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Verbose boot

1. When a Mac (or Linux) user boots his/her computer in verbose boot mode. Like iDevice verbosity, except a bit less-filled with crap on the screen, and more juicy info. Mac users, hold down Command (/Apple) + V, Linux users, remove the -splash flag from your kernel boot string.(through the bootloader)

2. When after you've jailbroken (See jailbreaking your iDevice you use redsn0w to set it to verbose boot, so you can watch your iDevice load all it's settings and fuctions while it loads. Or, for debugging if something goes wrong and it won't boot. Highly useful.

Quite amusing, or even scary at times for friends.
Person 1: *walks into room and sees Person 2's Mac verbose booting*
Person 1: Whoah wtf omg what happened to your computer!?
Person 2: It's a verbose boot.

-- Example #2 --

Apple Customer *has device jailbroken*
Apple Store Rep: ..Ok, so what's wrong with it?
Apple Customer: It won't boot
Apple Rep: Well then let me take a look at it. *Presses power button and screen is filled with verbose text*
Apple Rep *gives the customer a weird expression* o_O
by The Macbroker August 3, 2011
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Gabriella Verbose

A female who never stops talking, or says in a hundred words what can be said in ten.

This could be a friend, co-worker, partner, etc., who incorrectly thinks the more she says, the smarter she sounds.

She has no receptors to see how boring, offensive, rude, stupid, uninformed she really is.
Most-evident during presentation and conference calls.

Origin: Gabriella (meaning 'gabby' or talkative) Verbose (meaning the same thing, as in redundant).

Male version of Bob Loblaw.
Didn't know that 'Gabriella Verbose' was heading up today's meeting. We should have blocked out an hour instead of 15 minutes.

Sat next to Gabriella Verbose on a plane last week. After an hour of incessant diatribes about her kids, pets, job and crossfit, I tried to puncture my eardrums by folding one of my business cards into a spike.
by Vesper47 June 3, 2019
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Filthy Verbosity

Refers to a manner of speaking in which the speaker/writer discusses ideas or uses words of a more intelligent variety while at the same time splicing in some fucking expletives to make the talk livelier and more accessible. The style was pioneered by comedians like the late great George Carlin.
Can you believe that fucking Nietzche? I mean, his existentialist philosophy negates the idea of a God while at the same time purporting that there must be some sort of shitty meaning or something to life. Like, fuck.

^This right here is some good old filthy verbosity.
by socialtheoristdouchebag March 18, 2011
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Ambiguous Verbosity

Use of complex words by people in daily conversation who have little knowledge of their proper meaning or usage in the English language.
Carly excessive use of ambiguous verbosity got her fired.
by Percy April 20, 2003
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increasingly verbose meme

A type of multi-frame image in which a lackluster or overused meme is replicated with poorer graphical fidelity but increased verbosity successive times to the point where it is difficult to understand the meme without the original context. Also called 'meme corruption' or 'progressively verbose meme'.
Captions of an increasingly verbose meme:

Frame 1: It's high noon

Frame 2: The time is 12pm.

Frame 3: The grandfather clock currently displays a reading of twelve o'clock post meridian.

Frame 4: It has become increasingly apparent to me that due to the rotation of Earth relative to the Sun, the current "time" as defined by Ancient Egyptians via the decan system is denoted by the numerical value "twelve" of the clock, signalling that the Sun is at the highest point in the sky.
by Jianhuren December 27, 2016
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a beliveable yet untrue statement from a speaker, that is drunk with the excitement of their supposed ability to use big words.

an expression used to insult someone to their face about how they like to use big words because they think they are smart. thus using irony to get the sarcastic point across.
Smartass: I think you losers are Munificent abhorritions of society as we know it

Insulter: You are a Sophistical rhetorician inebriated by the exhuberance of his own verbosity!!!

Smartass: HUH?
by Tomcat07 January 9, 2006
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Argumentum a Verbo Carpe

From Latin: Argument from misspelling of word

Dismissing an argument or statement on the grounds that a word or more is spelt incorrectly instead of the argument presented itself. A subsection of the Red Herring and Ad Hominem fallacies
Person A comment: According to the link you oosted, this doesn't support anything you say.
Person B Comment: Seriously it's posted, learn how to spell.
Person A Comment: Argumentum a Verbo Carpe. Instead of focusing on my typo, try to address my point.
by mariojuggernaut February 1, 2019
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