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gerrymander

verb- (to) waste time doing meaningless, unproductive things.
mother: stop trying to gerrymander your way through high school; you'll end up needing to save your sinking Titanic, which i am not going to help you do.

son: Can't i just relax after school, and then go and do homework?
by Sexydimma September 1, 2013
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gerrymander

To clear your throat extremely loud in a quiet room.
I had to gerrymander in my english class while we were reading quietly, and my teacher flipped out.
by Grammy9907 October 23, 2006
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Data Gerrymandering

Intentionally changing what the data actually show to fit a claim furthering an agenda. Anytime someone ignores, suppresses, or alters findings, results, data or statistics to fit their agenda. This could be media skewing a graph to hype fear (ex. of violent crime, drug use), politicians ignoring data needed to accurately assess a policy (ex. Lead in the water), social scientists beefing up a study's results to be published, companies claiming a product is safe (ex. Pharmaceutical clinical trials), and everyday users of Twitter who offer a "poll" to show what 'everyone' thinks.
The graph showing the increase in violent crime nationwide was obvious data gerrymandering because the statistics were only taken from the cities with populations over 1 million.

The Senator was gerrymandering data when he said that giving ex-felons the right to vote would mean all the convicted terrorists will be able to cast a ballot.
by Gerry Mandered Data October 11, 2018
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G-Spot Jerrymandering

A coital action where you cross your wrists and begin to insert every finger into a female sex partner's vagina, then continue to push inward until all but the thumbs are inside. Turning your palms out facing you with wrists still crossed, you do an 8 finger stroking session along the entirety of the vaginal cavity including the G-spot. Continue this until your partner taps out from overstimulation.
"hey girl, you look a little pent up... I bet some G-Spot Jerrymandering will set you straight!"
by Jojolongwood April 24, 2021
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gerrymandate

Where a political party proclaims a mandate after clearly losing an election, because by the use of gerrymandering they managed to retain control of the House of Representatives. When if anything near a reasonable redistricting system would of been in place, they would of easily of lost that control.
In the 2012 Presidential election, Republicans maintained control of the House of Representatives even though they lost states like Ohio and got less of the congressional votes. However, because of abusive gerrymandering in Ohio, they ended up with 12 of the 16 congressional seats available in the state. When afterwards they claimed to have their own "mandate" from the voters, they only really had a gerrymandate, because they actually got less votes in the House of Representatives than the Democrats did and kept control by gaming the system, not because it was the will of the voters.
by Hauntedsoup November 9, 2012
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gerrymandering

Splitting the voting population in favor of the group in power by any means necessary, such as specifically targeted advertising, redrawing district lines, teaching specific politics in schools, or violence.
It was gerrymandering when the Catholic highschool took the children to a Bush rally.
by Slippy P Funk Yo D Fird September 14, 2004
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gerrymandering

Moving the books/notebooks of other students into different desks to influence where they sit during class. Used for political structure.
Lookee me, I am gerrymandering John's stuff onto that other desk. I am usurping his throne!
by Bizzlitz Masta January 28, 2008
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