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Deer in headlights

A mental state of high arousal caused by anxiety, fear, panic, surprise and/or confusion, or substance abuse. A person experiencing the "deer in headlights" syndrome often shows behavioral signs reminding those of a deer subjected to a car's headlights, such as widely opened eyes and a transcient lack of motor reactions.
Mike doesn't like cars; he's like a deer in headlights when he goes to his driving lessons.
by Erelgey June 28, 2008
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Deerbortion

Deerbortion: When an automobile hits a pregnant deer in the road and the impact of the collision sends that deer careening through the air and directly into the windshield of another vehicle, causing the fetus from the deer to be ejected into the second vehicle. This event was first defined when a story detailing this situation was on the front page of the Albany Times Union newspaper.
Christie: Steve, what happened to your car?

Steve: Oh I just performed a deerbortion on my way to my grandma's house.

Christie: good thing you have glass coverage on the Diplomat.
by L1VExFAST April 2, 2009
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deer truffles

M: You should see my tulips. I planted $60 of bulbs last fall.
J: Oh, I can’t grow tulips anymore because of the deer. They love tulip bulbs.
M: How do they even find them?
J: They find them somehow, and dig them up.
M: They must smell them like pigs smell truffles.
J: Yeah, I’ll be darned if I spend money planting deer truffles.
by thistlebottom April 18, 2010
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Oh, I always get yummy demerits!

Words yet to be uttered by the true master, but currently are shared with enjoyment between memers.

The ‘oh’ part shows the enthusiasm that will go into this phase, and ‘always’ shows it happens often.
Person 1: ‘Oh, I always get yummy demerits!
Person 2: Haha, nice one! I wonder when our true master will give in and utter them...
Person 1: agreed.
by .Mega October 19, 2019
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The Deer Hunter

A great film that tells the story of how the Vietnam War affected the friends and people who lived in some small industrial town of Pennsylvania. It's not exactly a war movie, just a movie about the friends life experience being deer hunters and then soldiers in Vietnam. The movie stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep.
The Deer Hunter is easily 1 of the best, if not the best movie ever made.
by go_wings July 11, 2006
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deershank

The process by which someone is stabbed with a deer's antlers. The said deer is usually attached to a stick. Commonly used as a punishment to loosing superbingo
Winners get bookwiches. Loosers get Deershanked.
by Reiff January 8, 2009
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Urban Deer

An urban deer is a person or individual daring to cross the city street outside of the crosswalk.
This "deer" is often seen running across ghetto streets dodging cars like bullets.
The individual acts without thought or care for their own life, assuming cars will stop for them... sometimes, theyre wrong.
Last night I had to jamb on my brakes as an urban deer sprinted across the street in front of me. Luckily he smiled, otherwise I wouldnt have seen him coming.
by C-Lark March 9, 2005
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