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Tipedeervical

adjective.
This word describes a piece of factual information that has been stated for no other reason. Often the word encompasses a kind of ironic element, but this is not necessarily part of the working definition.

The term is used when something is said that for all intensive purposes could have been left unsaid.

The word originates from two Farsi words: ’Tip’ (تب) meaning the search for truth, and ‘derv’ (ديرف) meaning idiom or fact. The first known appearance of the word is in the Persian fairytale The Three Princes of Serendip. It was adopted into western culture only recently, although its first recorded appearance in English was in 1949 in the Autobiography of Henry Rhodes Hamilton. Hamilton says, in this innovative contribution to modern culture: “I asked Mahatma Gandhi why he thought Indian culture was so discriminated against in other parts of the world. Gandhi replied in his usual typedeervical style “Because people discriminate against us.” Since then, the word has been picked up by popular culture, especially that of the British Isles, English-speaking Canada and Alaska. There are now specific conventions around the idea of tipedeervicality including styles of tipedeervical debate, drama and jokes.
Tipedeervical argument:

What do you know about astrophysics anyway?
I am an astrophysicist.

Tipedeervical complaint:
The government needs to shape up. People are not sheep

Tipedeervical joke:
Q: What’s pink and fluffy?
A: Pink Fluff.
by jgballard February 16, 2010
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Tiolence

The act of using one's own tie to choke someone, whether by pulling the knot up too high, or wrapped the tie around the person's neck to strangle them.
Bill: 'Holy shit, did you see RAW last night?'

John: 'Yeah, that was insane what Danielson did to Justin Roberts, strangling him with his own tie...talk about tiolence...'
by Freakie Tim June 19, 2010
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Tile Brush

A cleaning instrument specifically designed to scrub pool, floor and bathroom tiles. Each clump of bristles are set far apart giving surface areas a far better clean.
A tile brush can be used on most surfaces however produce superior results when utilized on ridged surfaces such as tiles.
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ticlei

when your belt missed a loop.
Sir, you seem to have a ticlei problem.
by MGoscinski June 29, 2010
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tile munchers

A woman who munches on clean-shaven-hairless pussies.
Sarah & Cassie are tile munchers together. They went slip & sliding today.
by The Big One. October 9, 2010
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Taple

A slang form of table used by rednecks or dumb people.
I left my bindor on the taple in the keetchen at home !
by pistachio the mustachio May 14, 2011
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Tipperary Chump

A Chump from Tipperary who despite the glaringly obvious still persists in the false belief that they are the best at Fight Night Round 4.
by Better than Enda February 28, 2013
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