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Ballistic Prose
Words and phrases specifically manufactured/defined in order to mislead careless, irresponsible and deceptive journalists/writers.
{An innovative, percussive and aggressive method/style of writing wherein the author intentionally creates a word/phrase and a definition for the word/phrase as a weaponized literary instrument, objectively targeting and penetrating conventional thinking, culturally imposed dogmatic norms and multi-layered veils of psychosocially nurtured concepts. Ballistic Prose is a baiting tactic aimed in the direction of reckless, quasi-intellectual journalism with the supreme achievement occuring when journalists utilize such manufactured, Ballistic Prose words/phrases as credible terms, descriptors and characterizations as part of a legitimate literary composition, thus signifying the infiltration of artificially modernized etymology and its manifestation as an extension of an elaborate ruse}.
{An innovative, percussive and aggressive method/style of writing wherein the author intentionally creates a word/phrase and a definition for the word/phrase as a weaponized literary instrument, objectively targeting and penetrating conventional thinking, culturally imposed dogmatic norms and multi-layered veils of psychosocially nurtured concepts. Ballistic Prose is a baiting tactic aimed in the direction of reckless, quasi-intellectual journalism with the supreme achievement occuring when journalists utilize such manufactured, Ballistic Prose words/phrases as credible terms, descriptors and characterizations as part of a legitimate literary composition, thus signifying the infiltration of artificially modernized etymology and its manifestation as an extension of an elaborate ruse}.
1. 'Seismic Aqueous Waveform S.A.W.' is an example of a ballistic prose characterization for a ridiculously large wave. There is no such thing as a S.A.W.
2. "Dude, NBC just referred to the most recent ocean wave surge as a 'Seismic Aqueous Waveform'. Do they have any clue that there is no such thing as a Seismic Aqueous Waveform? Lol!"
3. {Hambone reads and replies to one of D Dog's recent definitions on UD} "D Dog, your definitions are such a lively form of 'Ballistic Prose!" {D Dog replies} "Hambone, you just invented the term to describe this style off writing = Ballistic Prose."
2. "Dude, NBC just referred to the most recent ocean wave surge as a 'Seismic Aqueous Waveform'. Do they have any clue that there is no such thing as a Seismic Aqueous Waveform? Lol!"
3. {Hambone reads and replies to one of D Dog's recent definitions on UD} "D Dog, your definitions are such a lively form of 'Ballistic Prose!" {D Dog replies} "Hambone, you just invented the term to describe this style off writing = Ballistic Prose."
Ballistic Prose by Charitable Disguise January 3, 2020
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kickin' ballistics
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going ballistic
Becoming fully, truly, unstoppably, gravitationally angry. Usually of a person or semi-sentient animal that can experience anger.
References ballistic missiles, whose flight paths are nearly un-alterable after a certain point.
References ballistic missiles, whose flight paths are nearly un-alterable after a certain point.
going ballistic by 4onen March 2, 2016
bilgistic
"You are nothing less to me than a bilgistic pile of love meat"
"That's not very bilgistic of you"
"I'm not the one that's bilgistic, you're the one that's bilgistic"
"That's not very bilgistic of you"
"I'm not the one that's bilgistic, you're the one that's bilgistic"
bilgistic by Barry Lemon August 4, 2007
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AY CARAMBA DONDE ESTA LA BIBLIOTECA by Heb1 April 17, 2021
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