(verb). The act of traveling a long distance (usually by means of a difficult route) in order to reach a desired destination.
John: Yo are you coming to Pete's house tonight?
Bill: Nah man I don't think I'm trying to magellan all the way over there.
John: Yeah man i feel that, there is mad snow and shit on the ground.
Bill: Nah man I don't think I'm trying to magellan all the way over there.
John: Yeah man i feel that, there is mad snow and shit on the ground.
by Ferdinand Magellan IV January 28, 2013
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Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão Magalhães in portuguese) was a PORTUGUESE (not spanish, as some, ignorants towards the subject, believe) explorer. He led the first geocircumnavigation (do a complete travel around the Earth), perpuating the portuguese pioneirism that began with the foundation of the first colonial and global empire of the Renessaince.
Wow, you dated Beth, the popular and gorgeous girl who nobody had the balls to ask out? Man, you're a real Magellan!
by don0tevensweatitdon't August 9, 2017
Get the magellan mug.Magellan was a Spanish explorer and is the brand of a GPS system. In movies, the term Magellan is used to make humor out of a character that is blatantly lost.
"Hey Magellan, do you know where we're going? I think that you were supposed to make that turn back at forth street."
by jct7 June 28, 2006
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Alternately spelled magellin, as if an abbreviation of "magelling," which is not a word.
Alternately spelled magellin, as if an abbreviation of "magelling," which is not a word.
by Epimetheus January 14, 2008
Get the magellan mug.(adj.) Used after Ferdinand Magellan, and alternatively spelled "Magellin". It means "nice, good, cool, freakin' awesome, etc."
by Zombii Cidel October 26, 2010
Get the Magellan mug.A term used to describe a trash outfielder who can't catch the damn ball. It's when someone gets so lost trying to track a simple pop fly that they disappear for 38 days and get their back blown out by some random tribe on an unknown island similar to what happened to Ferdinand Magellan.
Did you see him drop that easy pop-up? That route was so ass bro he looked like he was lost at sea trying to find the spice islands. What a fucking Magellan.
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