She de-friending him on Facebook was the nuclear option; it was unnecessary and embarassed him in front of his friends.
by outnabout April 22, 2010
The new, hip word for 'last resort' coined by the creative vocabularies in the united states senate.
by Brisk May 29, 2005
The term for the Republican maneuver to severely limit filibusters in the Senate, thereby granting a large amount of power to a simple Majority.
by GPF April 11, 2005
When a group outlandishly robbed something, then whine as if they are being mistreated when others try to interject them from bringing the stolen good home.
The republican party invoked the nuclear option to confirm gorsuch to the supreme court, dude who should have never been there
by chugchugpickle April 06, 2017
The common act when a classmate searches something embarrassing on your school computer so you get revenge by searching, on their computer, "gay down syndrome midget BBC zootopia fart p*rn" on their computer as revenge.
Classmate: WTF why did you search that on my computer?! The school will see it on my browsing history
Other guy: I had to take the nuclear option unfortunately
Other guy: I had to take the nuclear option unfortunately
by TheWasianSensation April 11, 2022