is an American toy (from the 1960s), where you can "sketch" a picture by moving some controls that "paint" a picture on a screen attached to a box.
You can clear the screen by shaking up the box, thereby shaking "loose" the material that you sketch. It represents a "do over."
You can clear the screen by shaking up the box, thereby shaking "loose" the material that you sketch. It represents a "do over."
"I think ... It's almost like an Etch A Sketch - you can kind of shake it up and we start all over again”.
by jvcfcs May 10, 2020
Get the Etch A Sketch mug.I just introduced Jim to Jerry two minutes ago and Jim can't remember Jerry's name. That Jim sure has an "etch-a-sketch memory."
by MaGeever February 16, 2012
Get the etch-a-sketch memory mug.when a politician straight-faced and blatantly contradicts something they said only a short time before, denies doing so, and it is on tape so you can clearly see what they did. Also known as a "lie".
Romney said the sky is blue on tuesday. On wednesday he said the sky is never blue and he never claimed it was blue.
He did it with a straight face.
We hit rewind and saw exactly what he said both times, yet he denied contradicting himself. It was an etch-a-sketch moment for that politician.
He did it with a straight face.
We hit rewind and saw exactly what he said both times, yet he denied contradicting himself. It was an etch-a-sketch moment for that politician.
by rosethornne. September 30, 2012
Get the etch-a-sketch moment mug.A girl who will say she is in to whatever you are because of the attention she receives. And will give in to whatever. You can usually make out or more with her. Then she can pretend that it didn't happen the next day because she's an etch a sketch ho.
by bubblyblue December 12, 2009
Get the etch a sketch ho mug.Etch-a-sketch vision is when someone you are staring at is playing naive, and you are stuck there having to make eye contact or listen to them for so long listening to how much of a 'Class A" personality they have and then everything starts to look like an etch a sketch because you have had to put up with too much violence for too long.
When I had to speak to a now religious therapist, who was a former prison psychiatrist, they tried to play down my ptsd and make jokes about it- and then came the etch-a-sketch vision...
by nobodycaresaboutdirtypoptarts March 28, 2019
Get the Etch-a-sketch vision mug.To Change one position on Political issues after a politcal primary to make one's self image seem more politically moderate then where they stood when they ran for their politcal party's nomination (For Senate, Congress, President, Governor, ect). In essence it's to try to clear the board politically before battle their politcal opponent for a particular politcal office.
Made Famous by Mitt Romney's 2012 Presidential campaign when one of his campaign workers refereed to resetting Mitt Romney's public image after winning his party's Presidential nomination as using a Etch A Sketch
Made Famous by Mitt Romney's 2012 Presidential campaign when one of his campaign workers refereed to resetting Mitt Romney's public image after winning his party's Presidential nomination as using a Etch A Sketch
Candidate X had to take a hardline approach on immigration to make himself look more conservative then his primary opponent. Worried about his position on immigration making him look bad in the General Election, Candidate X proceeded to perform a Political Etch a sketch of his image.
by Libertatis May 26, 2014
Get the Political Etch a sketch mug.The act of sneaking up behind a woman, reaching around to her breasts, and twidling her nipples between your fingers like the knobs of an etch-a-sketch.
"When she least expected it, Tim snuck up to Claudia and began playing reverse etch-a-sketch with her."
by beaux jaune March 5, 2010
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