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Gratuitous 

Gratuitous means to be given something, or to receive something, without payment or obligation.

It can also mean an action carried out or executed without cause, or an unjustified action.

It is also used in Law, where something is made or given, without receiving any value in return, as in a 'gratuitous agreement'.
He said that he would make the table completely free of charge, and we shook hands on the deal. We made a gratuitous agreement.

There is never any call for such gratuitous violence.
Gratuitous by GWB235 January 19, 2015
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Gratuitous Sexy Time 

The act of having extremely loud sex so often to the point where your roommate/neighbors ask you to keep it down/lock it up on a regular basis.
Guy-"So did you get any sleep last night?"

Other guy-" No, my roommate was having Gratuitous Sexy Time with his girlfriend. It was so loud that the police came and told them to keep it down."

Guy-"Damn, that sucks."

Gratuitous Jesus Dropper

One who subtly inserts religious themes in a business metting in an effort to gain unearned trust or respect. Often you will see this behavior in those who end their message with "Have a blessed day."
Enough with Terence being a Gratuitous Jesus Dropper. He proudly proclaimed he would "get to the bottom of the unethical and inappropriate actions of his team" before stating he "had to leave the meeting early to teach his child's CCD class". We know he has no intention of unearthing the violations of his team members, but subconsciously suggested he will do the right thing as a "Man of God."

gratuitous violence 

Gratuitous violence is violence for the sake of being violent. Usually assocciated with low budget movies and cult videogames. Given without need, often unrealistic.
Grand Theft Auto had a Gratuitous violence bonus.

gratuitous sex scene 

In a movie or videogame, a gratuitous sex scene is one there simply for the sake of being there, in a vain attempt to make the rest of the movie or game look cooler.
The "gratuitous sex scene" in wayne's world never actually contained any sex. It just said gratuitous sex scene at the bottom and Mike Myers giving a thumbs up (her vagina)

gratuitous sequelitis 

A disease capable only of infecting Hollywood movie producers. Symptoms include uncontrollable greed and a complete lack of creativity. Once the illness has taken hold, the producer will eventually unload a steaming pile of crap which he will then box up and label with the name of a successful movie plus the number "2" after it. The load of crap will be then be sold to the idiot audience, who gladly forks over money to take a peek at what's in the box, based solely on the name on the label.

In extreme cases, gratuitous sequelitis has been known to create many such boxes of turds, with sequential sequel numbers reaching into the double digits.
Did you see Highlander 2? That was the most amazingly horrible movie ever made. What a case of gratuitous sequelitis!

gratuitous profanity 

Profanity for the sake of profanity, in a forced attempt to make a movie, videogame or song sound cooler. It is uneeded.
Eminem does not execute gratuitous profanity, but it does seem as though he was trying too hard to sound cool on his first two albums. Now he's established a reputation, he's making really shitty music without as much swearing, so he can show that without all the badmouthing, he really does sux0r my bizalls.
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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
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Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.

A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.

A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
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No Surprises Wedding

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This designation comes from Reddit, where so many stories of bad wedding behavior indicated a need to communicate expectations for the wedding behavior of attendees.
You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Brian and Tom on October 31 at noon.

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Person B: "Wow, EBK."
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