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Role Playing Disorder

An invented syndrome popular on online journaling sites (LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, et al) where the "sufferer" claims to have multiple personalities present in one single body.

Unlike clinical MPD/DID, these personalities are most often take from pop culture: rock stars, anime characters, and movie heroes. Less frequently seen are non-human "personalities" like vampires, dragons, and elves.

Those suffering from RPD will call it "pluralism" or refer to themselves as a "multiple system" - while staunchly insisting they are perfectly sane and rejecting all claims that their condition was invented solely due to desperate need to escape the monotony of their useless lives.
No dude, you have Role Playing Disorder and watched Star Wars a few too many times.

role playing time 

Role playing time is the term used to describe the tardiness of gamers. On role playing time, things will start anywhere from half an hour to three or four hours later than they were scheduled.
1: The game is scheduled to start at 10pm, but will actually start at midnight.

2: "Hey, I told you supper was at 6:30!"
-"So?"
"It's 9!"
-"Oh, I thought you meant role playing time."

Role-playing

1) A hobby in which players create or are given fictional characters to portray. There is usually a rule-system of some form, of which D&D is an example. In a group of players one (or sometimes more) persons will volunteer to be a Games Master - s/he will control all non-player characters, the environment the players interact in and arbitrate the rules.

2) A bedroom practise, in which partners dress up and pretend to be someone else for sexual satisfaction.
"My role-playing character is a barabarian warrior from the tundra!"
"Let's role-play, I want you in that school girl uniform again."
Role-playing by Robyn Saul January 21, 2004

Role Playing 

Participating in Role Play.

When used in non-BDSM terms, it usually refers to playing characters in chatrooms, or maybe Real Life, and pretending to be a made up character.

Often shortened to RP.
Bob is Role Playing with James. Bob's character is called Fred, and James' character is called Mary.
Role Playing by sarah_briarmoss October 24, 2006

playing the role 

Pretending to be something other than what you really are just to appear a certain way in front of others
That girl really wanted to kiss me at the party but didn't because she was playing the role.
playing the role by Flizza March 2, 2014

Role Playing 

Role playing may refer to;
1) The act of dressing up as part of a sexual relationship.
2) Online games, eg World Of Warcraft, as in an MMORPG game, in which a person controls the actions of an on-screen character.
3) Using social networking sites, eg Bebo or MySpace to act out actions of a character either canon (from anime/manga/TV programmes/etc) or non-canon (original characters made up by the roleplayer).

Commonly associated with "geeks" and "nerds".
Commonly shortened to RP
1) Judy dressed up as a naughty school girl last night, it just got be so damn horny!
2) "My level 6 Orc pwned your measly elf!"
"It's only Role Playing dude...." o.O
3) ~The girl crept into the bar, her golden eyes flicking about at the people currently occupying the premises. She blinked, then grinned, straightening and throwing a giant water balloon at some randomers head, roflmfao-ing on the floor.~
Role Playing by InsanePwnerBish February 10, 2009
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Frothability 

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Soul digger

A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
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A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.

A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.

A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."
dead drop by rubberroom July 23, 2008
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No Surprises Wedding

A "No Surprises Wedding," or NSW, is a wedding invitation designation that tells attendees that there can be no unplanned announcements, engagements, events or speeches at the wedding - all actions must be pre-approved by the couple. Anyone who performs an unapproved "surprise" will be asked to leave the wedding early.

This designation comes from Reddit, where so many stories of bad wedding behavior indicated a need to communicate expectations for the wedding behavior of attendees.
You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Brian and Tom on October 31 at noon.

Please note that this wedding is child-free (under 10) and a No Surprises Wedding (NSW). Reach out to wedding planner Sami Smith to request approvals or exceptions; please note that exceptions will be rare. Limited child care for under-10s will be available. All approvals will be noted and included in planning. Unapproved, or surprise exceptions, will result in guests being asked to leave.
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