Plural Scientific Method

The recognition that there is no single "Scientific Method" but rather a pluralistic toolkit of methods, each suited to different questions, domains, and scales. Physics methods work for physics; ecology methods work for ecology; ethnography methods work for humans. Plural Method rejects the hierarchy that puts some sciences above others and instead asks: what tools are appropriate for this problem? It's the difference between insisting every tradesperson use a hammer and recognizing that plumbers need wrenches, electricians need testers, and sometimes you need all three. Pluralism isn't relativism—it's just acknowledging that reality is various and requires various tools.

"You keep saying economics isn't a real science because it can't do controlled experiments like physics. Plural Scientific Method says: different domains, different methods. You don't test a parachute the same way you test a marriage, and that's fine."

by Dumu The Void February 23, 2026

Plural Romance

Romantic/emotionally intimate, non-platonic relationships whether dating, courtship, marriage etc. held by someone with more than one other person at one time with full disclosure among all parties.

There's a name for people who are open to plural romance; it's a normal fucking human who is alive.

by ApricotFields May 21, 2025

brova, brovas (plural)

Another way of saying and spelling "brother", most similiar to "brotha" as in member of the same family, homie, friend.
Occasionally spelled as "bruva".

"Cocoa Brovas" - much respected underground hip hop act formerly called "Smith and Wesson".

"Brova Edgar" an eccentric barfly at Amy's Cafe in Madison, Wisconsin who can often be seen quoting scriptures, slipping baggies and charming young co-eds.

by Ponara Eng/TriadFam February 7, 2003

Furby (plural: furbies)

1. a robotic brainwashing device, created to aim for the youth majority of the world's population.

2. a harmless-looking toy made by orientals in Japan and other Asian places.

3. one of the best-selling toys for children back in 1999.

4. a piece of rubbish that talks when you don't want it to and mimics behavior, like, babies for example. They just won't let you get to sleep unless you take their batteries out or throw them out the window.

Helpful Hint: never just take batteries out of them to get them to shut up. It may not work. Just dispose of them the correct way (example.- axe, steamroller, etc.)

by Marbo March 27, 2003

Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha

1. (n)The location of Earth.
2. (n)A fictional place in Douglas Adam's series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It is where Earth is located in the series

Sam: Help, my puppy is gone!
Captain: *snickers* don't you know that people from the Plural sectors shouldn't go through hyperspace?



Pilot: Where are we?
Navigator: This map says we landed in Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha

by fib12345 April 25, 2009

Yaahs (plural)

Yaahs- is basically street lingo for white girls. Noun: white chicks, especially valley girls that use the words (like, whatever, OMG bobbi and yaah!) in every sentence.

Yaahs (plural) Yaah (singular)

Dude. how many yaahs numbers did you get this week?

Friend responds: 3. I'm gonna call this yaah named Becky this weekend, rail her and go balls deep son!

by Oliver-Q02 July 29, 2011

Dickbeater, Dickbeaters (plural)

Term for hands, equivalent to mitts, paws, claws. Has more of a insulting quality by acknowledging the fact that the person being address is a self loving loser who has no chance of ever getting laid.

You work in Quality Control at a hellish data processing center.

You are running behind scheduel.You Boss Lou from New Jersey yells.....

"OK Jerkey get those dickbeaters moving, that Data aint just gonna QC itself.comon!" (see Jerkey)

by Gabo, de la Guerra October 9, 2004