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A common misspelling of "receive". Some smartasses like to "criticize" this mistake, but "they're" usually the ones who make the actually irritating misspelling of many other words.
Look at these morans! 'Their' 'writting' the word receive wrong, but 'there' 'totaly' 'delireious' 'aboot' it! They 'should of' not 'writen' recieve!
recieve by DJDash February 28, 2009
A misspelling of a simple word children learn to spell correctly at around 8 or 9. That's not criticism - it's observation and it's only an action of "smartarses" to point out errors when they do it badly. Spelling is easy - it's the writing which takes thought.
Did you recieve the receipt ?
recieve by spielie December 6, 2009
Recieve is an extremely common and irritating misspelling of Receive. Receive, as you know, means to have aquired something. If you see the word 'Recieve' written anywhere, criticise whoever wrote it. their spelling pure ignorance.
examples of stupid mistakes are all around us. recieve is one of them.
recieve by Róbbi Skæra September 8, 2006
You honestly should not be called illiterate for such a mistake. This word is just truly deceptive.
Jim: I just recieved 4 bucks from my mom's life insurance

Bob: Do you mean received?

Jim: BUT IT LOOKED SO RIGHT WHY GOD WHY

recieve him 

recieving GOD
"recieve him"
recieve him by sherisse March 23, 2010

Push button, Recieve Bacon 

A humorous meme that began with a photo of an electric hand drier with the pictures describing how to use the machine. (One presses the button to begin the airflow) The images looked like they described "Push button to receive bacon"
*Guy looks at hand drier* "Ooh! Look! Push button, Recieve Bacon !"
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"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
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Slop Grenade

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Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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