Tonya Harding Option

A political strategy being considered by the Clinton campaign to destroy the viability of Barack Obama's political campaign. To compromise your opponent's ability to compete: see Tonya Harding

Employing the Tonya Harding Option in this campaign, is to risk political suicide.

by Guido1 March 25, 2008

Tonya Tapper

A baton, typically a retractable/collapsible type that is carried by the police and can be easily carried by an average civilian and used for self-defense or destroying kneecaps.

The term is derived from the 1994 attack of Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by Shane Stant, who was later revealed to be hired by Jeff Gillooly and Shawn Eckardt. Eckardt was the bodyguard to and Gillooly was the ex-husband of rival Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding. The attacker used a 21-inch (53 cm) ASP telescopic baton and was intending to break the knee of Kerrigan, thus allowing Harding to advance further. Many news outlets and people have since associated Tonya Harding directly with the attack and the alliterative term "Tonya Tapper" was created.

"Did you hear Jimmy got hit up with a Tonya Tapper? He's never going to walk the same."

"I keep a Tonya Tapper in my car in case of emergencies."

"What is the word for a Tonya Tapper again? You know, the one that you smash into the ground to collapse or into kneecaps."

by DictionaryContributor B===D May 1, 2023

Tonya

is the funniest person ever, definitely not kind. Likes to talk shat behind people's backs, but shes oen of the ebst perosn ever

hei toney if u read this thes is elele

"Hi Tonya<33"
"ew"

by elle lebob November 23, 2023

Tonya Harding

The girl with the serious looking/sounding defense mechanism (the one that kept the world from finding out that she was actually a soft, spiritual person at heart).

Even Tonya Harding's character looked/sounded a little too serious to be true at the more comedic points in the movie portraying her.

by The Original Agahnim June 7, 2021

Tonya Harding

Some would follow her to the depths of darkness and even the Fourth Reich.

Die hard Tonya Harding suuporters- Heil Tonya Harding, we will never question your greatness or stand up to you when we don't agree, because there will never be a time we don't agree! Who do you want us to off today, who was mean to you today?

by The Original Agahnim June 7, 2021

Tonya Harding

Someone that had more than one adversary (someone that stood up against/opposed her) in life to end up either mysteriously getting killed, or mysteriously getting injured, despite not having any direct involvement in the events.

For someone who was not involved directly in any of the incidents, people that weren't on Tonya Harding's side sure did have some bad things happen to them.

by The Original Agahnim June 7, 2021

Tonya Harding

Tonya Harding didn't seem like a physically fragile person on the outside, and she took advantage of the weaknesses, insecurities, and fears of others to keep a tough image going, but her heart was made of glass and couldn't take rejection (especially not by the opposite sex, as the person she hated most wasn't of her own sex) because it was soft. A person can change their exterior to where they look tougher than they were as a kid, but you can't change what is in a person's heart.

Tonya Harding seems too tough to be true because when you look at the whole person and get past the don't underestimate her physically bullshit (which most people don't underestimate her) , she really is. She lives like a coward, and always has.

by The Original Agahnim June 8, 2021