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Walmart effect 

When retailers remove extras from their products to make them more price-competitive with Wal-Mart.
Polo shirts sold by J.C. Penney without the customary breast pocket demonstrates the Walmart effect.
Walmart effect by Lane D. April 29, 2008
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Wal-Mart effect 

The mass closure of small business in a city or town caused by Wal-Mart setting up shop there
Many small businesses have closed across America because of the Wal-Mart effect.

The Wal-Mart Effect 

The natural phenomenon that occurs when one enters any Wal-Mart Superstore needing nothing, yet somehow ends up leaving with a full cart.

This is probably due to their low costs, extended store hours, and poor employee benefits.

See: Wal-Mart
Victim: Dude, help me unload my cart.

Victim's Friend: I thought you said you didn't need anything?

Victim: ...They did it again! It's The Wal-Mart Effect, Gets me every time.

Victim's Friend: Ah, I see what you did there. Very well played, Wal-Mart.
The Wal-Mart Effect by Justin121121 September 25, 2010

The Wal-Mart Effect 

When you've become a permanent employee of Wal-Mart - where you've paved your destiny by binding yourself to work there for the rest if your life, it is inevitable that you will become a fatty, a super fatty fat fatty, some could even argue morbidly obese fatty. This comes from the depression and misery & rollercoaster of negative emotions that comes with being employed with Wal-Mart. Every employee that works their way up in the store, undoubtedly, experiences The Wal-Mart Effect. Fattys.
Friend 1: Hey buddy, you've gained some weight since I seen you last!
Friend 2: Yeah, I got hit with the Wal-Mart Effect when I became a customer service manager.

Friend 1: Wow, our manager sure is a wide load!
Friend 2: Well yeah, every manager falls victim to The Wal-Mart Effect.

Manager: Go wash the windows.
Employee: Whatever you fat loser, if you don't kill yourself, The Wal-Mart Effect will claim you, fat ass.
The Wal-Mart Effect by OGPAPI69 July 29, 2018
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Coyote Ugly

1. Place

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2. Movie

A story about a Jersey girl following her dreams, aided by working at this bar in New York.

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See other definitions - waking up next to someone so ugly you'd rather chew your arm off than wake them up.
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3. Ugg I woke up to Coyote Ugly this morning!
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Often used jokingly as a over-exaggeration in political talk.

Can also be used in response to a ban or mute in a forum site or online chat.
Steve: I think that the government should regulate businesses more
Bob: Literally 1984!

--User1 has been permantly banned--
User2: You cant ban my friend like that! Literally 1984!
Literally 1984 by ke1 July 7, 2021
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A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
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Me: Woah! TLDU!
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