urban recession

the dramatic decline in creativity and humor in recent urbandictionary definitions. Most evident in the Word of the Day selection.

"Stanky Leg" is Word of the Day? My God, it's an urban recession!

by Charles M. February 21, 2009

the recession

Where you use the same condom for a week.

I'm so poor I can't afford new condoms I'm in the recession.

by hopkins and cruz December 30, 2009

Great Recession

Buzzword for the economic collapse of post 9/11 America. Actually started in '01 but peaked around '06-'08 all the while while we were being told that we weren't even IN a recession (until late Nov. '08 when Bush was ousted, hmmm). Symptoms of GR include, but are not limited to, huge pay cuts, massive job losses, homelessness, foreclosures, and a rise in the crime rate.

Damn, remember how things were before the Great Recession when all we had to worry about was if Clinton was getting head in the Oval Office? Now we have to worry about the whole fucking world hating us & wanting us dead.

by Bangboy March 8, 2010

Obama Recession

Term used mostly by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh to blame the election of Barack Obama for the economic recession. Although it all started before his election and almost all analysts blame other factors like weak economic data and worries about other bailouts.

Rush Limbaugh: "The Obama recession is in full swing, ladies and gentlemen. Stocks are dying, which is a precursor of things to come. This is an Obama recession. Might turn into a depression. He hadn't done anything yet, but his ideas are killing the economy. His ideas are killing Wall Street. They need some certainty. (...) The markets are frozen because they really don't know how fast Obama is going to embark on his own destruction of the U.S. economy via his tax increases.

Sean Hannity: "It's under $55 a barrel. And by the way, Wall Street keeps sinking. Could it be the Obama recession: the fear that taxes are gonna go up, forcing people to pull out of the market? (...) This is really the Obama recession in this sense, that people that have money are looking at this, "Look, if he is true to his word, you know what? I'm getting out now." And he's the only president that has seen this dramatic decline in the stock market in the post-war era.

by Captain Sham December 9, 2008

bankogenic recession

A bankogenic recession is a recession caused by bankers being reckless and making mistakes.

The phrase was first coined by London Mayor Boris Johnson in an interview with The Times newspaper (UK) on 6th December 2008.

In The Times inteview Boris Johnson said. “I’m a friend of the bankers but do not forget this is a bankogenic recession. It wasn’t produced by some oil shock, it was produced by a crisis in the financial services industry.”

by Caiptean August 29, 2009

Punctuation Recession

When you're texting/ emailing and your friend responds with one too many punctuation marks.

Bob: hey!!!!!!!!! what's up??

Bob: well...................................

You: Bob, don't you know we're in a punctuation recession?

by fakename!!123!! January 11, 2011

Rat recession

If Generation Z doesn't wake up and fight with the rest of us, we're all going to have to ask somebody else permission or have to prove ourselves to somebody else to go anywhere or do anything, and forget working a steady job like our predecessors, that won't be there anymore. Democracy will be gone and nobody will question it.

Another rat recession brought on by a pestilence this time, since a pestilence awakens in darkness. There is no light at the end of the tunnel when you're not stuck in a dark tunnel, there is only light.

by The Original Agahnim December 31, 2021