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Modest Proposal

/n/ suggestion made in satire, from the famous original by Jonathan Swift, in which he suggested solving the Irish potato famine by eating babies. See also straw man
A modest proposal: our new school dress policy should require all students to go entirely without clothes or jewelry, to reduce rampant comsumerism and objectionable messages on T-Shirts.
by pete mac May 6, 2007
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Poosabi

The green stuff near the lobsters tail that you are not supposed to eat.
Jason got sick from eating poosabi.
by Throat Pick January 4, 2009
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Pooposa

When you wake up late on a Sunday needing booze and the toilet. This will usually be an extended stay on the throne. Helps to have someone else in the house to prepare the mimosa.
Hey babe! Could really use a “pooposa” in here!
by Wurdsmithofferson January 6, 2019
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Poop proposal

When you propose to someone by shitting in your hand and if they say yes then you smear it on their hand instead of a ring
Jennifer: Did you hear that Bill is marrying his girlfriend? It was so cute!
Bill: It was a poop proposal.
Jennifer: EWW!
by Fake Bucket December 20, 2019
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a modest proposal

A Modest Proposal is when somebody suggests that eating babies might not be such a bad idea. This is taken from the satirical book of the same name written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. He frankly suggested that poor people ought to sell their children as food to the upper class in order to stimulate the economy and bring Ireland out of a sort of depression. Here's an excerpt: "A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust."
Jane- "That infant child looks delicious. I think we should eat him."

John- "That sounds like a modest proposal to me."
by ShaneWood January 13, 2012
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poosack

A replacement for the word "crap", "poop", or "turd"
1.) Dude, I took a major poosack in your bathroom.
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pooposaurous

a dinosaur made entirely of poop.
A Pooposaurous Rex ate my uncle.
by Michael Wegman February 5, 2008
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