When your professor draws an extra distinction where one barely exists or none exists in an effort to prove to you their superior understanding of the material. Typically used on examples and counterexamples brought up by the class.
A: "Actually, the truth condition of 'Santa Claus is your parents' is false. 'Santa Claus' refers instead to the idea of a fat man going down a chimney and leaving gifts, and your parents don't fit those descriptors..."
B: "....gdi."
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B: ">_>"
C: "Whoa, Richard used academic exaggeration on you again didn't he?"
B: "....gdi."
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B: ">_>"
C: "Whoa, Richard used academic exaggeration on you again didn't he?"
by Semen-ticks October 12, 2010
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GUY 2: Bro, we stood around in a backyard and you blacked out at 11:20pm, these events surely do not qualify as EPIC.
GUY 1: "SOOOOOOO EPIC!!!"
GUY 2: You're being an Epic Exaggerationist, and hence a douche.
GUY 2: Bro, we stood around in a backyard and you blacked out at 11:20pm, these events surely do not qualify as EPIC.
GUY 1: "SOOOOOOO EPIC!!!"
GUY 2: You're being an Epic Exaggerationist, and hence a douche.
by Dasage November 13, 2011
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The act of exaggerating a story, because you think everyone will assume you are whether you do or not.
Pre-emptive exaggeration would be telling your friends you were in line for 2 hours when it was only 1, because you know if you say 1 they will assume you were exaggerating and it was only half an hour.
by Perfect_Blue September 10, 2011
Get the Pre-emptive exaggeration mug.When you use hyperbole to express something large or long, and then take it back. Usually done quietly.
Sean: There were like a MILLION people at the party! Actually it was more like 40, but whatever.
Evan: *cough cough Exaggeration Pull-back cough cough*
Evan: *cough cough Exaggeration Pull-back cough cough*
by The_Straight-Edge_Donkey August 1, 2011
Get the Exaggeration Pull-Back mug.opposite of over-exaggerating; to reduce the limits of truth; understate; represent under-proportionality
Drake: "What are you talking about I've only done that to you like once."
Kamile: "OMG! What are you talking about you're like under-exaggerating. You've done that like a bajillion times."
Kamile: "OMG! What are you talking about you're like under-exaggerating. You've done that like a bajillion times."
by eekkamile September 21, 2009
Get the under-exaggerating mug.Fusion of 'exaggerate' and 'masturbate.' Has two very different meanings.
-to become so heated in argument that it becomes an almost sexual experience.
-to become so involved in masturbation that the rest of the world disappears. Your arm being tired, your mom walking in, your house catching fire--all become non-issues.
-to become so heated in argument that it becomes an almost sexual experience.
-to become so involved in masturbation that the rest of the world disappears. Your arm being tired, your mom walking in, your house catching fire--all become non-issues.
Stem cell research always got him so riled up. In our class discussion, he actually got out of his seat and started yelling, making gestures, references to the Patriot Act... you know, really exagerbating.
Vida Guerra's perfect ass gets me exagerbating every time.
Vida Guerra's perfect ass gets me exagerbating every time.
by Wasser_Spiegel September 15, 2005
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Stupid fucking youtuber: The way he leaps off of rooftops and flips backwards to face the camera before falling into a head first dive is just full of the exaggerated swagger of a black teen. It gives me goosebumps every time he does it.
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