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dinner thread

n. an obnoxiously long online discussion whose subject matter may concern a multitude of different topics. used in any context pertaining to online threads, esp. facebook messages. often aggravates the lesser known psychological condition known as macronematophobia.
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"Dude, have you been keeping up with the dinner thread? It's five hundred messages long!"
"Nah, man, my shrink said I can't; I'm macronematophobic."
"Bogus, dude."
by Il Bianco April 1, 2008
mugGet the dinner threadmug.

old thread

He's a old thread that should be cut.
by Noah_H25 May 19, 2018
mugGet the old threadmug.

Build Thread

A type of thread generally found on vehicle-related forums which is a chronological documentation, including photos of the steps taken towards either modifying or restoring a vehicle or item.
Hey Bob, go check out my offroad light install in my build thread! They go great with my prerunner bumper.
by oktain December 14, 2010
mugGet the Build Threadmug.

/thread

/thread is used ironically uncommonly
when someone quotes dumb post/s on the imageboard and sums up ironically the value of the message behind them
When posting for example on lgbt board things like;
The female body is beautiful and aesthetic. You'd have to be fucked in the head to not like it.

and the other user quotes your post and writes;
/thread
by jagth March 4, 2018
mugGet the /threadmug.

Thread Slag

The detritus found down-message in a long e-mail whose progenitors do not have the courtesy to *snip* before forwarding.
He sent me this long e-mail with a lot of thread slag appended.
by The War Planner March 1, 2013
mugGet the Thread Slagmug.

pushing the green thread

a colloquialism used in phased array ultrasonic testing describing the act of maximizing the signal amplitude over a range of angles during calibration
Yo, did you push the green thread? Your sensitivity is whack at 60°
Took me forever to push the green thread on this notch. Sigh.
What’s the point of pushing the green thread for an ‘S’?
by mm_are_better May 22, 2024
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Thread

A needle. Typically used to clean out pipes or one hitters when the weed has stuck to the edges.
*One girl to another girl*
“Ay yo you got any threads? “
“Yea do you want a Bobbie pin or a needle?”
Probably a needle. I’m cleaning out my one hitty”
by Jackie- IOU😂 July 2, 2018
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