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Raster is the order of painting lines / pixels on a crt screen
I'm using a 512 line raster!
raster by gapiro May 14, 2005
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rasterbate 

creating a picture larger than a piece of paper by printing out the picture in sections sized to a page, then connecting those pages in the proper order.
He couldn't buy the poster, so he rasterbated it.
rasterbate by phanna August 1, 2005

rasterbation 

The act of printing a large image on several pieces of paper to tape together into a poster.
The image was too large for his printer, so he had to resort to rasterbation.
rasterbation by MisterPD May 27, 2006

rasterbating 

Resizing an image larger to fit on many pages. These are then printed out and placed side by side to recreate a large poster of the original image. Usually the image is also modified to be made up of small dots, similar to old comics.
"That poster is huge, it must have cost you hundreds."
"No, Wendy taught me about rasterbating, it only ended up costing like $10."
rasterbating by Chris DeHaan May 20, 2008

rasterbator 

The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.
The origonal definition for rasterbator was completly wrong, so I stole the one off the official site... google... duh
rasterbator by CSB November 4, 2005

Ride and a rasher 

Dublin slang - The promise of sexual relations and being allowed to stay overnight to partake of the morning meal.
Jaysus, if I play my cards right, I might get a ride and a rasher
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Respectfully 

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"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
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murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

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Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
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