austerism

For an individual to act hard at all times, even when not necessary. An abundance of being hard.

He has bad austerism.
You need to get past your austerism, your not hard.

by The Realist Ever December 5, 2010

Asterisky

A blog run by a pretty awesome group of college students from around the United States who want to deliver a wide range of content to the internet from a young perspective.

Sam: "Hey did you read Asterisky today? There was a really awesome article about accounts to follow on Twitter."

Doug: "No way, man! The other day I was on Asterisky and there was a super-informative article about gas prices!"

Sam: "Sweet, yeah, I saw that. I'm thinking maybe I should apply to join the staff of Asterisky -- what do you think?"

Doug: "Go for it! I hear they have a "Join" tab on their site!"

Sam: "Cool, I will do that."

by DevotedReader June 2, 2011

Asterism

Any one of a number of heinously outdated colloquialisms; their rhetorical power lies in their deplorable ability to frustrate or incite hilarity. Upon utterance, a speaker will likely generate the following behavioral, cerebral, or emotional responses:
1) Externalized disgust (behavioral)
2) Debilitating brain aneurisms (cerebral)
3) Crushing submission (emotional)
They should be avoided in day-to-day vernacular, and hopefully eventually removed from English nomenclature.

Various Asterisms:
Alas (conjunction)
Up a crick (prepositional phrase)
Circle the wagons (verb)
Po-dunk (adjective)
MMMMMkay (declarative)
Cotton-picking (adjective {racial})
By golly (declarative)
Gosh darn (defamatory)
Rats (declarative)
Hippity-hoppity (crack whore)
Gung-ho (adjective)
The list goes on...

by drizzake & co. April 23, 2008

asterisk action

An action that takes place on a forum or message board to indicate, normally in third person, that the character being controlled by the poster has done an action. These actions are placed in a set of asterisks. If in response to someone's post, that normally means that they are the direct object of that action.

Not to be confused with asterisk expression. Asterisk expressions run along the lines of: *sigh* *cough* or *sneeze* If you were to add an "s" to any of those, it would be an action.

asterisk action
User: Hai guyz, what's going on?
*sits down*
I'm thirsty...
*grabs beer*

Troll: "LOL ur wrong im right"
User: *farts on*

Troll: What's an Atari and how the hell was it the "original" console? Xbox was the original console!
User: *punches face*
*shoots*

Troll: LOL launch missile!
*turns key*
User: *Kirk hand chop*
*kicks balls*

by MegamanTTEX November 22, 2010

austerian

austerian, n.; pl. austerians. Pejorative. A person who advocates austerity, that is, cutting government expenditures, particularly social expenditures, in an effort to cut governmental deficits. (A comic formation based on the word "austerity" blended with the word "Austrian," since austerity policies are associated with the "Austrian School of Economics")

austerian, adj.: of or pertaining to policies advocated by austerians or to austerians themselves.

From AmericaBlog, by Gaius Publius, Feb. 2, 2013:

Noun: "Paul Krugman’s recent column looks at the romance between the “austerians” — the promoters of austerity for economically troubled nations — and the need to inflict pain to get economic gain."

Adjective: "Then he Krugman pivots to austerian attempts to find an example of occasions when austerity policies have been successful

by metrodorus February 11, 2013

Assterisk

The doggy style view of a girl's butt hole. Looks similar to an asterisk (*) or a starfish.

Scooter contemplated shooting a load in the clearly visible, puckering assterisk.

by thaicougs February 13, 2010

asterisk

Symbol used online for 3 things usually.

1. Bolding or emphasizing a word where font types are unavailable.
2. A way of setting off a word that gives what you're writing a "tone" without actually leading the reader to believe that you're saying the word.
3. Making a correction to a previous mistake.

In order of the definitions of asterisk:

1. I *really* want to come over and rotate your tires.
2. *grin* If you gt what I mean.
3. *get (or get*)

by XadaTen December 28, 2013