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Digital Video Recorder

An electronic box that records your television shows onto a hard drive for viewing at anytime. The bigger the hard drive, the more hours it can record. You can easily fast forward, pause, and rewind while viewing these recorded programs. The quick fast forward allows you to easily skip through commercials saving precious time. Many DVRs have more than one TV tuner so you can record multiple programs at once.
Girl: Hey, I have to be home soon so I can watch America's Got Talent from 9 to 11pm.

Guy: You need to get a DVR girl, and watch it when you want! Nobody in their right mind sits for 2 hours and puts up with all those commercials anymore--and let's not forget the need to fast forward through some of those terrible acts!
DVR by marksuniverse September 15, 2010
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Dick Vagina Ratio. It's the ratio of dicks to vaginas. Often used to describe a party. A bad DVR will mean there is a lot of guys and no many girls, meaning it's a pickle party or sausage feast. If the the DVR is good, then there's just as many or more girls for guys at the party, hence a good party.
Hey, are you at the party? How's the DVR?

The DVR at the party last night was pretty good.
DVR by ChrisDizzowns November 3, 2007
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noun. the act of consuming, portraying or exuding a characteristic that is unattractive or excessively feminine.
adjective. a quality that minimizes the possibility of the desired outcome for the evening leading to excessively tight/painful scrotum.
verb. consuming, portraying or exuding a characteristic that constitutes "dvr" label.
Kean ordered a blue martini or DVR drink, prompting his lovely little lady to put her knees closer together.
dvr by Beach Bingers August 14, 2007
the fall of humanity
one day, those portable writable dvr discs will rule the world

DVR catch-up

'DVD catch-up' is when, while recording a game or other TV event on your DVR, you start watching the recording from the beginning - and as you come to the ads, timeouts, etc., you fast-forward through them, thus slowly catching-up on the event in real time.
Uncle Tony is so good at DVR catch-up, he usually syncs up with real-time just after the final ad.

DVR Credit 

The term DVR credit is the time earned when you pause or rewind live television on your DVR. You subsequently spend your DVR credit to fast forward through the commercials, or unwanted content.

DVR credit has a maximum value equal to the total time of the commercials/ unwanted content. If you record beyond this maximum value you’re just watching recorded television.

The term DVR credit was coined by early DVR adopters, from Chicago, IL.
"Dinner is ready, pause the game and we're earn DVR credit while we eat."

"Ok, lets spend some of our DVR credit and skip this crappy half time show."
DVR Credit by Machfast January 18, 2010

DVR blue-balled 

When your DVR'ed program leaves you hanging because you had it set from the top of one hour to the next, except the program actually ran one minute over, leaving you without a clue as to what happened at the end. This is particularly frustrating when you DVR a series finale.
I have no freaking clue what happened on the final episode of Nip/Tuck because I set the DVR to record from 9-10:00pm, but it didn't really end until 10:01pm. Can someone please tell me what the hell happened at the airport since I got DVR blue-balled??!?!??
DVR blue-balled by Tina1848 July 20, 2010
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