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AFC Spinney

The City of Cambridge UK's favorate group of teenagers, who have a football team and a boxing team. They have rapidly become very famous.

Many believe they'll take over the world with their awesome popularity.

One day many believe they will look silly, trying to unite people like this, but how can the common cause of goodness be seen as bad?
Wow, theres AFC Spinney, winning another game of football and/or boxing.

Who wudda' knew.
by ruffle January 25, 2006
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dick skinner

your hand, (ya know, the thing at the end of your wrist), can refer to either the right or the left hand
now, if any of you assholes have a question, youre gonna raise your little DICK SKINNER high in the air and ask it. y'understand that?
by b.w. 357 July 31, 2006
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spinners

Rims that run on a separate axle and pin even when the wheel is stopped.
by Anonymous August 18, 2003
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SPINTER

An appalling, Greedy, careless and invisible landord who simply expects to recieve monies without any personal responsibility or indeed acknowledgement that he/she has any sort of tenant that may or may not exist.
She's a skinny spinter with houses all over the shop....
by zebraboy777 September 8, 2010
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Skinnered

verb.

To be skinnered is to be drawn into an addictive behaviour by *intentional* B.F. Skinner inspired psychological tricks.

B.F. Skinner observed the behaviour of pigeons and rats in boxes which were rigged with buttons to release food. Where the switch consistently released food, the subjects were satiated, and only called for food when desired.

When the switch only dropped food randomly, the subjects pushed the button incessantly, whether they were hungry or not, and developed superstitious behaviours (looking over their shoulder). Perhaps they knew they could not trust the machine to give them food every time, and thus felt the need to stock pile as much as possible from this source? Perhaps they were trying to "game" the system - to learn how to get it to work consistently? Either way, they were hooked.

Many gambling machines lean heavily on this technique. In recent years, subscription based models of videogaming (notably MMOs) have used this approach in their game mechanics to encourage players to play for as long as possible, renewing their subscriptions at every payment interval.

However, now even web 2.0 style websites will reward schemes for mundane excercises.

To be skinnered, then, is to be duped into doing a repetitious task that you don't necessarily want to do, but have been compelled into doing by the application B.F. Skinner's psychological studies.
Johnny's not coming out tonight. He got skinnered by Starcraft II.

I don't actually want to use this app, but I'm skinnered by the banana points.

I got home, fully intended to go to bed early, but got stuck in the skinner box.

Felt totally skinnered by this otherwise unpleasant game. Stupid achievement points. I'm not playing because I want to. I'm playing because of a fucking carrot dangled infront of my face. I have no will power.
by HilariousCow August 16, 2010
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Love the Sinner, but Hate the Sin

An expression to affirm love for others even while expressing that their bad is really, truly wrong, disturbing, and often times embarrassing to be around.
I love you and value you, I really do. But I hate it when you binge drink and steal stuff from your roommates. I lose some admiration for you. I guess I Love the Sinner, but Hate the Sin.
by St. Augustine March 22, 2013
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skinners academy

This is a school is in hackney, It’s very very strict and full of wanna be roadman, i knew this guy that brought a shank to school and started crying when he got caught. This school has students that are either from; Jamaica, Kurds/Turks or Latin. Their are students that are from other places but it’s few. If you start year 7 here you will be so quite but after a few months you would be trying to pressure olders even tho you’ll end up getting robbed. Don’t go to this school it’s shit
“ ah he/she goes to that school skinners academy that is full of wannabe roadman! “
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