A tendency of poor attempts at satire to backfire, inadvertently creating characters or symbols which people, often including the targets of the satirical work, find genuinely relatable or admirable.
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v. Verhoeven·ed, Verhoeven·ing, Verhoevens
To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately. To be unsuccessful. To disappoint or prove undependable to.
Synonymous with the term 'fail' as used within Internet vernacular.
To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately. To be unsuccessful. To disappoint or prove undependable to.
Synonymous with the term 'fail' as used within Internet vernacular.
"They Verhoevened to fulfill their promises."
"They Verhoevened in their attempt to reach the summit."
"When referring to the Doctor's TARDIS - to not capitalize individual initials of which the acronym is composed is to 'Verhoeven'.
"They Verhoevened in their attempt to reach the summit."
"When referring to the Doctor's TARDIS - to not capitalize individual initials of which the acronym is composed is to 'Verhoeven'.
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Get the Verhoef mug.The Best soccer player in the world along with his great looks. People relate him as the god of beauty
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Get the arthur verhoeven mug.This word is the combination of mistakenly understood German syntax and a term in the computer industry used to describe something that is really messed up or broken (hosed). In German, 'ver' can be added to some words to describe an extreme of a state. For example, trinken ( to drink) and vertrunken ( to drown ). Hence, 'ver' was mistakenly added to hosed and created verhosen to describe something that is broken or messed up to an extreme. However, the word hosen in German means pants, so if verhosen were to have a direct translation it would be something like 'bad pants' even though it was meant to mean something completely different.
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