olive and W. Broadway (as is wont to happen
in the wee hours of a raucous night) you are within a 1 sq. block radius of 11 watering holes.
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2: I dunno, last time I saw him was around midnight, he was stumbling toward the Barmuda Triangle.

1: Uh-oh!

2: Yeah, he could be anywhere. . .
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pasty barm

A delicacy from Bolton, UK. It is any form of pasty/pie(though often your basic meat & potato) sandwiched on a (preferably buttered) barm cake. Available at all good Hampsons & Greenhalgh's stores in Bolton, though elsewhere in the country often requires specific instructions in the construction. You do lose some flavour of the pasty/pie, but you increase the munch factor. Pie barms can also be a messy eat.
Hampsons employee: "Yes cock, what wouldst tha like?"
You: "Steak pasty barm please"
Employee: "alreet kid that's £1.20 please"
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Pie Barm

"oi.. james, shall we go the pie shop for a pie barm?"
"yeah... what pie you having?"
"steak and onion"
"nice choice!"
"butter?"
"yeah you can't have a pie barm without butter."
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balmung

In Norse mythology, it is the sword Sigurd used to kill the dragon Fafnir. The sword originally belonged to Sigurd’s father Sigmund, who pulled it out of the log where the god Odin had thrust it.
Pull Balmung out of the Log!!!!!
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