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team building 

When a company waste their employees time when a person or group of people can't get along with others.
Justine fights with everyone, so we have to go to a team building exercise.
team building by Peteybuf October 27, 2006

team building 

Typically just a corporate term for a piss up.

The act of spending company dollars on booze in an attempt to make a work team get on better.

Likely to backfire and actually break down a team due to the free nature of the booze and it's much-loved disinhibition, coupled with an abhorrence of your colleagues. Watch out for a drunkfession, drunkfrontation and an assortment of drunkidity.

Crafty managers have been known to use this as a ploy to remove a disliked employee.
So you understand that your behaviour at the team building exercise was in breach of your employment contract and our code of donduct, so we have no choice to terminate your employment.

(Cheers in next office quickly muffled by bacon & egg rolls)
team building by Greeenie June 16, 2011

team building 

the process of breaking the ice enough to ascend to the status of team
we're so good at team building!
Ill shove you back in that freezer if you keep trying to make that ice melt
team building by yaryeetyert July 20, 2022

Team Building Exercise

The act of gang rape
My brothers and I performed a team building exercise on her as she spoke out of turn.
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
Word of the Day on October 25, 2026

Surf Dracula Syndrome 

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Word of the Day on October 24, 2026

Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
Word of the Day on October 23, 2026
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