repeating decibel

What ya get when a hard-rock or heavy-metal record starts skipping.

Girl, you know it's true dat Milli Vanilli got "George Bush busted" --- i.e., "read my lips" and lip-synching --- by da infamous "repeating decibel" when their playback equipment malfunctioned.

by QuacksO0 May 30, 2025

repention

To repent to one another

"The repention he did made the guy forgive him"

by Dawn Kendrick Johnson July 11, 2025

Repertory Fastbreaking

A religious routine in which the last meal before an annually practised fast is the same one that was used to break the fast the previous year

For me to practise repertory fastbreaking in 2025 would mean that I would have to eat a meatball parmesan sub from Newtonville Pizza before the eve of Yom Kippur

by o23gfh September 25, 2025

repeat someone out

When you keep loudly repeating a word, phrase or command at someone while they're talking so that you intimidate them into shutting up or agreeing, dominating through repetition.

Mia: I’m just saying, I did most of the research part, and—

Jake: You didn’t do anything!

Mia: That’s not true, I—

Jake: You didn’t do anything! You didn’t do anything!

Mia: Jake, will you just let me—

Jake: You didn’t do anything!

(Mia sighs and goes quiet, defeated. The teacher looks over.)

Teacher: Jake, that’s enough, you can't repeat someone out like that.

by AstleyMcRickFace October 24, 2025

repertoire

A collection or set of skills, behaviors, or activities that someone is capable of or accustomed to using.

By introducing video games to your child’s play repertoire, you are creating more work for yourself. There will be more limits to hold.

by Emotional Cruiser November 15, 2025

repewtation

Being infamously odiferous when farting.

In da infamous 1946 International Wind-Breaking Contest, it's not stated whether da two of-loud-and-copious-"crepitation-reputation" contestants --- Lord Windesmere and Paul Boomer --- also had a significant "repewtation". One would hope, though, dat it was an outdoor event, just in case.

by QuacksO December 4, 2025

No-Repeat Guess Who

A game played with the traditional board game "guess who" but with slightly different rules. The difference is that a given question can only be asked once over a period of multiple games (usually for the whole weekend, or however long you're trapped in the cabin with nothing to do except play guess who, but possibly forever!).

If someone asks a repeat question, they lose.

Since the number of objective, declarative questions is rather finite, the later stages of No-Repeat Guess Who are similar to subjective guess who.

Questions are identified by their meaning - you can't change the word order, or add a trivial extra phrase, to ask what is essentially the same question twice.

Sample question from No-Repeat Guess Who: "Is your person a member of The Allman Brothers?"

by firebus July 22, 2010