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far-fetched 

adjective

-barely believable based on logical or normal thinking
syn: unbelievable, unlikely, improbable
Everybody was hoping for him to change, but it remains far-fetched.
far-fetched by Kirby Ocastro November 3, 2007

fetchez la vache 

French term for "Fetch the cow".
In the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, one French guard to another commands "fetchez la vache", and they catapult a cow over the castle.
1. a generally despicable person

2. a person who receives a lucky break/opportunity that you were hoping for

3. a single member of the notoriously unsuccessful boy-band "The Fetchers" from Wendover, NV
1. "Nate just ratted me out. What a fetcher!"

2. "I can't believe that fetcher got a star-lightning combo on the last track of Bowser's Castle."

3. "I heard the Fetchers broke up. I heard the short fetcher likes gay servicemen."
fetcher by Mudskins July 21, 2006
A word used in the Game "MorrowWind"tm by Bethesda Games, and related games, as an insult of the lowest kind.
"That Fetcher would sell his own Mother for the price of the look on her face."
fetcher by shogun459 November 27, 2016

Fetching 

very attractive; capturing interest;
"a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality"
Fetching by Lauren16 August 21, 2006

Fetching the cow 

to fetch the cow

verb

Taken from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", to fetch the cow is to react disproportionately and inappropriately over a very small insult or slight. Can also be shortened to simply "fetching".
Man 1: Your scarf's quite gay.
Man 2: Say's you, fucking homo, I hate you. Your mum's sucking my cock every night, and I'm wearing this fucking scarf when she does it.
Man 1: Mate, stop fetching the cow.
Fetching the cow by FetchezLaVache November 2, 2010
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Me: Poggers!
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A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
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Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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