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Clavinize 

To turn a simple answer into a long drawn out and useless lesson, much like the Cliff Clavin character in the television show "Cheers"
Don't Clavinize your answer, just give me the facts.
ex:If you were to go back in history and take every president, you'll find that the numerical value of each letter in their name was equally divisible into the year in which they were elected. By my calculations, our next president has to be named Yellnick McWawa.
Clavinize by Joe0403 December 19, 2008
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Clavining 

Appearing to work long hours while actually wasting incredible amounts of time and effort on nonsense
Rather than being diligent in his work, Quentin was caught clavining as he browsed golf swing tips during work hours.
Clavining by SCCDoge April 14, 2021
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Culvinize 

To needlessly complicate the solution to a problem, resulting in varying degrees of success. Culvinizing a situation can result in a brilliant, straightforward and simple solution. Likewise, it can result in a convoluted, messy duct-tape-and-baling-wire hack that will eventually fail in catastrophic fashion. Culvinization is heavily dependent upon the context of a situation -- it can be both good and bad.
"Man, that Angular Directive sure is Culvinized"
"A couple of 2X4s and some epoxy... I Culvinized it."
"Roll up your sleeves, boys, it's time to Culvinize this thing"
Culvinize by GRocky January 30, 2015

clarinizzle

A band geek term for the male genitalia staying true to ebonics.
"Foshizzle ma clarinizzle bitches"
clarinizzle by Bill Devogel January 7, 2008

Clarifize 

The issue was so important but difficult to understand, they decided to hold a meeting to clarifize it.
Clarifize by DaZmanBob October 8, 2011

Calvanized 

The feeling of loss that Shobs will experience when she finally realizes that she has lost the calve contest of 2008.
After my visit to the big D, Shob was left feeling rather calvanized.
Calvanized by kampat May 13, 2008

Calvinized 

When one is screwed over by someone named Calvin.
Batman: "Robin, Do you copy?"
Robin: "Go ahead, Batman"
Batman: "You've just been Calvinized"
Robin: "Oh, no he didn't!"
Calvinized by The Gibler October 30, 2011