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The use of legal system to overwhelm an opponent, such as to stop or destroy them.
All's fair in love and war, but in lawfare, the person with the most money or best legal team, can make justice seem unfair.
Lawfare by mlhiss December 8, 2016
Word of the Day on July 2, 2024
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This word is often used by common criminals to describe the application of the law against them.
Man! The lawfare was insane, I was getting busted every where I went.
Lawfare by Therry October 15, 2013
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An incendiary made-up term that creates baseless slander through inuendo.
His Rape, Insurrection and 34 Felony Convictions were all just political Lawfare.
Lawfare by Truth Crusader February 7, 2025
To subject someone to strategic or excessive legal action, often as a means of intimidation or harassment.
Her opponent used LAWFARE to have her arrested, because they wanted to silence her political voice, and her political influence.
LAWFARE by 4EVA R October 3, 2025
Lawfare is the deliberate subjection of an entity to excessive and unnecessary legal action in order to silence them and destroy what they stand for.
A current example would be the lawfare against Valve, from several parties like the State of New York and the government of the United Kingdom. This is likely happening because Valve is one of the few remaining privately owned technology corporations, and as a result have not gotten on board with ID verification on their platform, Steam. This makes the oligarchs and governments very angry, seeing the company as an obstruction of their goal of mass surveillance and data harvesting, and as a result, they seek to destroy them through lawfare or force Valve to comply with the bullshit.

lawarence 

Lawarence...more than likely an old person who likes gardens. Who has two daughters..
Person 1: "..Hey I got these Veggies."
Lawarence: "..Ok..what do you want me to do?"
Person 1: "..Pick them.."
Lawarence: "..Your young..you do it!"
lawarence by FOR HE SHALL LIVE ON November 25, 2016
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age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 27, 2026

board chow 

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007
Word of the Day on August 26, 2026
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