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Utica Face 

A native of Utica, NY who exhibits an expresionless look of despair and emptiness, arising from having spent an entire lifetime in Utica. It is the expression of having lost all hope and the realization that they will never be able to get out of that awful city.
Are you bored and depressed, or is that just your Utica Face?
Utica Face by Euorgos August 20, 2013
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Utica Degree 

Basically a synonym for nepotism, this word derives from Utica, NY (a city of approx. 60,000 in Central NY) where high-paying jobs are widely asserted to be obtained through family and acquaintance connections rather than through education and proven experience. These illegally acquired jobs often come with various perks and kickbacks that are as questionable as the means used to obtain the job.
Who is the new superintendent of schools?
I don't know, some nobody with a Utica degree. I heard he got the job because he was the brother of the board president.

Where did the VP of the bank go to college?
Nowhere. He's got a Utica degree so he didn't need to go to college.

Why is that arson detective able to afford a Hummer and a $600,000 house in New Hartford?
I don't know, he probably has a Utica degree.

Utica Degree by Jamallerian October 13, 2007
Noun:

The most beautiful island off the coast of Honduras. The Cinderella of the Caribbean. Residents are called Utilians and such the native tongue is Utilian. It's a mixture of English and sing-song dialect of the Caribbean. Undisputed Paradise on Earth.
I am so ready to go back to Utila!
-Dude, you just got back. You have to go back to work.
Who needs work when you got Utila, and some of the best baleadas in the world!
Utila by Logito February 1, 2014
Ultivate is a hybrid word derived from the words cultivate, elevate and ultimate. Its a noun that can be used as a verb. The word was created to describe a bilingual psychosocial project founded and directed by Chilean born Australian Psychologist, Andy Solange. An Ultivate participant will access psychosocial intelligence and apply this knowledge to modify personal human behaviour as a means to solve psychological conflict and improve personal, social and vocational performance. Ultivate is used as a verb because it must be practiced daily in order to see the psychosocial change. Ultivate seeks to use current and relevant psychosocial research to improve human cognition and behaviour in order to prepare the human brain for the modern world. Ultivate is pro psychosocial development and fundamentally seeks to eliminate mental illness brought on psychosocial barriers through psychosocial education. To ultivate means to actively engage in taking personal responsibility for solving personal, social and vocational issues. Personal problems are challenge through psychosocial learning and practicing a new way in order to see a new result.
Ultivate your thinking with....; Ultivate your behaviour by.....; We need to ultivate our life by...; I need some ultivation today; Can you ultivate with me?; Why don't you ultivate it?
Ultivate by Ultivatum January 16, 2021
The saddest city in America. Imagine being forced to eat a turd sandwich and when you're done eating it someone kicks you in the krotch and has sex with your mom. It's like 10 times sadder than that.
"Hey, let's go to Utica."

"Hey, I'd rather kill myself."
Utica by MrSpongebobBrownPants September 15, 2019
The city that God forgot
This city sucks, it reminds me of Utica
utica by bort April 15, 2005
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Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
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