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postmodernism

An ideology based upon the silly idea that metaphors can meaningfully serve as the subject of a transitive verb. Favored by university faculty who have nothing better to do than waste my time.
Colleague: This modality of the social construction of gender can _speak_ causally, but it cannot _think_ causally.

Me: You are wasting my time with this silly postmodernism.
by Ludwig Wittgenstein February 9, 2009
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awesome possum

Interjection. Similar to: alrighty, awesome, schweet, coolz.

Mild & amiable in tone. Used in affirmation, agreement, or as a pleased reaction to something.

Often used as a reply to the word "awesome."
Brad: Want to go into the creepy haunted house with me?
Janet. Sure.
Brad: Awesome.
Janet: Awesome possum.
by Lady Chevalier June 13, 2005
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cosmic possum

A person whose roots are Appalachian, but who has gone on to become educated while still appreciating his or her mountain roots. Coined by Jane Hicks in the poem "How We Became Cosmic Possums" and referred to in Sharyn McCrumbs's novel, "The Songcatcher".
JohnBoy of the old TV show, "The Walton's" was the first cosmic possum.
by GiggyGennelle July 25, 2010
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postmarital sex

Sex with your ex; often shameful, and rarely a good idea. The imbibing of too much alcohol and the existence of too much loneliness are contributing factors to this condition.

(aka the postmarital pickle tickle)
Did I just see your ex-wife driving away from your house?
Yeah, we were engaging in a little postmarital sex.
by SirHangDangly March 1, 2011
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dodging possum

the act or process of avoiding a clingy, needy, sexually ostentatious skank
Man, when is that woman going to leave me alone! I've been dodging possum all day.
by Ffej April 5, 2004
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Postmortem Depression

Postmortem Depression (PMD) is a form of clinical depression which often affects people, less frequently deer, after becoming what medical experts around the world refer to as "dead."

Symptoms include sadness, fatigue, changes in sleeping and eating patterns, reduced libido, crying episodes, excessive rotting, anxiety, colonic-maggot infestation, and irritability.

Physicians around the world report increasing rates PMD over the last few decades. In a recent medical double-blind study, results showed that 98% people will die at some point in their life. Out of those, 40% will be diagnosed with PMD, an increase over 27% in 2000, 14% in 1990, and -3% in 2 billion BC.

It is sometimes assumed that PMD is caused by a lack of nutrition (a result of one's digestive system being decomposed) but studies tend to show that more likely causes are the significant changes in a person's (or deer's) hormones during death. On the other hand, hormonal treatment has not helped postmortem depression victims; scientists are still baffled by these findings.

A debunker of the "Hormonal Imbalance Theory," Dr. Isaac Goldbergshtein, of the National Postmortem Depression Research Institute for the Advancement of the Medical Understanding of the Human Mind (more commonly referred to as NPDRIftAotMUotHM), says, "The findings are clear. Injecting a victim of PMD with hormonal injections only results in them being just as dead, if not deadER than they were before. It's just common sense."
Guy 1: "Dude, have you seen Tyrone? For the last 2 weeks since he died after being accidentally shot by a cop 11 times in the face, he just SITS there on the couch, rotting. He doesn't eat, he doesn't sleep, he doesn't go out partying, he hasn't even gone to work in 3 days! We should really talk to him..."

Guy 2: "Yeah, he's really suffering from a severe case of Postmortem Depression."
by Razgriz117 July 22, 2010
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possum people

1. The collective of people from the backwoods, swamp regions, country, or otherwise rural areas that possess possum-like attributes, i.e. long frame, thin face, close eyes, and long nose.

2. Those that might possess the physical attributes of an inbred population.

3. Those that rarely enter heavily populated areas, only purchases beer and ammunition, and quickly retreats to their native area.
1. "Squirrel season must be about to start. All the possum people are in town."
2. "They're married, but they look like siblings. They must be possum people."
by Little Pequaywan December 8, 2015
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