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What happens when we try to explain something to someone, but instead of providing a clear, reasonable answer we must do whatever it takes and we must not blink, Charlie, in making those tough decisions and give our convoluted response, to sound exactly like Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.
EXPALIN: They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
expalin by Hobble Joh. November 2, 2008
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When someone tries to explain something but does it very bad or like a 5 year old. Like Sarah Palin.
Sarah: I can see Russia out my back door!
Vick: Can you expalin youself please?
Expalin by JohnnyWhiplash95 April 22, 2011
To explain something in nonsensical terms while willfully ignoring what has proven to be true.
Sarah Palin expalined why obesity was great and healthcare bad for all Americans.
Expalin by Kejithou March 4, 2011
To explain something the way Sarah Palin would explain it (by not making any sense at all)
Nancy expalined banning abortion by saying "Well, Santa comes down a chimney but that doesn't make it a restaurant"

He went on to expalin global warming not being real by bringing a snowball inside
expalin by velvetsundown May 27, 2016

i can explain 

a statement used when a situation becomes either undeniably irreversible or utterly impossible to explain due to temporary unfavorable circumstances. Often preceded by the "it's not what it looks like" statement. In other words: you're busted and you can't come up with a good excuse without getting beat up or yelled at.
A girl comes to a guy's house for a visit. They enjoy a good conversation. They turn on the tv. The air conditioner doesn't work so they take off a few items of clothing. They have a friendly fight over the remote and start wrestling on the ground. The guy's overzealous girlfriend walks in to see them holding eachother, nearly half naked on the carpet. The guy is shocked and says "Wait, it's not what it looks like...I can explain."
i can explain by JT the man January 11, 2008

I'll Explain Later 

Everytime a plothole is found in the script of the long-running series Dr. Who, the Doctors line reads 'I'll explain later'. Not by a lack of inmagination, but of time conflicts/paradoxes in the Dr. Who universe.

This line is hugely made fun of in the 'Comic relief' parody starring Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Grant.
Doctor: Let's go...
Rose: How come the Daleks are still alive?
Doctor: hazitates I'll explain later...

Fish-Explaining 

Fish-Explaining
(Verb)

1.
Speaking quickly and without articulation and with great enthusiasm.
2.
Speaking to someone in a language they do not understand- with great enthusiasm.
3.
Enthusiastically speaking without truly communicating anything, oftentimes in reference to a political speech.
1.

After Mitt Romney’s televised speech I couldn’t help but feel that the whole thing had been little more than Fish-Explaining. There had been a lot of enthusiastic buzz-words but little had been actually communicated.

2.
My mother-in-law forgot for the moment that I did not speak any Turkish. After she finished excitedly saying whatever it was she was saying I could only ask her what all her fish-explaining had been about.

3.
The baby was incapable of speaking English but that didn’t stop him from enthusiastically telling anyone who would listen about the fish he was pointing at when visiting the New England Aquarium. I smiled at his gibbering antics- this was true fish-explaining.
Fish-Explaining by turtle poison September 15, 2012
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
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Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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