Meaning to present a problem in a smaller, more crude form. Searches spiked after Madonna answered to the question "What do you think of Lady Gaga's Born This Way?" with "It's... um.. reductive".
by treybrown10 January 26, 2012
I bought a beautiful pair of black mate shoes last week and showed them to Max... I saw him with a exact pair this morning, he's so reductive to me.
by Mary Jane Hollands December 29, 2015
by Kelsey Julia Spenser July 14, 2008
The practice of providing advice and helpful suggestions to a novice regarding potentially dangerous activities in the hope that they will heed the advice and not cause hurt or harm to themselves or others.
Practicing harm reduction Keith showed Brittany how to IV drugs. According to him he didn't want the wrong person showing her the wrong way, because he knew she was headstrong.
by Nikki Stixx December 09, 2018
Reduction of order is a technique in mathematics for solving second-order ordinary differential equations. It is also a technique used in restaurants by math geeks who change their order to an amount less than originally requested.
I went to McDonald's and ordered two Big Macs, but I changed my mind and ordered only one. They didn't like my reduction of order.
by murr2k March 14, 2009
Sulty: "That was mad awks; they think I'm conservative but they saw me giving my hot manager a ride to the train."
Cool Guy: "Instead of ignoring them and making it more awks, you could have tried an Awksidation Reduction and explained that she was your manager."
Sulty: "You're right. Now they think I'm really liberal."
Cool Guy: "Instead of ignoring them and making it more awks, you could have tried an Awksidation Reduction and explained that she was your manager."
Sulty: "You're right. Now they think I'm really liberal."
by hashash007 August 22, 2009