by UserPerson38832830 March 19, 2024

To use a different (alternate) approach to solving a problem when the standard approach doesn't work, an approach that is less complicated than improvising.
There was no bell at the hotel front desk, so we alternized by saying "ding, ding" until the clerk came out of the back room.
by JBoftheWikipedia July 24, 2009

Refers to a "just as bad or worse" substitution-product/activity employed to supposedly "fill the void" created by a discontinued unhealthy habit --- the idea here is that while the milk itself may indeed be low-fat, the added calorie-rich and sugary-sweet chocolate has far more fattening ingredients than just the cream in full-fat milk could possibly have contained, and so the person will likely gain even more weight than ever.
Three classic --- and very tragic --- examples of a "chocolate-milk alternative" would be a substance-abuse recovery-program's giving a dry-drunk lots of high-sugar foods in place of alcohol, someone's switching to compulsive shopping in place of gambling, or a person's becoming harshly-snappy and irritably-demanding after giving up cigarettes.
by QuacksO November 5, 2018

A person or persons whom are unable to operate a hammer or tools in general but are extremely capable with knowledge.
Suzan is functionally alternative, she might hurt herself with a soup spoon but she'll hurt you with her knowledge of appropriate Shakespeare insults.
by GridSquid September 2, 2022

by Bane3 July 14, 2024

a school full of absolute bottom of the barrel kids who couldn’t succeed at seaholm so they got thrown into a basement. half of them are either rapists, pedophiles or coke whores and sell their bodies for drugs.
guy1 :Bro doesn’t ella go to lincoln street alternative
guy2: yeah but her ass is fat
guy1: ur guaranteed to get syphillis but ok
guy2: yeah but her ass is fat
guy1: ur guaranteed to get syphillis but ok
by ilovegothbitchez42069 October 14, 2021

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by deEr. April 17, 2020
