To start a conflict between other people just so you can watch. Can be between friends, between enemies, or between friends and enemies. Usually involves saying "he said she said you suck!" or some other much more colorful variant. Occasionally falls under the subtle art of interpreting a comment as incorrectly as is plausible.
Drew: "Why do you look so angry, Jordan?"
Akira: "I heard someone say the other day that Jordan doesn't like you, Drew."
Drew: "WHAT!"
Jordan: "Wait, I never said..."
Akira: "...Didn't you wonder where your milkshake went the other day, Jordan? Drew stole it."
Jordan: "WHAT!"
Akira: "That's cuz Drew thinks your haircut is ugly."
Jordan: "Oh really?!!"
Akira: "...And wants to challenge you to a duel."
Drew: "Whoa Akira, why are you trying to instigate?!"
Akira: "I heard someone say the other day that Jordan doesn't like you, Drew."
Drew: "WHAT!"
Jordan: "Wait, I never said..."
Akira: "...Didn't you wonder where your milkshake went the other day, Jordan? Drew stole it."
Jordan: "WHAT!"
Akira: "That's cuz Drew thinks your haircut is ugly."
Jordan: "Oh really?!!"
Akira: "...And wants to challenge you to a duel."
Drew: "Whoa Akira, why are you trying to instigate?!"
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I hate the historical investigation. It shouldn't have the FIVE parts it contains, but rather be a single paper in which we are allowed to write more than 2000 words--if we need to
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Get the Brown hole investigator mug.(adj.) characterized by an occasionally capricious disposition that undermines a prominent topic in an ongoing dialogue by redirecting conversation on the pretense of remarking on external visual stimuli.
Her remark on the scenery was no mere fleeting observation, but rather the mark of one skilled in tactically invertigate persiflage to move the discussion in another direction.
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Get the Investigator Andrew mug./in ves ti ba' shun/ n. (Portmanteau of "investigation" and "masturbation") An investigation with no hope of actually providing any answers, often to a question or case where the answer is already known, but not provable.
O.J. Simpson did not so much conduct an actual search for the "real killers" of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman as he did an <i>investibation</i>.
President George W. Bush ordered an immediate <i>investibation</i> into the Valerie Plame leak, mainly to shut the public up.
President George W. Bush ordered an immediate <i>investibation</i> into the Valerie Plame leak, mainly to shut the public up.
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