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brillant 

Being incompetent, having a grossly inflated sense of one's competence, and possibly being lazy too, with the result being a very bad (or non-working) design or implementation. Often used in conjunction with the name "Paula". Originates from a post on The Daily WTF (an online forum discussing examples of bad programming practices) where a lazy programmer named Paula had coded exactly five lines of Java for a major project in several months and had managed to bullshit her way through weekly meetings regarding her progress. One of the lines was:

private String paula = "Brillant";

whose sheer elementariness, inappropriateness in production code, narcissism and self-inflation, with a weird spelling for "Brillant" on top of everything else, was deemed memorable.
"Have a separate table for each customer instead of a field in a single table? That's brillant!"
brillant by AnonGoat June 11, 2006

brillant 

Not to be confused with brilliant.

Adjective, indicating an amazing lack of skill coupled with an incredible blindness to aforementioned lack of skill.
package test;

public class paulaBean {

private String paula = "Brillant";

public String getPaula() {
return paula;
}
}
brillant by Cyresse September 11, 2005
The most amazing person in the world. Almost as amazing as Obama, lil has x, and Dababy combined.
Wow! That amazing person is such a brylan!
Brylan by FirstPersonAlive November 29, 2021
The most amazing person in the world... very attractive. Tends to be very sweet, smart, kind, bold, athletic, strong, loving and caring. He gets all the girls!
Wow, do you see that hot guy over there?! He must be a Brylan!!
Brylan by Killingit2840 October 2, 2016
That one 6 ft absolute chad who shows up to a party then which after whilst you are playing tf2 makes you give him a gawk gawk 3000 whilst you are sitting in a $399 pewdiepie gaming chair, whilst he screams hate speech at you and calls you a pencil dick. He will also force you to give him a upside down triple twisty gawky 9000 at any moment he wants, he will do it. But he is a big bro and really funny.
P1: That guy over there is the host of this party

P2: He looks like a Bryland.
A Bryland by TheGirthyFlute5000 October 29, 2020

Brylan Bristopher Woods 

Also known as Sadbrylan92, plays CS:GO on Youtube
Character of streamer noob dog
Not much worth living for but i'm still here in this meat vessel to the living world... *sigh* I'm just getting bored of what this world offers. Nothing but pain and suffering. And to make things worse our IMPEACHED president Donald J. Drumpf is ruining our planet and our country. Why has god forsaken us? 2019 was so bad. New decade new me.

Rip lil peep, XXX, Juicewrld - legends die young
-Not much worth living for but i'm still here in this meat vessel to the living world... *sigh* I'm just getting bored of what this world offers. Nothing but pain and suffering. And to make things worse our IMPEACHED president Donald J. Drumpf is ruining our planet and our country. Why has god forsaken us? 2019 was so bad. New decade new me.

Rip lil peep, XXX, Juicewrld - legends die young
-Brylan Bristopher Woods
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anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
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"You're such a Bunhead."

"Yeah... I know."
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trucker's tan 

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I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
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British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”

Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murderer used a serrated blade.
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