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Bioengineering

The direct and deliberate manipulation of living systems using engineering principles. It's the application of design, analysis, and construction to biology, treating cells and DNA as programmable hardware and software. This includes genetic modification of crops, designing microbes to produce pharmaceuticals, growing tissues in bioreactors, and creating synthetic biological circuits. It's not just studying life; it's inventing new forms of it to solve human problems.
Bioengineering Example: Creating a yeast strain Bioengineered to produce the antimalarial drug artemisinin instead of brewing beer, or designing bacteria that can detect and destroy cancer cells in the body, are acts of bioengineering. It's turning biology into a precise manufacturing technology.
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Bengineering 

The act of creating/modifying/ghetto-engineering something effectively, usually with great force and with as little financial outlay as possible.
"That looks like you made it out of zipties, ducttape and some wooden pallets. I'm getting tetanus just looking at it. Does it work?"

"I'm bengineering it. How could it not?"
Bengineering by orias0_o January 23, 2014
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bengineering 

ben·gi·neer·ing
   /ˌbɛndʒəˈnɪərɪŋ/ Show SpelledBen-juh-neer-ing

1. the art and/or science of making practical application of the knowledge of handy makeshift skills. Indirect application skills and solutions to form a valid solution. As in the innovation of repairs, tools, useless/full objects, words, etc...

2. the action, work, or profession of an Bengineer.

3. skillful or artful contrivance; maneuvering, sneaking.

Origin:1987–88; Bengineer + -ing1

—Related forms
non·Ben·gi·neer·ing, noun, adjective
pre·Ben·gi·neer·ing, adjective
Innovative Bengineering made this incredible feat possible.

Oh snap we've got some major issues here...looks like we better start to Bengineer a solution.

A: What are you Majoring at Harvard?
B: Civil Bengineering
bengineering by The Bizjam September 16, 2010

Bio engineering 

Slang term for hooking up or having sex.
After we had drinks, the new girl in accounting and I went back to my place for a little "bio engineering"!
Bio engineering by James Weyand February 17, 2006

Bongineering 

The act of contriving a bong out of Misc. parts.
Dude 1: "No bong dude? Well it looks we could use this for a downstem, and that bottle over there... we will need some bubblegum and a lighter too... Uhh You got any weed so we can try this out?"

Dude 2 : "uhh... No, I thought you had weed..."
Dude 1: "well we are going to have to find someone with some green to test out this feat of Bongineering."

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
Word of the Day on May 25, 2026

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
Word of the Day on May 24, 2026