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Defensive Shopping

Buying presents for acquaintances out of fear they might surprise you with a gift.
"Great!" I'll have to start my defensive shopping tonight after work. I have a bad feeling Peggy's gonna surprise me with one of those sweaters she loves to knit for Christmas.
by Adam (______) The Person December 21, 2008
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Devenged

To not get revenge; To do the right/nice thing
Jack's friend, Mark throw a water balloon on him, although Jack was mad, he devenged Mark.
by CaptainJefe December 16, 2009
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Defenestrate

Yes, it's a real word. From the Latin "De Fenestra", or "Of the window", to defenestrate something is the act of throwing a noun, usually a tangible, physical entity, out of one.
Yeah, none of these IT solutions are working... What's that? Defenestrate it? Isn't that a bit harsh?
by Dion the Unstable November 9, 2010
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Defensive Screen look

When a person looks at your screen in Splitscreen Multiplayer to avoid being killed.
Paul was going to sneak up and knife John in MW2 but he Defensive Screen looked and turned around and killed him!
by CH4OS October 5, 2011
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Defender of the Downtrodden

A man known to officials only as "Mister E." (pronounced "mis-tuh-ree"), that watches over Baltimore's downtrodden. It is rumored that when he was a younger affluent man, he was jailed after being falsely accused of a crime that would have had him killed had he not been saved by a poor, uneducated, black man in his cell.
Man, you hear that the Defender of the Downtrodden has gotten another brother released from that slammer?

Look, a bird, a plane, the Defender of the Downtrodden.
by HCE123 June 20, 2011
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Defender of Open Source

Each and every person who defends open source software is a superhero--a superhero who shall be rewarded when the time comes for open source software to dominate the world.
I shall do whatever is necessary to defend, promote, and advocate free libre open-source software. I'm proud to be a Defender of Open Source.
by Bad C dev March 5, 2021
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MW Defense

The MW defense is applied to any situation when someone informs you of your actions during the night before's drinking. if your actions were a bit out of order or caused a little hassle you defend by replying "but it was funny, right?"

if the reply is yes then chances are you got away with it.

so named for the fact MW aka Mikk Savage aka Michael Werninck coined the phrase and used it frequently.
The MW Defense
Rockwell informs MW of his actions at Jonny's 21st, namely saying getting wasted and then threatening to kill Jonny's dog, before hiding under a table amongst other things

MW: yeh but it was funny right?

Rockwell: it was.... then it wasn't
by El Prydero November 6, 2010
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