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Nous Retrouvons

A brotherhood in Alhambra that's as tight as synergy
stands for "WE ARE TOGETHER"
also the brother club of the FINEST SISTERHOOD out there, LES PETITE AMIES
Person #1: Hey, you trying out for NR?
Person #2: what the hecks NR?
Person #1: NOUS RETROUVONS, MOTHER^&*^er!!!
by thatNRguy May 2, 2010
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Retrograde

Retrograde is a retreating motion.

The word retrograde derives from the Latin words retro, backwards, and gradus, step
"Mercury Mercu-Mercury`s in Mercury`s in retrograde" From the Bloc Party song, Mercury.
by Gingerdwarf October 16, 2008
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retrotardation

retrotardation being an outdated loser with zero knowledge of current events,or a loser with no technical knowledge who like to do things the old way because it's just easier.
I'm suffering from a case of retrotardation,My name is Allen and I think my email address is my website!
by Beatrice July 17, 2004
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Retromance

A romantic relationship rekindled between former partners from the past.
"They met each other again on Facebook after 20 years apart, fell in love and got married. It was a beautiful retromance."
by Ando Indigo September 22, 2009
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retroactively-awkward photo op

The tendency of girls to take pictures with everyone at a party (regardless of whether or not they like the people in the photos), so that if something awkward or embarrassing happens with someone during the course of that party, there is usually a photo of them before that incident happened.
"Look at that picture of Michael, Ella, and Isabel"
"Weren't Ella and Isabel in a catfight that night?"
"Yeah but this was at the beginning of the night, it's clearly a retroactively-awkward photo op."
by ShawnCP November 3, 2009
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retronym

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Altering or adding to a prior word or term term that must be further defined in the light of later developments or technical innovation.

Example: No one called "World War One" that until there was a "World War Two" with which to contrast it. The going term during the 1914-1918 war and up to 1939 was "The Great War."
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Other employment of term retronym:

Telephone becomes "rotary-dial phone" to distinguish it from the push-button phones that became widespread in the 1970s and early 1980s (although rotary-dial phones still work if all you want to do is place a call and don't need to access features like querying a bank account balance).

Similarly, telephone also becomes "corded phone" to distinguish the traditional hard-wired telephone from those that are wireless in some way, such as cordless phones.

"Regular" coffee to distinguish it from decaffeinated coffee; some people say "caffeinated" coffee but strictly speaking this is a grammatical back-formation, not a retronym, because "to caffeinate" would mean to ADD caffeine to traditional coffee.

Note, though, that Coca-Cola is a "caffeinated" or "caffeine-containing" soft drink in its usual red-can form. Now that there is a Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola "caffeinated" could find use as a retronym for "the real thing."

"Manual" or "standard" or "stick" transmission on a car, none of which terms was necessary before automatic transmissions on cars became widespread and assumed to be the norm.

And, of course, "acoustic" guitar.
by al-in-chgo March 6, 2010
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reproductive system

the reproductive system is a series of organs that result in the reprduction of a baby here are the human reproductive organs
Male reproductive system-penis, vas deference, cowpers gland, seminal vesical, epidydmis, testicals, scrotum, sperm, semen, ect.

Female reproductive system-cervex, vagina, uterus, phallopian tube, eggs
the sex system reproductive system
by bobllup July 18, 2010
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