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nuclear option 

The new, hip word for 'last resort' coined by the creative vocabularies in the united states senate.
Buying out the Mom & Pop store was the nuclear option.
nuclear option by Brisk June 3, 2005

nuclear option 

The term for the Republican maneuver to severely limit filibusters in the Senate, thereby granting a large amount of power to a simple Majority.
If the GOP excercises the nuclear option, the U.S. is in deep doo-doo.
nuclear option by GPF April 11, 2005

Nuclear Option 

When a group outlandishly robbed something, then whine as if they are being mistreated when others try to interject them from bringing the stolen good home.
The republican party invoked the nuclear option to confirm gorsuch to the supreme court, dude who should have never been there

Nuclear option 

The BEST option! Light them up! We'll see how tough they are with their bones disintegrated.
Hym "The best option! The nuclear option! Get em. Get em out of here. Let's all go meet God together!"
Nuclear option by Hym Iam August 22, 2025

Nuclear option 

YEAH BABY! LIGHT EM UUUUUP!
Hym "SPEAKING OF the nuclear option, don't separate it from a power source. I see you blowing up oil factories... I mean, that's obviously the first thing you would try. Why would you think I wouldn't have thought of that already? Did you even read my thing?"
Nuclear option by Hym Iam August 31, 2025

The Nuclear Option

The common act when a classmate searches something embarrassing on your school computer so you get revenge by searching, on their computer, "gay down syndrome midget BBC zootopia fart p*rn" on their computer as revenge.
Classmate: WTF why did you search that on my computer?! The school will see it on my browsing history

Other guy: I had to take the nuclear option unfortunately
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A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
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