To be suffering from trying to seem more important or significant than you really are. Similar to pretentious
Person 1: Is Peter coming to the party later?
Person 2: Na'h, he 's got pretentionitis and he's being a dick lately.
Person 2: Na'h, he 's got pretentionitis and he's being a dick lately.
by SneakySsssssss February 13, 2018
Get the Pretentionitis mug.You need to step in with some pervention against your boi, he’s taking unsolicited pictures of girls at the bar.
by CabritoSnow September 3, 2020
Get the Pervention mug.A war in which the attacked country poses no direct or imminent threat to the attacker. To be differentiated from preemptive war, in which the attacker is in clear danger of being attacked.
The US is an old hand at staging preventive wars. Through clever use of propaganda to infuse nationalism and support for its wars among the population it is able to attack and invade sovereign countries under the guise of "liberation" or "preemptive attack".
See also War with Iraq.
The US is an old hand at staging preventive wars. Through clever use of propaganda to infuse nationalism and support for its wars among the population it is able to attack and invade sovereign countries under the guise of "liberation" or "preemptive attack".
See also War with Iraq.
I'll go and punch a blind person in a wheelchair on the street and call it a preventive attack. He was clearly going for my wallet!
by PoopyPoo August 3, 2005
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Get the presenting mug.That time in the afternoon where it is still afternoon but starts to feel like evening because you start to think about dinner. I.E. beginning at 4pm. Prevening runs between 4pm and 6pm.
"Well it's now 4pm, time to start thinkin about dinner. It's prevening now."
"It's 6pm, prevening is over, it's now evening."
"It's 6pm, prevening is over, it's now evening."
by repeal1968guncontrolact July 22, 2012
Get the prevening mug.When you are going out drinking and you have to drive to the bar or party to get there. You park your car fully aware that you may have to leave it overnight in case you get all blacked out. This is to prevent a ticket or towing the next morning.
Nah, man. It's all good. I don't have to move my car tonight because I engaged in a little preventive parking before I got here. Thanks, though - good lookin out. Now let's black out with our hawks out!
by Cbass187 June 19, 2008
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"I got an F on my exam just for I used preventible instead of preventable"
"I got an F on my exam just for I used preventible instead of preventable"
by Big mouth prick February 23, 2018
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