Aftervism

VERB: A form of social activism that occurs after a major political or social issue has been resolved or decisive action has been taken to bring the issue to resolution.

NOUN: 1)Marketing campaign focusing on a resolved issue or an issue in which government, independent aid organizations, and individuals have already accomplished most of what is necessary to resolve the issue.

The Kony 2012 campaign is an example of aftervism, as the United States government took action in 2010 to assist Uganda in the search for and capture of Kony and the International Criminal Court took action in 2005 to indict him for war crimes. His "reign of terror" has been over for some time, his power has been diminished, and he is on the run as a wanted war criminal being hunted by the US. The viral campaign has mostly raised awareness of an issue that has been nearly resolved, is over 20 years old, and mainly focused on selling bracelets and hanging posters. In this way the activists involved accomplish little, and have no noticeable impact on the issue beyond what has already been done.

by Jistein July 29, 2012

aftergasm

The calm, light-headed sensation after an earth-shattering orgasm has occured. This typically is accompanied by a tingling sensitivity triggered by the return of blood flow to all organs and extremities.

My aftergasm last night was wunderbar.

by c0x November 22, 2006

Asterism

Any one of a number of heinously outdated colloquialisms; their rhetorical power lies in their deplorable ability to frustrate or incite hilarity. Upon utterance, a speaker will likely generate the following behavioral, cerebral, or emotional responses:
1) Externalized disgust (behavioral)
2) Debilitating brain aneurisms (cerebral)
3) Crushing submission (emotional)
They should be avoided in day-to-day vernacular, and hopefully eventually removed from English nomenclature.

Various Asterisms:
Alas (conjunction)
Up a crick (prepositional phrase)
Circle the wagons (verb)
Po-dunk (adjective)
MMMMMkay (declarative)
Cotton-picking (adjective {racial})
By golly (declarative)
Gosh darn (defamatory)
Rats (declarative)
Hippity-hoppity (crack whore)
Gung-ho (adjective)
The list goes on...

by drizzake & co. April 23, 2008

Afterism

(n) - A concise, clever statement you don't think of until it's too late

"D*mn why do I think of good comebacks after arguements. Stupid Afterism."

by Xx T N T xX June 28, 2004

afterpiss

the piss used to clear the penal shaft of cum or shit after sex or jerking off. a woman may use the same method after a deposit in her forward hole.

during the afterpiss I hit the toilet tank with a cum/piss mixture due to a semi and the fact it took a moment to figure the combination pressure-to-backsteps ratio needed to ark the fluid into the bowl.

by the mac al March 4, 2006

aftertiming

When a person claims to be on the good side of a bet or prediction after the result without proving any evidence before or during the event.

It won @ big odds and i got a big chunk !! WUHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

by Dave Cooper April 24, 2005

aftervite

The word "invite" inherently has a sense of inclusion. By contrast, the aftervite is done after someone who is not originally intended to be invited to an event discovers its existence and is invited out of obligation.

Dude, I totally had to give Bob an aftervite to Melissa's surprise party. He heard about it and called me to see what what up.....sorry.

by aaronarchitect April 21, 2009