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Intellectual TapOut

When a conversation goes above your intellectual capabilities, you tap your conversation partner 3 times on the shoulder, and leave. Also called ITO.
"Dude, It was an Intellectual TapOut within the first 2 powerpoint slides. Bob didn’t stand a chance with the CEO."

"Once we cranked up the Intellectual Bandwidth, Bob called an ITO like he was Pee Wee Herman."

"I’ll gladly provide a cerebral body blow that will ITO Bob in the first round”
by SBlanky June 3, 2010
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Intellectual Comb-over

(Noun) A large collection of degrees, certificates and awards on one's office or cubicle wall that are placed the in a pathetic attempt to cover a glaring lack of professional competency or adequacy.

Wally from Dilbert cube probably has every degree since high school, certificates from every seminar and Webinar he ever attended/watched - all in an attempt to "comb-over" the fact that he doesn't really know or do anything productive.
Have you seen Wally's cube? What an Intellectual Comb-Over! He even had his Presidential Certificate of Fitness from High School!
by CivilSavant April 4, 2011
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intellectual rapper

a rap artist that has some knowledge and rhymes that make sense
B.o.B is an intellectual rapper, he has a masters in communication.
by A-Lex a.k.a. Sirlerro January 1, 2012
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intellectualization

Intellectualization is a defence mechanism where reasoning is used to block emotions.
Mary: Hey Harry, i know you cheated on me with your cousin!
Harry: Mary, that's impossible. First of all, as "you" know, i always wait 4 days and 47 hours between two sessions. Relying to that factor, your subconscious makes this stuff up because you can't look different at the situation, you're in your period time. So, shut the fuck up and go get me a beer. <humming>* Long live intellectualization!</humming>
by call me devil July 28, 2017
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Intellectual Pornography

A piece of writing that is so partisan, so indifferent to ordinary standards of truth, that it isn't even propaganda. It's not attempting to convince other people, or even to strengthen and bolster the faithful. It only exists to excite the believer, in the crudest possible way; it plays to arguments so shallow they can only occur in the privacy of one's own head without mortifying embarrassment. In other words, the intellectual version of pornography.
The article on Benghazi is so full of intellectual pornography that everyone at Fox News is going to braingasm when they read it.
by Bluebird_89 February 21, 2018
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Intellectual dark web

A "gated institutional narrative" (delivered by major sources like mainstream media, government funded research and university faculties) that elevates some conversations and tamps down others: for example differences between men and women
Today's intellectual dark web includes people who think that inequality can be changed into absolute equality and denies sex differences
by Thomas Jefferson 1986 March 17, 2018
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Intellectual

A person possessing a highly developed intellect is defined as an Intellectual.
by aRMery September 11, 2019
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