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Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)

A contemporary of Mozart, he worked at the Viennese court and eventually became Kappelmeister. There were rumours that he poisoned Mozart, and he even falsely confessed to poisoning Mozart when he was in his old age and a bit delusional, but these rumours are not true. Tried to take his own life in 1823.

Due to the works of Alexander Pushkin's 'Mozart and Salieri', and Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus', Salieri has been unfairly painted as a mediocre composer, though this is also not true.
Instead of creating his own opera, when Salieri became Kappelmeister, he revived Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'.
Salieri by C-chan December 31, 2004
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A Salieri is a friend, co-worker, lover or relative that is threatened by you. They often attempt to diminish you although they pretend to be your friend or advisor.
Dean's boss is a Salieri. He keeps micro-managing Dean even though everyone knows that without Dean, he would be totally lost. back stabber[. [traitor. judas. green eyed monster
Salieri by SimpleSpyman May 2, 2017
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Salieri stare 

A salieri stare is a reference to the film Amadeus. In the movie, salieri; a musician obsessively envies his rival, mozart.

And fittingly, it is used to describe a stare that potrays envy.
Man, i got a perfect score on the analysis final. Daniel gave me the salieri stare.
Salieri stare by Monke222 August 28, 2021

to salieri 

transitive verb: "to salieri someone"
1. to force a self-believed genius to deal with their own actual mediocrity by presenting them with a person of true genius (by comparison). A reference to the character Salieri in the play/movie "Amadeus".
to salieri someone: "I actually felt bad for Tim after he got salieri'd by Rob. Tim spent years believing that he was awesome, but now he just keeps picking fights with Rob...which he ends up losing."

salierus 

Our lord and saviour.
Best men ever existed.
Had many friends, good ones.
Oh look!
Here comes Salierus!
I love that guy!
salierus by TheLegend30-3 February 18, 2017
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Back when I lived in upstate new york 

A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
Back when I lived in upstate new york, I also had to park on the street - on two occasions, we got enough snow, mixed with just the right plowing, that my car was lifted off the ground from so much snow being jammed underneath it.
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Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
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the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
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Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
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age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
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