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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

explander 

Travel to or explore a new and non-touristy destination.
I plan to explander Bhutan after covid19 ends. Anyone been there?
explander by rzatz December 28, 2020

Explanibrag 

Bragging disguised as providing an explanation.
From the NBC show "Community":

Or what you’ll do twice as much work for the doctor for half the pay!? —Jeff Winger

Britta: That's called a COMPLISULT, part compliment, part insult, he invented them, I coined the term. See what I just did there. That’s an EXPLANIBRAG.
Explanibrag by PB44 March 9, 2011

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
An explosive, unexpected, rude, liquid-based yet coagulated, fabric drenching, stitch splitting, mud knuckle sweat bucket of a typically scorching hot, magma-resemblant, oxygen depriving, physically, emotionally and psychologically devastating fart. So much so that to even use the word fart above is just a mistake, because its shartile percentage exceeds such a regulated standard. Has been known to strike in times of extreme heat, stress, post-cumin infused meals, after drinking cheap beer, irish car bombs, pretty much any burrito you dabble with, or anything you ever might find yourself purchasing from a street vendor in New York City...ever. At all. I hope for your sake you are not taking the NJ Transit on the day that your initial Explart strikes, because you'll probably never be the same. Good luck.

Side Note:

Though it is more graphic and pungent than the typical shart, they still derive from the same family of digestional disrupt.
" So I was on my way to Billy's house with Margaret and Katherine, and she was really nervous about seeing him. He answered the door with no shirt, and this bitch just explarted immediately. It was probably the most unbelievable thing I have ever seen.. I mean just poo, e v e r y w h e r e. It's been nearly 2 months and his front stoop still looks like the sprinkler caught it."
Explart by A Qualified Professional September 7, 2011