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door-locked-from-the-inside situation 

a situation where having solved the problem is a prerequisite for solving it.

it is a problem where a solution exists, but access to it is blocked by the problem itself
this is an execution-based form of a circular reasoning paradox
Buying a package of scissors which need scissors to be opened is a door-locked-from-the-inside situation.

Door Locker 

When you are locked out of your own room by someone who is making an attempt to get laid. This person usually will not let you in the room no matter the circumstances.
Man, That Mike is such a door locker. I had to sleep out in the hallway, and he didn't even get laid!
Door Locker by MBL December 30, 2007

Double Door Locker 

The same as a door locker, but used when the door has an automatic lock like a hotel door, or cruise ship cabin. The bolt is used in addition to the automatic lock.
Fuckin' Mike is such a Double Door Locker. He locked me out of my own cabin, and I had to sleep in the hallway.
Double Door Locker by MBL January 4, 2008

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026
Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
Word of the Day on May 30, 2026