If you'd calculate for example 3 x 3 it would be 8 instead of 9 because of the fact that you subtract one from the original answer.
Smegma är efterbliven aka Subtraction Rule
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- Commonly used at social events to take action in escaping the aoe of a certain individual (more than often a snoody, stuck up cunt).

Explained: To subtract the "o" from snood would make the word snod (an adjective for smooth, sleek). So by leaving the "O", one's current position is relieved of the snood, and life goes on.
Guy 1: "I can't stand this, my bitchometer just went off.. I'm gonna have to subtract the "O"

Guy 2: "Feelings mutual brother, it's a shame she's practically shielding the jungle juice from the whole damn party..."

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B Man(snoods boyfriend) - "Whats up fellas, this is my girlfriend --"

Friend 1 - "Time to subtract" (leaves)
Friend 2 - "Minusing..." (leaves)
Friend 3 - "Don't like the looks of this equation, later bro!"
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What happens when a new movie is being planned --- lots of "hopefuls" go in to try out for various part, but most of them get "taken away" (i.e., rejected) from the pool of possible prospects.
I like watching the "making of" bonus-material in DVDs of famous films... lots of interesting and informative material there. So often, the producers speak about how difficult the process of audition and subtraction was: "There was a lot of really awesome talent that we had to choose from , so it always really hurt us to apologetically tell some of the application that --- while they were indeed very good at what they did --- they just weren't quite what we were looking for in this particular movie.
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Term for a person on a team or work environment who is so useless, the team would function better without them.
Did Jon get added to your team? That dude's a net subtract!
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Subtraction is an arithmetic operation that represents the operation of removing objects from a collection. Subtraction is signified by the minus sign, −. For example, in the adjacent picture, there are 5 − 2 peaches—meaning 5 peaches with 2 taken away, resulting in a total of 3 peaches.
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When subtracting additional items makes it better than it was, much like addition by subtraction.
He's subtractional so he can leave and no one cares.
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Slang for killing someone; often used in rap songs or by people who consider themselves "about that action"
Tay-K: Your boys deep? Well, let's get to subtracting.
by yk.echo February 19, 2022
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