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abarkheid 

Dog owners and their companion animals have become subject to growing restriction on their movements in public spaces such as parks. This term refers to the legal banishment of dogs from areas where they previously roamed free by morphing the word "bark" and the policy of apartheid under the previous South African regime. This policy restricted black citizens to living in areas such as the one depicted in the film District 9.
Prior to the policy of abarkheid, my dog Nikita and I could go anywhere we wanted to at Fort Funston.
abarkheid by lingtuist1 December 22, 2009
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The gap between a group of people created by a rogue fart
That fart smelt so bad it caused an afartheid
Afartheid by diagonal December 5, 2011

food apartheid 

When spoiled yuppies in south LA have to drive more than 10 minutes to get their overpriced "organic" lifestyle-defining food
You mean they aren't opening a new whole foods up the street afterall? This sh*t is food apartheid
food apartheid by nubie plz August 10, 2008

apartheid 

1)An official policy (now ended) of racial segregation and white supremacy enforced by the South African government. It was used to limit the governing power and place of residence of non-white people.
2)apartness, or being set apart
I couldn't get in to the club because of the bouncers apartheid
apartheid by Kal February 10, 2004

food apartheid 

-noun

1. A state of being created when spoon-fed yuppies have to embark on a trip longer than 10 minutes to get overpriced "healthier" food and are powerless to to resist the temptation to shop at nearby fast food

2. A state of being created when executives in an evil corporation wish to force their unhealthy diets they shill upon unsuspecting citizens
When they gonna open up a place with sum organic food n sh*t? I'm sick of eatin chickren at KFC. This is food apartheid!
food apartheid by Jeriquan August 17, 2008

apartheid 

Can you name two countries that use or have used apartheid?
South Africa and Israel
apartheid by hugewetvaajayna October 5, 2023

Vaccine Apartheid 

When a government pretends not to make vaccination compulsory for everyone, yet has enacted rules that makes the unvaccinated unable to live a normal life—it is pure hypocrisy for making inoculation voluntary while making the unjabbed suffer for their “selfish” decision for not protecting themselves and others.
Guesstimate how many developed countries practise vaccine apartheid in one form or another, while claiming to respect the personal rights of their citizens to get jabbed or not.
Vaccine Apartheid by MathPlus November 28, 2021
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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.
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Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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