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Noun: A pair of sunglasses worn at rave parties.

The origins of the timeless practice of sporting sunnies in a dark nightclub or pitch-black field is shrouded in mystery, however recieved explanations include; (a) their usefulness in concealing dinner-plate pupils and/or redness, rolling or foaming of the eyes, and (b) the trip-friendly apricot hue they bestow upon viewed objects.

Nowadays, raviators are often worn as an assertion that the wearer is pumped full of party drugs, in an ironic reversal of their original role as a facade of sobriety. A T-shirt emblazoned with the sentence "I'M OFF MY FACE MATE!" would be only marginally more blatant.

Any pair of sunglasses serves as raviators, but the most coveted tend to be particularly outmodish or improbable e.g; those tragic cycling wraparounds from the 1980s embellished with bad neon / old school fat plastic reading-glasses missing lenses / red and green cardboard 3D spex / milk bottle bases held in wicker frames / normal sunglasses with eyes painted on the front / ones that light up or make a noise / seriously rubbish ones belonging to an aged relative / normal sunglasses worn upside-down or many pairs worn jointly. Originality is regarded as a relatively key aspect, although the tolerant philosophy behind raving renders its ultimate importance somewhat negligible.

Some swear by one trusty pair of raviators they've had since the acid house era whilst others buy a new pair in the pound shop prior to every party, savvy to the bad habit raviators have of attaching themselves to complete strangers' faces.
Raver A: Have you seen my raviators anywhere?
Raver B: Yeah, they're on some random in the gabba room
Raviators by crapriot January 3, 2009

Put your hands in God's Radiator 

Putting your hands in your balls for warmth.
Bob: "Its cold!"
Jack: "Just put your hands in god's radiator and you'll be fine"
Bob: "Thanks Buddy!"

radiator weed 

When the weed you get was dried to quickly/forced and as a result your weed is not consistently dry throughout the bud, it's slimy on the inside when you break it open, it tastes like grass, and the high lasts like 15-20 minutes. Biggest waste of tree you could possibly do... Growers, I'm speaking on behalf of the entire stoner community, please take the time to properly dry and cure your weed.
Grower: "Dude I can't wait any longer, this OG Bubba Kush is just begging to be smoked! I'm finna start harvesting homie."

Consumer: "Nah nigga no ones gonna wanna smoke that shitty radiator weed! Trust it's gonna be worth it waiting another week."
radiator weed by Fvcktrill May 6, 2015

radiator man 

A nickname given to me by Tara when she saw my penis.
Omg! That's a fuckin radiator hose.. I want it, Radiator Man!
radiator man by Power Sprayer August 28, 2020

Radiator springs 

Number 7: Student watches porn and gets naked. A Bangladeshi 20 year old student was arrested after watching porn, stripping naked, and attacking an attendant during a flight. In March 2018, shortly after the Malindo Air flight departed from Kuala Lumpur, the 20 year old started watching pornography on his laptop. As nobody seemed to notice or call him out for it, the man began taking his clothes off. At the request of the cabin crew, the student put his clothes back on, but soon he tried to hug female flight attendants. When the crew members rejected him, he reportedly became aggressive and groped a flight attendant. With the help of some of the passengers, the cabin crew managed to subdue the man, and tie his hands with a piece of cloth for the rest of the flight. One of the passengers captured the moment with his phone. Although airline officials refuse to confirm details of the incident, the photo of a man with his bottom sticking out of his pants and hands tied up emerged online. The disruptive passenger was arrested on arrival.

Radiator springs
Radiator springs by Number 7 December 6, 2020

racket behind the radiator 

The act of physically hiding but not doing a good job so a limb ends up sticking out at some weird angle.
Lora was a racket behind the radiator yesterday. I just had to laugh at her stupidity!
racket behind the radiator by Makoo January 16, 2008
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