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Acronym. Pronounced "pause-wah". Means: Piece Of Shit, Walk Away.

You "call POSWA" on something when you're finally giving up on it because it's just not worth solving/fixing/dealing-with.

Sometimes it's used as the whole phrase instead of the acronym.

Source: Comedian Bill "the Man" Hicks.
"Dude, you've been beating your head against that broken computer for hours now. It's never going to work. Call POSWA on the damn thing and let's go."
POSWA by Tugrik April 21, 2009
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POSWA • poswacho • POSWAHAW • Poswatchy • posa • pogwater • Poowan • poowank • poowad • posada
An insult used to describe a person who is both asian and gay. They may also watch anime.

It is a british slang insult
Hey man, did you see that poowan at school today?

Yeah, what a little gay
Poowan by Bacon Randy April 10, 2019

Posadism 

A communist and Trotskyist ideology founded by J. Posadas (real name Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli). He taught that UFOS were sent by alien communist in order to inspire revolution on Earth. Also they believe dolphins can speak and that Sex and Jokes will be abolished in the future utopia. Posadism is the only true ideology, everything else is revisionism.
Revisionist Leftist: lol posadism is such a funny meme XD
True Follower of Posadas: Cthulhu fhtagn!
Revisionist’s head implodes
Posadism by TheRealPitbull November 22, 2020
Antonym of whitewash. A portmanteau of the term POC or Persons of Color and whitewashing that serves as the opposite meaning of whitewashing.

POCwash is the process of taking establish content and characters and supplanting them with Persons Of Color, when the original source material or historical event involved white people.
There has been a lot of POCwash in superhero movies as of late.
pocwash by Viroodiem October 22, 2018
Used to describe a person whom of which is homosexual, Asian and has a love for anime. The word is often used by the means of insulting another person and is usually used in the UK however the phrase is not used as much as it was in the late 2000s.
I'm actually sick of that Poowan trying to act all tough around my brother, the little rat thinks he's cool.
Poowan by Madu Wang February 23, 2019

Lick Her Postage Stamp

To eat her ass out. Eat booty.
When I get home tonight I’m gonna lick her postage stamp.
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