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Active Shooter 

One or more subjects who participate in a shooting spree, demonstrating their intent to continuously harm others.  Their overriding objective appears to be mass murder, rather than other criminal conduct, such as robbery, hostage taking, etc.
The first officers on scene engaged the ACTIVE SHOOTER in the main hallway of the school.

Active Shooter 

An active shooter is someone who gets a lot of consecutive hoops in basketball.
“Tyler is an active shooter today”
“I got sent to the principal’s office because I yelled “ACTIVE SHOOTER IN THE BUILDING!!”

Active shooter 

A shooter who is not passive by nature.
The active shooter was always active in the community, always motivated, always doing fun things like skydiving or rock climbing. Perhaps the active shooter just got bored due to lack of activity. The active shooter was never passive or hesitant at any time.
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piddlefart

verb. To waste time doing nothing.
Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
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anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
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square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
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A girl who does ballet and only talks about ballet. Her schedule is filled with dance classes which does not allow her to do any other activity.
"Hey, do you know that girl Sally?"

"Yeah, she's kind of annoying. All she ever talks about it ballet."

"Wow, what a Bunhead."

"Hey Sally, you want to hang out this weekend?"
"I can't, I have dance."
"You're such a Bunhead."

"Yeah... I know."
Bunhead by Jen00 October 24, 2014
Word of the Day on October 6, 2026

trucker's tan 

A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
Word of the Day on October 5, 2026
The phenomenon where adults salivate at children's toys
Every time I walk into the toy aisle, I catch myself kidulting over the latest action figures and LEGO sets!
kidulting by Emotional Cruiser October 12, 2025
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