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laundry limbo

Intentionally rewashing clothing simply because you don't feel like putting it away
I had a shirt I knew was clean, but I was too lazy to hang it up so I just kept it in laundry limbo.
by Emmsey Squire February 21, 2009
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Lavender couple

When a gay man and a lesbian are married or in a long term relationship and claiming to be straight, usually for social or political reasons.
Julia Gillard and Tim Mathieson are most definitely a lavender couple.
by nathrek July 8, 2009
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Raspberry & Lavender

Raspberry & Lavender: Lavender Girl is a feature film directed by Johnny Kim, produced by Dereko Entertainment. The film used mostly pastel colors such as raspberry and lavender in the background. There is a sequel in works called Raspberry & Lavender: Diaries of a Lavender Girl.
by mandii carson March 19, 2008
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laundry nap

After you do your laundry, you put all your warm clothes on your bed and take a nap in them, preferably naked.
Jeff: Dude, wtf are you doing?

Charles: Taking a laundry nap. You have to try it before the end of the semester.

Jeff: Okay, but can you put your clothes back on.
by s3xpanth3r May 4, 2010
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Laundry

Washed up. Capabilities remnant to a younger, better self.
by LilFrinkle July 10, 2019
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reputational laundering

Reputational laundering - the act of appearing to do good publicly in order to offset a negative image. A technique usually employed by individuals or corporations who have made their money in a morally questionable fashion and who wish to appear to have a moral conscience.

Reputational laundering often comes in the form of Corporate Social Responsibility, where a relatively trivial sum of profits are donated by the corporation to fund socially oriented activities in order to suggest that the corporation is socially responsible.

An example, often sited, would be major oil companies giving charitable funds to communities in the Nigeria Delta whose original livelihoods they were implicit in destroying through the extraction of crude oil.

However the practice of reputational laundering is by no means exclusive to corporations. Many morally bankrupt individuals donate money to charity in order that they are seen to care about social or environmental issues. As an added benefit to their undeservedly improved public image they also enjoy significant tax breaks on their donations.
Given that it has just paid record fines for insider trading, PJ Gorman’s effort to support a youth programme in the inner city is little more than reputational laundering.
by katrinmacmillan May 11, 2016
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dirty laundry

ususally used to describe someones secrets that they dont want anyone to find out about. Everyone usually wants to know about others dirty laundry.
I found out about janes dirty laundry!
don henley did a good song describing dirty laundry
by w00tang August 30, 2005
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