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posterized 

A slang term depicting a play in basketball. In said play, a player dunks the ball over top or in front of another player, making a play so picturesque that it may appear on a poster, hence the term, posterized.

Some players may have their own versions of this, such as Greg Ostertag of the Sacramento Kings. When someone is 'posterized' by Ostertag, they are 'Osterized'. This pay is known as 'dirty' and 'ugly' and is generally unwanted throughout the NBA.
a) Yo man! VC just posterized the Pistons! Ben Wallace, you's a poster!

b) (taken from live stat tracking)

3:44 4th - G. Ostertag dunks the ball.
3:44 4th - Officials timeout for audience to throw up in bathroom.
posterized by Uncle Ben November 29, 2004

Posterized 

Term in Basketball when one player dunks emphactally on an opposing player or in their face.
French center Frederic Weiss became the ultimate definition of posterized in history by Vince Carter of team USA in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Posterized by Smitty69 February 19, 2013

Pektorized 

When someone creates a half-assed task and then spends the next few days updating it and fixing it which makes you spend multiple days of redoing the work.Only to realize they don't know what they want from the beginning.
Our new PM created 12 tickets this sprint , we're gonna be so pektorized!
Pektorized by Sandmonkeybusiness November 9, 2020

pasteurized milk 

Milk from cows that live in pastures.
MMMM that that pasteurized milk is good. you can tell it doesn't come from battery cows.
pasteurized milk by Squecker February 28, 2007

Posterized 

To make a move on another athlete that makes them look bad.
Steve posterized Jeff when he dunked over him.
Posterized by Brian Pettit September 25, 2006

Pastorize 

The act of molestation upon a minor, as performed by a pastor.

Pastorize, pastorized, pastorization.
I am going to pastorize this choir by.
I don't go to church because I was pastorized.
There have been a cavelcade of pastorization cases in town.
Pastorize by Queefmobile December 20, 2020
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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.
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Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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