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A (usually annual) gathering of old, stinky, unwashed, and severely overweight men (with a limited number of women, usually of the same qualities) where antiquated and largely useless radio equipment is bought, sold, and traded, usually at exorbitantly high prices.

While some hamfests are useful for finding odd parts and rare equipment, many have degraded in quality over the years and are not worth going to any more.
I was at this one hamfest in Bowie, MD and this hambone picked up a simplex repeater and said, "Duh, so it records the radio, TTX?"

h4mb0n3-1: Man, did you go to the Vienna hamfest this year, the one at NOVA?

h4mb0n3-2: No way, d00d, that hamfest is not as good as it used to be.
hamfest by Scout 740 Baker April 16, 2004
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An annual ham radio festival that includes a flea market, prizes, and seminars.
I went to the Vienna Wireless hamfest and picked up a nice HF/VHF transciever.
hamfest by IrishRepublicanArmy January 10, 2004
A derivation of "ham-fisted," an adjective meaning "clumsy," "heavy-handed," or "indelicate."

1. To thoroughly dominate, humiliate, or destroy. See example #1.

2. A literal "hamfist." When one wraps his own fist in ham. Fisting a human with a hamfist is optional but the implication is always there.
1. "Wow, the Patriots hamfisted the entire NFL until they lost to the Giants."

"Sit down and pick up a controller. Are you ready to get hamfisted?"

Hamesticle 

Someone with homosexual sympathetic tendencies, who believes his testicles are larger than average. This person likely has undiagnosed developmental delays and can't fathom their testicles have retreated back inside their scrotum. In serious cases the entire scrotum will retreat, leaving the appearance of a vagina where the testicles used to reside.
Mark was feeling down and I asked him what was the matter? He confided to me and said his Dr. recently diagnosed him as the first patient suffering from Hamesticle.
Hamesticle by TheRealSicario December 3, 2019
two giant pieces of ham fucking and creating little bacon bits.
Josh: Hey man, what's up?

Kevin: Not much, just eating some bacon bits.

Josh: Ew, what the fuck man? That's sick!

Kevin: What? How?

Josh: *sigh* Hamcest, broseph. Hamcest.
Hamcest by blackJesus January 24, 2013

hamfisted meme 

A meme so horribly shoved into any situation, often a case of some inbred Tumblrina getting angry at someone and littering their comment section with a unrelated picture, lyrics from a song, a copypasta text meme or something like that in order to litter a comments section with immature spam. It's never a logical argument and just shows the poster is pathetic.
Finalspin could not think of any logical argument against the picture that showed there are only two genders, she then copied the description and in a hamfisted meme, tried to work that one old TV show "Wheel of Fortune" in her version of it as she posted into the comments section, proving she was braindead and was a inbred SJW.
hamfisted meme by The Painful Reality November 11, 2017
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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

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For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
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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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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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
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Larpenomics

When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flex cash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.
Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics
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Palmela Handerson 

Your hand that you masturbate with.
Girlfriend: What are you going to do for the next week while I'm on holiday?

Boyfriend: Have a visit from Palmela Handerson of course!
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