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Economic Downturn

When the state of the economy affects your social life.
"Hey Soph, want to go to Vegas?"
"Can't. Economic Downturn"

"why would you buy $40 worth of paper products during an economic downturn?"

In the midst of an economic downturn, Amanda frequents all convenience stores and takes a penny from the "take a penny leave a penny" tray.
by Broke7386 December 18, 2008
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supply side economics

a macroeconomic theory that deals with the aggregate supplu curve instead of the aggregate demand curve. It is a patch to original Keynesian economics which were not concerned with aggregate supply.
supply side economics were responsible for the economic booms of the '20s '50s and '80s
by MizNiz October 2, 2006
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economic anorexic

unable to eat every day because you cant afford it
Wow jenny is getting skinny.

Yeah she lost her job and is economic anorexic
by mdjf February 3, 2009
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ebonics

What happens when crackers try to put a label on Black jive.
Cracker: "Johnson, I believe that colored fellow just called me a muthafukin, skinny-ass, honky."

Cracker too: "Pay no attention to him, Charlie. He was just speaking his ebonics in saying you are a rather thin, Anglo-Saxon, who does the deed with his mother."
by Melvin V. Peebles March 7, 2007
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Ebonics

Literally " Black sounds". or an African language used by African Americans that is not a dialect of English.
Ebonics:
Haps in da hood? = What's going on in the neighborhood?

Jocking my style= Messing with me or copying me in an attempt to be cool like me.

You got beef? = Are you provoking me to engage into a violent confrontation?
by SmellyDaoust March 28, 2010
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trickle down economics

A government ecomomic plan in which taxes are lowered on the wealthy so that they have incentives to do things with the extra money they would have would lead it to 'trickle down' to the middle and lower classes.

For example, the wealthy might use the extra money to expand their businesses or buy more shares in the stock market, thus expanding the economy and providing more jobs for those in the middle and lower classes.

The wealthy might also spend the extra money on more goods and services, thus providing the middle and lower classes with more work.

Probably the most significant stream of money trickling down is from the extra money that the wealthy put in banks. Because there is more money in banks, there is more money for the middle and lower classes to borrow for buying houses and starting and expanding businesses.

Many liberals like to attack trickle down economics as an unfair benefit to the wealthy. Their mistake is that they ignore the idea of the "invisible hand" that is implicitly behind the idea for such an economic policy. Trickle down economics is good because it inevitably leads to more jobs and money for the middle and lower classes and to an expanding economy.
Liberals should actually take a class in macroeconomics before they start complaining about trickle down economics.
by rustyshackleford January 4, 2008
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ebonics

Ebonics- are simply english words that have different meanings, and used most of the time in a different context, from what the "norm" would consider to be it's definition.
For example: Crib- this term usually will describe a bed for a baby. On the other hand the ebonical term would have the definition as being- a house, a home, or wherever you live.

Another example would be a popular word: Boo
Boo is known in the dictionary as a word used to express dissatisfaction or contempt, especially at a speaker or performer. However Boo in ebonics can mean a good friend, or a girlfriend. It is used a term of endearment.

All the other stuff you all are writing about is simply called ignorance and is not associated with ebonics in my book.
by Mrspesina May 13, 2008
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