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dilatant 

noun.
Used by Iggy Pop in an old CBC interview with Peter Gzowski to mean "a stiff" or "one who is uptight." Used in the below quoted lyrics to mean nothing in particular.
"can you remember a time when this city was
a great place for architects and dilatants"
-Death From above 1979's "Black History Month"

Why do you have to be such a dilatant? Studying is for twats.
dilatant by Max(well) January 17, 2006
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dilatant 

An otherwise boring word used artistically by Iggy Pop to reference people who make a bigger deal out of something than it really is, in order to demonize it.
"Punk rock is a word used by dilatants and heartless manipulators..."
dilatant by Twigonometry April 7, 2008
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dilatant 

The guy on TV is a pussy dilatant
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anal dilatation test

An physiological test to detect recent forced opening of the anus. Used chiefly on by police to tell if a suspect has placed contraband in their anus, or if a child has been sexually abused. The buttocks are spread lightly apart by to see if the anal sphincter opens after or with the spreading of the buttocks. If so, anal breaching has likely occurred.
As part of his recording contract, Justin Bieber has to pass an anal dilatation test. This time when he bent over in front of the doctors and lawyers, a doctor disappeared! Bieber got a D+, for that one.
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dilatata's grass feels so nice
dilatata by rhadiathion October 5, 2021

dicatant 

The Drovers wife is observed to possess both qualities in the absence of her husband, with her motherly tenderness and her courageousness, dicatant throughout the drivers wife
dicatant by Dicatantisaword March 28, 2023
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