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(verb) to look up information on the internet or by other means with regards to a potential hire or applicant to get an idea as to what they are like. Can be detrimental if you have stupid pictures of yourself doing a beer bong or making out with a farm animal.

A combination of the prefix "pre," and the word "research"

-ing (present tense, VT); -ed (past tense)
Me: How did your job interview go?

Them: Well, I got a call back canceling the interview. They presearched me and found that pic at your party of me making out with your dog. I guess they don't take to kindly to that...

Me: WTF?
presearch by mkultra4013 February 13, 2010
Presearch is what science fiction writers do when they write works of fiction that over time come to be in reality iow become predictive, if even prophetic.
Who would’ve thought that when science fiction writers wrote of hostile takeovers of artificial intelligence, that they had actually done the presearch, and come up decades ago with the issues and situations society now contends with?
Presearch by ka the wordsmythe August 31, 2025

Presearch It! 

1. To "Presearch" something, meaning to look it up/search on Presearch.Org

Presearch is a Decentralized Search Engine
- Search privately
- Receive better results
- Get rewarded with the Presearch decentralized search engine in $PRE

- Powered by blockchain technology.
Visit Presearch.org, use it just like Google but you get better results/privacy/and get rewarded.
At Presearch enter for the following to Presearch It!: "What is the price of BTC"
Presearch It! by MechanicJoe October 5, 2021

Spontaneous Research Call

A Spontaneous Research Call, SRC is a prank call placed to a business in order to research how ridiculously far companies will go to please their customers for more business. Such calls may also be made to international embassies and the like, to confirm or deny media reports. They are often prompted by a crazy tabloid news story in popular culture.

Spontaneous Research Calls have been coined and popularized by The Sir Darryl Radio Experience , the most listened to radio program on the internet.

Sir Darryl will call companies and it reveals the absurdity of our corporate and customer service culture that will say yes to anyone who offers money, notoriety or other compensation. Sometimes, the company's spin machine is at work. At other times, these calls expose the genuine professionalism and helpfulness of the representative. Sir Darryl calls funeral homes, landlords, pharmacies and the like, with unusual requests. The responses from the company reps are either completely insane or absolutely logical, but they almost always follow company policy.
In one Spontaneous Research Call, Sir Darryl called a cellphone company to find out if they could send him a separate phone bill that his wife couldn’t see so that he could hide the fact that he was having multiple affairs. The customer service rep suggested different billing options and promising that the company would not reveal anything to his wife. The rep also detailed exactly how it could be done using the company’s various billing delivery systems.

Shri Ram Consulting and Research Centre 

A professional body that provides pro bono research and consultancy services to NGOs, start-ups and corporations like Uber, ITC, Akzonobel and many more, while simultaneously ensuring a smooth and joyous learning experience that would help in CV and profile building as well.
Every Commerce student has two dreams: first is to get admission in SRCC, and the second is to get enrolled in Shri Ram Consulting and Research Centre.

For research purposes 

An expression often used by men online who want to know the name of a certain video or person so they can store it in their spank bank.

It's synonymous with saying, "so I can fap to this later on."
Can anyone tell me the name of that girl in the video with the big boobs? For research purposes, of course.
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I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
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"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

or, in a positive usage:

"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
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