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improvise adapt overcome

To be creative with seemingly tragic events.
Jonathan "I didn't have any toilet paper so I had to use cardboard."
Daryl "Improvise adapt overcome!"

stoner improvisation 

When a stoner in your band improvises your music subconsciously, according to what the weed is telling his brain to do.
Hey DJ fatfingaz please cut the stoner improvisations out when you master the recording.

improvisation 

To make something up on the spot.

Improvisation is common in jazz music, when a musician makes up a solo spontaneously, as opposed to playing a written solo.

Sometimes a group of musicians will completely improvise an entire song. This is done almost exclusively by jazz musicians.

All forms of art can be improvised. Art that is improvised may be called "free" or "freestyle", like "free poetry".

A popular form of improvisation is rapping, or flowing.
Miles Davis was a master of improvisation.

Improvising 

Not planning on what you're going to say but saying stuff that comes to your head from past experiences.
I never know how I'm going to explain how something that happened to me but when I start speaking the improvising starts to kick in.

improvised trolling device 

Alex put an improvised trolling device in James's mailbox after he threw the comp match.

Improvised biological warfare 

When you cough or sneeze on someone to spread a disease or virus
Hey Ben I just used improvised biological warfare on the antivax kid and gave him covid-19
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kinktober 

An excuse for people to write porn with different types of kinks throughout the month of October.

Smut Fanfiction
That chick doesn't write often but when she does, its for Kinktober.
kinktober by Kinkiest July 12, 2018
Word of the Day on October 30, 2026

proper lad 

a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
person1:did you see bob
person2: ya he was a proper lad
Word of the Day on October 29, 2026
The number of years you are still sexually active
While our lifespan is the number of years we will live, our healthspan is the number of healthy years we will have and our sexspan is is the number of years we will continue to be healthy enough to continue having an active sex life.
sexspan by Dr Kat April 21, 2022
Word of the Day on October 28, 2026
A lighthearted reaction upon receiving disappointing news of some sort. Usually something that isn't a particularly a big deal, esp. when it primarily affects someone else - sort of a mild schadenfreude. Sometimes doubled or tripled, and possibly said in a sing-songy voice for added comedic effect to imitate a muted trumpet, which is how the meme originated.
You didn't get any napkins with your takeout pork fried rice? Womp womp.
womp by 175623226 November 3, 2011
Word of the Day on October 27, 2026
When your wife’s boyfriend let you sleep past 8pm 😎😎
Wife’s boyfriend: You have 5 more minutes
Me: Poggers!
Poggers by Just_Charles April 14, 2020
Word of the Day on October 26, 2026

Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
Word of the Day on October 25, 2026
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