Defenestrate

To throw someone or something out of a window

"I will defenestrate you and your mouth organ if you carry on" said tom

by Mrtys May 30, 2006

Dependency Theory

A theory that argues that, due to the exploitative nature of the relationship between advanced capitalist (western) societies and the Third World, the development of the former resulted in the underdevelopment of the latter. Because of its reliance on external sources of demand and investment opportunities, Western capitalism penetrated virtually all parts of the Third World and eventually laid down the foundations of dominance-dependence relationship structures between North and South which tended to engender and perpetuate underdevelopment in the Third World. According to this theory, exchanges between the North and the South, such as trade, foreign investment, and aid, are asymmetric and tend to stifle the development of the latter and to reinforce their dependence. The theory also contends that local elites with vested interest in the structure of dominance and in monopolizing (monopoly) domestic power cooperate with international capitalist elites to perpetuate the international capitalist system.

See also HF allocation, the example.

by IrishRepublicanArmy March 4, 2004

Line Piece Dependency

In Tetris, this problem occurs when a single column remains open and the player needs a line piece to fill it. A psychological dependency also arises as the player prays to the Tetris God for the piece.

This situation is most dangerous when the rest of the field is becoming stacked higher and the player needs the line peice before he/she can focus on the rest of the game. Often, there is potential of acheiving tetris, hence the disinclination towards blocking the column and focusing on the increasing height of the rest of the blocks.

Line Peice Dependency is normally a voluntary condition, but can lead to disaster if the God of Tetris looks unfavourably upon you.

And on the 8th day, the Tetris God granted a line piece to alleviate the player's line piece dependency, and there was tetris, and it was good.

by Dick V. Gina April 17, 2010

Lazy Town Defence

Argument used to justify perving over underage girls, by claiming that because they're now 'legal' it's OK to have been fantasising over an underager.

"It's not peadophilia to wank off over Stephanie, she's 18 now' protested John, invoking the Lazy Town Defence when Susan caught him with his penis in hand whilst watching old episodes of 'Sabrina'

by The Amorous Badger January 29, 2009

postmodern Public Defender

Some poor schmuck was given the sad job of defending poor private fools against acts of larceny perpetrated by the entirety of the general public. He seldom has the integrity to look his client in the eyes because he knows the public always treads on the private.

The importance we place on justice can always be measured by the amount of resources given to the postmodern Public Defender in proportion to the amount of resources given to the Attorney General.

by Spiritual-Master December 10, 2021

Defenestrate

To uninstall Windows from one's computer and install a functional OS such as Linux.

(The original, classical definition of this term is "to throw something through a window". )

"I'm so sick of my laptop running so slowly, I'm going to defenestrate it and install Ubuntu!"

by Hugh Mannity October 28, 2009

Merthyr defence, The

A legal defence to accusations of theft, popular in the somewhat down-at-heel South Wales Valleys town.
The defence consists of 'It wasn't nailed down, your honour.'

'I drank one of Rob's bottles of wine. I intend to use the Merthyr defence - wasn't nailed down, was it?

by The Moai April 11, 2005