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Verb, portmanteau - To pretend to text someone or reply to someone's text message to avoid awkward situations. This happens most often when talking to someone you don't really know or when you don't want to look weird while waiting for the bus.
My crush, Addie, and I have run out of things to talk about so I will pretext to avoid any awkward silences.
pretext by savantwaler May 9, 2010
Word of the Day on May 17, 2010
Words you can keep
1. When you send a text message and know what the reciever will reply. Therefore, you already write out (pretext) - and possibly save in drafts- what you will respond in return.

2. Could also be used in instant messaging by pre-typing a response.
X: "What are you doing tonight?" (asking even though they know)
X uses pretext and writes and saves to drafts- "Oh i see- me too."
Y: "Going to a movie."
X: sends the saved draft of "Oh i see- me too."
pretext by sienna,rhea January 17, 2008
an excuse when you are having an intercourse with someone else (other than ur gf)
Hey Darling what have you been doing saturday night? oh I was having a pretext for having sex
Or
Hey Noah can I see your sticks? (<-- this is the pretext)
I love when you twist them...
pretext by Gabrielasitta March 23, 2008
It's the peripheral elements that are the problem. Stds are that big of a deal. You can love with an std. But if someone DOESN'T TELL YOU THAT THEY HAVE AN STD KNOW FULL-WELL THAT THEY HAVE ONE...
Hym "And then they use that as a pretext to steal your intellectual property upto and including the creation of AI and then I get diagnosed with a disorder I don't actually have or doctors won't diagnose me over a conspiracy against me I do not have to just allow that to happen just so society can function the way some faggot imposter can keep pretending to be me. And that's what this is like. Not telling me you have an std and then poisoning me. It's trans trickery. It's the ole' tricky Nixon. All gain the social benefits of being antagonistic towards the anti-social."
Pretext by Hym Iam June 17, 2025

under no pretext

Partial quote by Karl Marx from a speech given in 1850, the full quote being:

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."
Hey have you heard that "under no pretext" quote by Reagan? Crazy shit.

Naww man you got it all wrong, that quote is from Karl Marx.
under no pretext by Sir Vyvin December 7, 2021

pretentious prick 

Someone who boasts about their accomplishments when in fact they have nothing to boast about or when a man is hitting on a woman and lies about how big his penis is or how good he is in bed.
Oh, so he calls himself god?! Pretentious prick!
pretentious prick by Zecker117 November 17, 2015

pretentious cunt 

Someone who thinks and acts like they're better than most people and have usually forgotten their roots and where they came from.
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Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026

age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 27, 2026

board chow 

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007
Word of the Day on August 26, 2026
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