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Noun. Edress in BBS days refered to the specific memory location within a computer system where electronic messages could be left for a person or organization for later retrieval.
The name e-mail later won out over edress (maybe it sounded too much like clothing?).
Edress is still used today to refer to a name or a sequence of characters that designates an e-mail account.
I first coined this word back in the 1980's BBS (Bulletin Board System) days of computer science (Someone else may have thought of it before me, but I thought of it on my own as well).
If you give me your edress I will forward the e-mail to you.
edress by Chris W. Coldren June 11, 2006
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Edrev • edrees • edrei • Edreign • Edren • Edrena • Edreys • Esrever • eBrevia • Edervention
Edress in BBS days refered to the specific memory location within a computer system where electronic messages could be left for a person or organization for later retrieval.
The name e-mail later won out over edress (maybe it sounded too much like clothing?).
Edress is still used today to refer to a name or a sequence of characters that designates an e-mail account.
I first coined this word back in the 1980's BBS (Bulletin Board System) days of computer science (Someone else may have thought of it before me, but I thought of it on my own as well).
If you give me your edress I will forward the e-mail to you.
edress by Chris W. Coldren June 11, 2006
Esrever is a language made up of simply reversing words in the English language that can be modified to fit any language. Esrever is simply the word REVERSE in reverse. It is a much more difficult way of communicating among friends than Pig Latin, or any other made up languages that actually state the word with things added on as a suffix or prefix. Esrever changes the entire word completely in reverse. There are no apostrophes in the origional of this language, you must speak every word by itself, but after awhile, as all other languages, you may adjust it as you wish. Also, pronounciation is an indefinate character. That is decision is left to the individuals speaking, just make sure that you and your friends are all on the same page when it comes to your in particular way of pronouncing words, so not to cause confusion.
An example of Esrever:

Friend 1: Tahw si pu?

Friend 2: Ton hcum, tahw tuoba uoy?

Friend 1: I ma ytterp doog. Nac ton nialpmoc.

Friend 2: Emosewa.
Esrever by 3\/13 September 18, 2006
Edreys is a lyricist from Buffalo, New York. His songs actually tell stories and his production isn't the average, "Boom, Boom, CLAP," like many songs today. His production is musically based and all types of people can appreciate his tunes.

Edreys (pronounced E-DREASE) translates into the “one who masters the pen”.
Edreys is The Sidewalk Scholar.

"Edreys doesn't have to rap about his chains and cars, he has 'superman swag.'"
Edreys by mackrock17 April 3, 2008
Any tall ass sesame street vampire count dracula Rusian-Afghan lookin mother fucker
Did you see that new kid, he looked like a real edreece.
edreece by rns-mf May 14, 2014

ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup I 

"I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it" sung backwards in the song Work It of Missy Elliott.
Is it worth it, let me work it
I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup I
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Person B: "Wow, EBK."
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Blexas has been cited as possible in the upcoming decades, but only if Democrats continue to win the Hispanic vote in bigger margins.
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Democrat 2: Well uh, Blexas!
Democrat 1: You've been saying that since 2008 though.
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briefcake 

"Did you check out the briefcake in courtroom C?"
briefcake by Ben Frey April 6, 2006
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Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.
Ratfucker by Ricky Ramjet November 2, 2017
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