Check out the spite of 'urban dictionary' entries on www.urbandictionary.com. The definitions are recursive, the act of viewing, reading and the emotions expressed are recursive.
by Jim Carhart January 26, 2007
The reiteration of expletives to serve the interest of comprehension for the recipient and catharsis for the speaker.
by Harry Flashman June 28, 2003
A Hegelian synthesis of self-referential cyclical time that argues that linear time and consciousness are a product of recursive cyclical time
by sandrashine July 24, 2017
An exchange between participants on an internet discussion board where there seems to be multiple levels of trolling; i.e., the victim might be trolling the troll, the troll might be aware he is being trolled and so trolls the victim's attempt at trolling, and so on. It is recursive in the sense that there is no limit to how many levels deep the trolling might be.
by mjrpes November 18, 2010
GNU is an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix." When the derivative acronym is expanded, the original acronym is repeated indefinitely. (Computer and Information Science)
"Yeah, and then he says to me, 'Did you notice that "GNU" is a recursive parsonym?'" "Like I give a f***." "What a flake."
"Yeah, and then he says to me, 'Did you notice that "GNU" is a recursive parsonym?'" "Like I give a f***." "What a flake."
by dreadsocks November 18, 2007
An acronym whose meaning contains the original acronym. For example, the programming language PHP stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", where one of the words the acronym shortens is the acronym itself.
- Dude, I just thought of a great acronym: FIAW! It stands for "FIAW Is A Word"!
- That's a recursive acronym, you dummy.
- That's a recursive acronym, you dummy.
by Geo1088 June 14, 2015
When, in the course of whining about how horrible one's life is, one begins to whine about how whiny one has become due to life. Eventually this becomes whining about the hypocracy of whining about whining, spiralling off into infinity.
Person 1: *sobbing* You must hate me because I'm so whiny!
Person 2: Stop recursive whining! It only makes things worse.
Person 2: Stop recursive whining! It only makes things worse.
by Guy Y. January 15, 2006