A phrase strongly stating that you do not wish, nor desire to oblige the current situation that is presented towards you.
Cult Leader: hey man, can you video tape me in my basement with my uhhh.. nephew?
Man: I'm not touching that with a 20 foot pole and a 40 foot extension
Man: I'm not touching that with a 20 foot pole and a 40 foot extension
by bulletface April 20, 2015
Get the I'm not touching that with a 20 foot pole and a 40 foot extension mug.A text string pattern matching mechanism. Usually applied to individual lines of text, such as from a simple text file, where the regular expression (sometimes abbreviated as RE) pattern can be used to precisely specify which lines ought to match and which shouldn't. The more complicated REs may look very confusing to people who don't know them, as they look more like a random string of letters and other characters without any obvious meaning.
Commonly they're enclosed between slashes (/like this/), because that's how they were used in many ancient Unix tools. They can also be used for text substitution, for example with the s/ construct. A common operator specifying that a RE will follow is the tilde (~).
The Perl language makes heavy use of regular expressions, and the grep tool also searches by REs. SED and AWK are some older tools also using REs.
REs come in two forms: Basic REs and Extended REs, varying slightly in syntax and possible contructs. Perl extens the Extended REs even further and has defined the standard "Perl Compatible REs" (PCRE).
Commonly they're enclosed between slashes (/like this/), because that's how they were used in many ancient Unix tools. They can also be used for text substitution, for example with the s/ construct. A common operator specifying that a RE will follow is the tilde (~).
The Perl language makes heavy use of regular expressions, and the grep tool also searches by REs. SED and AWK are some older tools also using REs.
REs come in two forms: Basic REs and Extended REs, varying slightly in syntax and possible contructs. Perl extens the Extended REs even further and has defined the standard "Perl Compatible REs" (PCRE).
"some example string" =~ /^s*.*e+.*(?:x.* )?.*?g$/
result: 1 (because the regular expression between the // matches the string)
result: 1 (because the regular expression between the // matches the string)
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Get the Expressionate mug.Of, or relating to, the outward display of expression or emotion. Specifically when it proves Mike wrong.
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Get the Expressionate mug.noun. When internet folk add unnecessary letters to their words. It can pass with some girls or if using it as if you were speaking but normally they look as dumb as hair extensions.
A:Where were you?
B:At the Olive Garden where were u?
A:At the Olive Garden...wait which one did you go to?
B: The one on Mainstreet, thats where I said to go.
A: Ohhhhhhhhh
B: >:l
A: What? I just realized that I f***** up
B: Sorry I thought you were using word extensions, myyyy baddd
A: Youre so gay
B:At the Olive Garden where were u?
A:At the Olive Garden...wait which one did you go to?
B: The one on Mainstreet, thats where I said to go.
A: Ohhhhhhhhh
B: >:l
A: What? I just realized that I f***** up
B: Sorry I thought you were using word extensions, myyyy baddd
A: Youre so gay
by z1andonly July 7, 2010
Get the word extensions mug.Used when It is blatantly obvious that someone is being racist. Definitely to be used when you are a female minority referring to a white male.
Sarah: “I mean I don’t know, Chung Lee’s eyes were as if he was looking at the sun while he was talking to me.”
Evan: “Wow Sarah, your racial expression is real strong. Maybe have some tea.”
Evan: “Wow Sarah, your racial expression is real strong. Maybe have some tea.”
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