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griswald 

Dirty, longhaired, bearded, often skanky mainly homeless!
Man that is one dirty GRISWALD!
griswald by Whisper M. February 1, 2009

griswald 

Tourist family, after the movie with Chevy Chase.
Tourist with big overloaded car or SUV, always lost, usually rude. Expression heard in Key West shortly after the first "Griswald" movie.
oh geez, lookout here come the Griswalds.
Hey, Griswald senior tips good, for a Griswald.
griswald by Al Graham September 6, 2005

griswald knot 

A large and complicated knot. Taken from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when the main character, Clark Griswald, passed off a string of lights in a basketball sized knot to his son. It's most commonly seen made of electrical cords from game consoles and computer systems.
Good luck getting that out. It's wrapped itself into a Griswald Knot.
griswald knot by shrkdrvr January 11, 2008

Griswald syndrome 

Fear or anger felt upon the realization that you neighbors have more holiday lights than you do.
Lori developed Griswald syndrome after seeing her neighbors Christmas lights. All she talks about is how she needs to get more lights up.
Griswald syndrome by taprad1 December 18, 2008

Lazy Griswald

When someone decorates for Christmas by buying lots of large tacky items and then scattering them over their property to make it look like a ton of effort. Especially applicable to large numbers of inflatable decorations.
Have you seen Mike Bs house, thats a real Lazy Griswald
Lazy Griswald by Bush mick December 14, 2020

rusty griswald 

when you get poop on your penis after packing someone's fudge.
I bet that queer has a rusty griswald.
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Frothability 

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Soul digger

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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
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