A terribly vain person who uses selfish and cruel emotional abuse to bend and manipulate lovers and friends. A Lanthis will then use these people and discard them when he's sucked them dry.
Pam to love-struck friend:
"Jane, you need to stay away from that guy. He may be hot but he's also a total Lanthis"
Jane:
"A Lanthis!? Thank goodness you told me, I'll stay well clear of him then"
The fear of being convicted of a crime you didn't commit, especially a major one resulting in jail time or perhaps even the death penalty. From Greek lanthasmenos meaning wrong or mistaken, and katadiki meaning conviction.
After all the serious false accusations made by his ex-wife, Bob started to suffer from lanthasmenokatadikophobia.
the concept of making a donation to a non-profit organization (or towards something to improve the world) as your gift to a loved one
At Christmas, instead of buying a sweater for a loved one, buying a chicken on a non-profit website that goes to someone in the developing world as your gift to a loved one here, and the loved one here gets a certificate that says who got the chicken.
The practice of gift-lanthropy is increasing in North America.
Many non-profit organizations are implementing the model of gift-lanthropy to increase donations.
a person who is freakishly tall, or a tall person with freakish properties, can be used as an insult by a shorter person to a taller person to imply that being taller than them is weird, can also be an endearing term used by a shorter person so imply to a tall friend: although you are tall i still love you.
"wow, look how tall she is"... "yeah, what a lanktoid"
OR
"you're such a lanktoid" (either as insult or a jockular endearing affectionate nickname)