Guilty until alternate suspect principle

The idea that someone is guilty unless they can come up with another person who is either guilty or a strong suspect. The idea is usually based on an imprecise process of elimination.

Parent to child: Did you do it?
Child: No.
Parent: Well if you didn't do it, then who did?
Nearby observer: Ah ha, she's using the guilty until alternate suspect principle.

by BillyBuggy March 17, 2011

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Beta Male (Alternate definition)

A person who tells Dad jokes and thinks they are still an Alpha male.

John said "I am from Oregon and blood courses through my oregons" John is now a Beta Male (Alternate definition)

by Geldsheisser October 23, 2020

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Fifth Alternate

Term used by Alyssa Edwards in Rupaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2. A fifth alternate is someone that should’ve been fifth but instead it was sixth in line. In fact back in her season she was in the top 6 after she lost her lipsync versus Coco Montrese, saying the she should have been top 5 without being shady.

And I was a lovely...fifth alternate.

Did I you see that lipsync? She is surely a fifth alternate.

by PrettyShade May 27, 2018

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TRUMP ALTERNATE REALITY SYNDROME (TARS)

The condition wherein Donald Trump's (deplorable) base ignores his countless lies, and ignores his countless misstatements of facts. These loyal followers, suffering from T.A.R.S., choose to give their leader/ paper tiger, a PASS on all the diarrhea that spews forth from his mouth. These sufferers live in a dimension where facts don't matter. "Alternative Facts" are an acceptable substitute.

At the Thanksgiving dinner table, I listened in disbelief as my redneck Uncle Cletus, who suffers from Trump Alternate Reality Syndrome (TARS), waxed philosophic about Donald Trump's "record-breaking inauguration crowds".

by DemocracyLover4EVA January 8, 2019

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