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anachronym

Hey, let's go see NKOTB tonight!

Dude, that was so 1989. NKOTB is a total anachronym.
by profestivus March 23, 2013
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anachronym

A combination of the words 'acronym' and 'anachronism'. There is no real definition because a combination of the two words makes absolutely no sense. Something Nicolette says when shes had too many Smifnoff Blueberry vokda cocktails.
Evan, what is the term for a word like WTF? An anachronym?
by cole_w_stl December 9, 2010
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anachronistic

adj. - Belonging to another time, usually historical; possibly futuristic and/or fictional.
Betimes mine verbiage wast anachronistic. Hath thou spake so?
by Downstrike May 23, 2004
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anachronism

(uh-nak-ruh-niz-uhm)

From Middle Greek anachronismo, the word Anachronism refers to an event, person, object or custom that is chronologically out of place. It can also be an error in chronology, in which a person, object, event, etc., is assigned a date or period other than the correct one.
Popularized by the Dresden Dolls’ song Girl Anachronism, you probably didn’t know the existence of the word until you heard that song, bitch.
by jester. August 26, 2006
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anachronaut

A person who enjoys speaking and/or behaving in anachronistic fashion.

1) One who speaks in the ye olde style.
2) Someone who wears old fashioned clothes eg: fop wear, corsets, hoopskirts. Can also mean someone wearing more recent though out of style clothing (from the 70s 80s 90s etc).
3) Anyone using out of date computer technology.
anachronaut: Wo befalls me, mine remote control is mislain! Whither has it gone? Wife, what news of the remote controller?! We must make haste as in but three and twenty minutes I must watch my programmes in the telechamber! O joy of joys, at last it appears! It lay betwixt the cushions of the couching seat! No longer must I endure the horror of two and one half men's situational comedies!
by Kittridge February 29, 2008
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anachronism

An object or event that is seemingly out of place in time.
The watch on Charleton Heston's wrist in "The Ten Commandments" seemed an anachronism when it was mistakenly visible in the actual movie.
by MX December 16, 2003
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