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shooter-thirty

past time for happy-hour and the first unwinding drink (shot, shooter)
5 o'clock on friday. it's definitely shooter-thirty!!
by pzps February 6, 2009
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skull-thirty

Precisely around the time of day When it is necessary as an individual or group of, to crack, smash, bust, split or stomp open the skulls of ones enemy's.

Present and past tense.

27mmBEATER
"GRAB YOUR BAT!" its 'skull-thirty...

What time you want to meet punk? say..."skull-thirty"?
by PartyHardBoy April 24, 2023
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queer thirty

Any time a guy imbibes a chick drink.
It's queer thirty, can I get an Appletini.
by an ominous mouse May 23, 2008
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ninja-thirty

The time when you look at a clock and realize that a large portion of time disappeared. It is NEVER 'ninja o'clock', because by the time you've realized the time, it's at least a half-hour after you expected.
Friend 1: "Dude, what the hell happened to the day? I had that interview for that job."

Friend 2: "Ninja-thirty happened, son... remember that 'I'm only going to play a couple games' Madden marathon we just had?"
by Agent 14 December 16, 2009
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nate-silver-thirty

(noun)

parameters and/or random noise added to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes

(verb)
to add spurious adjustable parameters and/or random noise to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes
to artificially inflate your estimate of a very unlikely event occurring to ~30% with no justification within your model, simply so you can cover your ass should the unlikely event occur, all while retaining the option to claim that you predicted, with better than 2/3rd probability, that the unlikely event would not occur.
“After realizing her model to predict economic growth didn’t include enough details, and was therefore predicting too narrow a range of possible outcomes, she nate-silver-thirty (ed) her model to get a more satisfactory appearing distribution of outcomes.”
by stats_definer August 28, 2020
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