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Imagineering 

Engineering things out of thin air. A conjunction between the words imaginary and engineering. Basically used to describe how people first say that something will be made or done, then actually get down to doing it.
A classic example of imagineering in action is how America is "dealing" with its financial crisis by just making more money without logically thinking about all of the consequences that will follow. Tsk tsk America, you be fuckin up.
Imagineering by Xero _ Manifest December 24, 2010

imagineer 

the ability mentally put together a design or idea,seeing it in its own reality
i looked at the bare patch of land and imagineered the house of my dreams built apon it
imagineer by serendipitous magnet February 27, 2015

imagineer 

to both imagine and create something that is new. The new creation must be tangible though which is in fact the key point of this term.
Credit to Lyndon Barends who imagineered the term
the creation of a container in which lightning is stored (just an "off the cuff" idea but yet to create!)
in fact all inventions where imagineered :-)
imagineer by Cliff V Petersen January 9, 2009

Imagineer 

Person who uses their imagination in whatever it is that they do.
They employed an imagineer to help them in thinking up some background story and personality to their characters.
Imagineer by LadyBeta May 25, 2011

Imagineer 

title given to a Disney employee, specifically one that designs things for the parks.
A Disney Imagineer is always hard at work.
Imagineer by DISNEYAWESOME May 18, 2010

imagineering 

Imagineering is fused from the words Imagination and Engineering.

The first referenced use of the word Imagineering comes from an article dated 2nd May 1947 in the Portsmouth (Ohio) Times. The article describes the work of a top-notch commercial illustrator Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974)
imagineering is what we do when we use our imagination in the non phicisal world to engineer something tangible in the phisical world
imagineering by Mike Rumble January 7, 2008
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proper lad 

a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
person1:did you see bob
person2: ya he was a proper lad
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Me: Poggers!
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Oblication 

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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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

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