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fly-tipping 

British term for the illegal dumping of waste material.
'since organising her neighbours to lobby the city council to spend £1m to clean up their area, renovate houses, plant trees and stop fly-tipping...' (Tim Bouquet interviewing Sameen Ali in the Times magazine, 08.03.08)
fly-tipping by kenneth purtell March 8, 2008
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fly-tipping 

An environmental crime whereby the perpetrator engages in unautorized dumping of waste.
Fly-tipping is now under crack-down in England.
fly-tipping by JustJen March 15, 2005

fly-tipping 

An environmental crime whereby the perpetrator engages in the unautorized dumping of waste.
Fly-tipping is now under crack-down in Great Britan.
fly-tipping by JustJen May 13, 2005

fly tipping 

A British phrase describing the act of dumping waste or trash illegally
The contractor was fined for fly tipping the leftover building supplies in a field down the road
fly tipping by tim2000 September 30, 2007

fly tipping 

the act of creeping into a field at night when all the flies are sleeping whilst standing up, and pushing them over
"we went fly tipping last night, it was fucking safe as fuck!"
fly tipping by Cpt Ash McCool April 1, 2009

fly tipping 

A way of dumping work assigned to you on someone else.
I had lots to do but after a spot of fly tipping i've not got that much to do.

I was going home but my boss has come over and fly tipped me.

Right im off home, i've just fly tipped what was left on to the graduate we recruited.
fly tipping by matthew ward August 11, 2006

Office fly-tipping

Discreetly depositing one's workplace detritus at different bins around the office. Reasons for doing so include smell of lunch remnants, lack of one's own bin, producing too much paper based waste, to annoy work colleagues, for spite.
Simon: What were you doing in payroll?
Will: I was office fly-tipping.
Simon: Teriyaki don?
Will: Yessir.
Office fly-tipping by SatMisc November 21, 2013
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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."
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age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
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Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
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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
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young pup 

a young person, a young adult in their late teens/early 20s.
Ah, you're just a young pup at 23!
young pup by the dog May 30, 2006
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