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Consumption

Consumption is an old name for tuberculosis (TB) that describes how the illness wastes away or consumes its victims.
Characters in both Angela's Ashes and Moulin Rouge die of consumption.
by HayCat128 September 7, 2009
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A convenient way to kill off a character set in a film or book set in the olden days, i.e. the old west.
Wyatt Earp: "Hey, Doc, whassamatter? You've been a-hackin up blood a while now."

Doc Holiday: "Ah, it's nuthin. I got the consumption, tha's all."
by TheColera August 16, 2010
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In the old B&W movies, they always referred to a terminally ill person of a particular desease as having CONSUMPTION or they already died of it. C o n S u p t i o n . I have consumed my tipple of booze cheap too for 40+ yrs but I was never so insulted than recently at the Emergency Room not my taste of a 'room' when the nurse took off my masked/vail after I explained that I am a carrier of TB have been for 40 yearsand I am not dying from Consumption and she said WHAT? What is that ?... You consumed too much booze to go from the TANK at the local constable/constabulatory house to here at Veteran's Memorial Hospital!?!?" I was still so 'pizzed' , I could have Spit ! agin'
MoM always said don't spit in the streets but it's alright to get so mad that ya want to spit.... part Deux to follow about Cops,Rights,TB,undocumented aliens,tax payers,citizens , connecticut , yankeez not like idiot red sox

I can't believe that this spell-checkin'funky-monkey sez that I mis-spelled Conn., US of A !
that actress was destined to die of consumption !
Red said ' But she did LIVE , that sweet ol' HO'"
As Tom Chapin Harry's Bro' sang " Consumption Junction..... What's yer Function....."
WikiPedia can't touch this Consumption definition ! nor the Nat'l Assoc. of Naval Veterans , try to find that !
by Crickety Dick August 1, 2007
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Consumption Vortex

The fastest was to crush beers with the boys, once you enter the consumption vortex there’s no turning back.
It’s Friday lads, time to enter the consumption vortex.
by JarritoSuds April 17, 2020
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Consumption Vortex

when you have consumed the amount of alcohol where you have the ability to unlock 100% of your brain. exiting the simulation and entering a separate reality. the border of death but your too deep in the vortex to give a single fuck. nothing matters besides beer at this point. god bless you.
god made me to get lost in the consumption vortex
by Ryan Janka February 13, 2021
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consumption prostitute

A girl/woman who will do things like give attention/so interest, dance, have sex and sometimes even start a relationship for stuff like drinks, presents, drugs, housing/shelter.

They're mostly active during clubbing. It's often there where they will pick up and use their "customers" for the first time.
Wise girl: Do you know why she left you?

Bankrupt loser: I think, it's due to the fact that I couldn't give her what she wanted anymore, because she completely bankrupt me with her expensive taste.

Wise girl: Finally realize she used you? She's a consumption prostitute dude!
by consumption prostitute May 31, 2007
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Consumption bereavement

the process by which consumers react emotionally and behaviorally to the withdrawal of favourite brands.
Oh man they just stopped making my favorite ice-cream

Your suffering from Consumption Bereavement
by Dikc3s October 20, 2009
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