The act of pretending to read somethinglike a contract on Google terms and conditions or more commonly in classrooms when children are distracted and just pretend to read.
The teacher looks towards Timmy and yells, ''Timmy, are you preading again. Concentrate lad''
The act of walking around a night club or other social setting and scanning the room for the opposite sex to approach and begin seducing. This behavior is very obvious to others and the body language of the subject looks like that of a wildpredator looking around for a viable prey.
That horny old man who is staring at those pre-teens ain't fooling anyone - he's preding.
Name of the mental mechanism that allows people to make exceptions to an otherwise self-accepted statement without being hounded by guilt.
Special Pleading in action:
Jack and Kyle are in line at a pizzeria. Jack notices that Kyle ordered 4 slices of pizza and a liter of Coke. Jack thinks that Kyle is a fatass for doing so.
The next day, Jack orders 4 slices of pizza and a liter of Sprite and downs it all for lunch. But, as he's putting the pizza to bed, all he thinks about is how especially hungry he is after skipping breakfast that morning.
12 step recovery jargon referring to someone new who talks about how great life is, now that they'resober. Usually meaning that the person is out of touch with reality.
The new guy seems pretty happy for a dude who has no job, no money and no family. He must be on a pink cloud.