intransitive verb
1. To expose to radiation.
2. To treat with radiation.
3. To shed light on; illuminate.
4. To manifest in a manner suggesting the emission of light; radiate.
5. To send forth rays; radiate.To become radiant.
The girls who worked at radium painted watch plants in the 1920s were irradiated real bad.
Blends the words irradiate (to bombard with nuclear radiation) and age. The act of an older staff member skillfully using cutting-edge slang in a formal business setting, such as an office staff meeting, which belies his age and makes his younger rivals appear older and less hip than he. (Radiation therapy in medicine uses beta and gamma rays to destroy young, fast-growing cancer cells in order to preserve the older, healthy tissue.)
My presentation to the big guy was so cool even that snot-nose Jason kept his head down in his Crackberry lookin' shit up. Man, I irradiaged those pups.
Texas is categorized as a swing state in presidential elections, but has voted for Republicans more times than for Democrats in recent history. As such, as demographics change political alignments, some Democrats believe that Texaswill vote blue, or Democratic, due to their Hispanic and African American voters, who often align themselves with the Democratic Party's liberal wing.
Blexas has been cited as possible in the upcoming decades, but only if Democrats continue to win the Hispanic vote in bigger margins.
Democrat 1: What is your prediction for the 2024 presidential election?
Democrat 2: Well uh, Blexas!
Democrat 1: You've been saying that since 2008 though.
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.