significize

To make significant; to cause to become relevant or prominent. Pronounced as either sig-NIF-ih-kyz or sig-NIF-ih-size.

Winning an Oscar significized Marisa Tomei's career. Or, at least it should have...

by G. Thomas December 17, 2006

throw up your sign

makin a letter or sign wit your fingers, lettin people know wat crew you wit

cripsz would put up 2 C'sz

Bloodsz would put up a b

People from Atlanta would make a A

"throw up your sign, the bloods are comin."

"put your two c'sz up"

"peace up, A town down"

by LocMamii April 25, 2006

signifyin'

Noun/Verb - Signifyin' is a form of street poetry used in the African-American community. Using a rhyme structure, it often contains a series of taunts or boasts. Soemtimes called "playin' the dozens".

As spoken by Rudy Ray Moore (aka Dolemite):

The Signifyin' Monkey

Way down in the jungle deep,
The bad ass lion stepped on the signifyin monkey's feet.
The monkey said, "Muthafucka, can't you see?
Why, you standin on my goddamn feet!"

by The Original OG May 23, 2003

Co-signer

A white woman who dates thug or ghetto black men. Usually tend to be overweight and has tattoos of "her baby daddy (ies)" on her breasts.

Dumb white girl: I met Tyrone at Wal-Mart. He took me to the McDonald's to have a coke. We went to his sister's apartment afterwards and omg, sex was great!

Smart white girl: HAHA, you're a co-signer! Yeah, he'll fuck you right, but get ready to co-sign for his car loan, his apartment, his rims, his new grill... ETC

by Yes_it_was_me December 3, 2010

master-signifier

In Lacanian theory, a signifier which stops the slippage of the signified under the signifier and fixes meaning, thereby forming a stable symbolic order. It is a particular signifier with no signified of its own, which stands in for the "fullness" of the meaning of the symbolic system itself. However, since contingency and lack are taken to be primary in Lacanian theory, it is necessarily arbitrary and is unable to guarantee its own primacy except through arbitrary and ungrounded violence. It is always haunted by the return of the Real.

In my view, this concept is useful but its basis is mistaken. What is repressed is active desire, held down for fear of punishment, and not some kind of ontological void. Lacan is wrong to pose his problems on such a metaphysical level.

by Andy May 7, 2004

Stop Sign

A large, red, rectangle-thingy bearing a white insignia intended for those with literary talent. As of yet it has been found to have no significant value other than serving as an excellent target for practicin' and obstructin' my view of them other trucks crossin my line of travel.

Red Nekk: "Officer, no 'fence but if the stinkin government wasnt usin' all ma tax money on putting up them useless rectangle stop sign thingys, maybe dead guy over there woulda seen me drivin this way and woulda stopped. Coulda saved this here wreck from hapenin'."

by ClothyMonster April 24, 2011

Signifiant

(Adjective): Trying to be daring and audacious in a big way.

Combination of 'significant' and 'defiant'.

"Cyclists blocked car traffic as part of their signifiant campaign to force the city to create more bike lanes."

"Dude, trying to chat up that hot girl you had no chance with was signifiant!"

by Skai February 9, 2009