The idea that someone is guilty unless they can come up with another person who is either guilty or a strong suspect. The idea is usually based on an imprecise process of elimination.
Parent to child: Did you do it?
Child: No.
Parent: Well if you didn't do it, then who did?
Nearby observer: Ah ha, she's using the guilty until alternate suspect principle.
Child: No.
Parent: Well if you didn't do it, then who did?
Nearby observer: Ah ha, she's using the guilty until alternate suspect principle.
by BillyBuggy March 17, 2011

The condition wherein Donald Trump's (deplorable) base ignores his countless lies, and ignores his countless misstatements of facts. These loyal followers, suffering from T.A.R.S., choose to give their leader/ paper tiger, a PASS on all the diarrhea that spews forth from his mouth. These sufferers live in a dimension where facts don't matter. "Alternative Facts" are an acceptable substitute.
At the Thanksgiving dinner table, I listened in disbelief as my redneck Uncle Cletus, who suffers from Trump Alternate Reality Syndrome (TARS), waxed philosophic about Donald Trump's "record-breaking inauguration crowds".
by DemocracyLover4EVA January 8, 2019

by awiergan March 12, 2005

Shadow: Go ahead, I have 50 alternate accounts
Also Shadow: My fingers right on top of the delete button Eggman
Shadow: What are you going to do to stop me with your long toothpick legs.
Eggman: Hehehehehe haha
Eggman: You fool, I have 70 alternative accounts
Also Shadow: My fingers right on top of the delete button Eggman
Shadow: What are you going to do to stop me with your long toothpick legs.
Eggman: Hehehehehe haha
Eggman: You fool, I have 70 alternative accounts
by anonymous December 12, 2022

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by deEr. April 17, 2020

A person or persons whom are unable to operate a hammer or tools in general but are extremely capable with knowledge.
Suzan is functionally alternative, she might hurt herself with a soup spoon but she'll hurt you with her knowledge of appropriate Shakespeare insults.
by GridSquid September 2, 2022
