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declutter 

To eliminate extraneous things or information, as in "It's time to declutter your life." This can apply to cleaning up a room or location, but can also apply to cleaning up computer files or removing unnecessary information from your brain or even a specific discussion. It is often used in a loose way to refer to eliminating unnecessary stressors from your life/situation, like someone talking about decluttering their life by breaking up with a significant other. It can also be spelled with a hyphen: de-clutter (decluttered, decluttering).
We need to declutter our basement before we buy anything else.
We are decluttering our basement.
I really need to break up with Joey and declutter my life.
It's time to declutter your hard drive.
declutter by wordcritic2 May 15, 2015
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deglitter 

to get rid of mess, disorder or sensitive information from your computers hard drive or internet history.
I need to deglitter my hard drive.

My internet history could do with being deglittered.
deglitter by vanDouche October 9, 2012

College Decruiter 

An employee of a university who tries to talk someone out of enrolling at the university.
Decruiter: Looking at your high school GPA, you might want to consider going to trade school.

Prospective College Student: Man, I've just been dissed by a College Decruiter!

Decleater 

To knock someone off their cleats on to their ass in a sporting event. Such as Football.
Steven the Linebacker ended the game with a record high 15 decleaters in one game.
Decleater by BDP Big Daddy Patrick December 22, 2008

declusterfication 

Def: to undo someone elses' clusterfuck, or mess.
"I walked into work today and spent the first 4 hours in declusterfication mode: Bob had really made a clusterfuck out of things!"

"Joe had really made a clusterfuck of that situation with Mary. I felt obliged to slip into declusterfication mode, and try to fix things between them."

"I'm on my way into the ER to declusterfy since Dr. Steve has things in a clusterfuck!"
declusterfication by Kwirkdon79 October 10, 2014

Emotional decluttering 

The process of ritual cleansing that we go through to clear our minds and start anew after a big life event.
Jack: hey, do you want to go out this weekend?
Sally: I cant, I'm staying home. I have a lot of emotional decluttering to do.

declusterfuctify

To loose or untangle a mass of stuff.
Velma: Vince, come here. The christmas lights are all tangled.

Vince: Let me declusterfuctify those for ya, Velma.
declusterfuctify by Ric Z. June 13, 2008
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Back when I lived in upstate new york 

A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
Back when I lived in upstate new york, I also had to park on the street - on two occasions, we got enough snow, mixed with just the right plowing, that my car was lifted off the ground from so much snow being jammed underneath it.
Word of the Day on August 31, 2026
Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026

Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026

age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 27, 2026

board chow 

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007
Word of the Day on August 26, 2026
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