An authority that consolidates and monopolizes coercive power.
The state confiscated my money that they believed was part of drug dealing activities, and instructed me to appear in one of their courts in order to prove my case that my money was innocent and not a part of drug dealing activities.
by MorRight August 29, 2022
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In the states you can get beer at a 7-11 but you have to be something like 24.

Why's that guy talking so slow? Oh, he's from the states.
by marko1982 October 17, 2005
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It means the gubment.

The state = most modern people's god
The world is gay...............
by Logic March 13, 2005
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Adj. - of or pertaining to a State college or university; by extension, anything athletic, misogynist, homoerotic, violent, or unneccesarily drunken.
"Dude, stop acting so state."
"So then these state dudes came in and stole our keg."
by yt March 14, 2003
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a really rockin band based out of Cambridge, Mass.
Dude, I just saw the States at the Middle East-- "Puzzle" still rocks!
by bama February 26, 2004
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Noun - A state is someone who is regarded in a negative way for one reason or another. These reasons consist of:
- being ugly
- having a bad dress sense

- being socially unpopular or a social reject (in a community common of the 'state' and the person referring to them as a state)
- having a feature which causes them to be identified as a state, ie bad hair or a bad physique)..
- having a 'bad personality' ie they may be referred to as a state because they are spiteful or ignorant towards others, or particularly to the person referring to them as a state.

All of the above are examples of reasons which are opinions of the person referring to others as states.

A common phrase used to describe someone or something extremely 'statish', usually a situation, is 'United State of...' (see example #4).
1 - Jenny's such a state/Jenny's so statish - she's very ugly, dresses like shit and she's really nasty to me sometimes.

2 - Those kids are such states - Look at what they're wearing!

3 - Can you believe the statishness of them? Their hairstyles are all so statish.

4 - United State of Arsenal losing to Chelsea!
by hazzhaymz January 11, 2010
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The west and central streets of The Block (Vallejo, CA)

Consisting of: Tennessee, Maine, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Michigan, Georgia, Ohio, Carolina, Virginia etc.

Mostly older victorian house with several hoods strewn along the west. High concentration of African American and Latino.
Where you was at?
The States..
Fa sho
by M. Du May 6, 2005
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