(SHOH-guh-nate) The government of medieval Japan in which the Shogun, a military and civil regent, served as the actual leader, while the emperor was the symbolic head of the state and religion. There were three shogunates throughout Japanese history - 1) the Kamakura Shogunate (1192–1333), 2) the Ashikaga Shogunate (1336–1573), and 3) the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603–1868).
The action of salminating. Is usually a part of the salmination process. Men and women both salminate, sometimestogether, other times alone. Anything walking/living can and will be salminated. Some salminate more than others, none go unsalminated their entire life.
"Yo what you boys up to?"
"Bro were just bustin a mission, tryna salminate anything walking"
"Word"
A particurally fierce male swimmer who looses it when athletes of other sports, usually football or basketball, call swimming a gay pussy sport. Using superior strength and swimmer skills, swiminaters usually procede to beat the shit out of the ball-throwing panzee "athletes".
"Whoa! Did you see that swiminater beat the shit out of the entire football team?"