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To fracture and waste something important, like a country, with something totally unimportant, like ethnic differences.
Man, you just balkanized your head on a stump!
by psients October 23, 2006
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1. The default beliefs installed when you were a child.

2. An unexamined position you absorbed from your environment growing up.
I grew up in a conservative home so my factory settings lead me to vote Republican.
I grew up in a liberal home so my factory settings lead me to vote Democrat.
by riemannslost0 February 04, 2020
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2
To split something (usually a state) apart, on a usually ethnic basis. This verb first appeared in the 1990's during the War in Bosnia, led by Croats, Serbs and Bosnians, which caused the demise of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). It is nowadays again popular with Kosovar Albanians trying to rip off a part of Serbia -Kosovo (15% of Serbian territory, imagine the US without Texas)- for themselves.
It seems highly unlikely to balkanize the USA.
by Ntex March 30, 2008
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3
To split apart, or secede from, a union of states.
"You will not be free if you Balkanize the United States."
by Downstrike May 27, 2004
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4
The action of adding meat to every possible dish.
Nevena balkanized her salad adding cvarci (fried porc fat) and prosciutto (dried meat).

Ana became sad when Francois refused his ratatouille to be balkanized with cevapi.
by eordeos June 25, 2017
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