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redundonym

The improper use of an acronym, whereby the last term is repeated in its full form for some unknown reason.
Person 1: Is there an ATM machine around? I have a new PIN number I want to try out.

Person 2: Nice redundonym, jerk. I think there is an Automatic Teller Machine Machine around the corner. Hope the new Personal Identification Number Number works.
redundonym by jrs1 December 19, 2010

redundantly redundant

The repetition of something that has already been unnecessarily repeated.

See "redundantly redundant".
Earlier today basketball star Kevin Garnett was escorted out of the local tanning salon. The salon's owner said that "allowing Kevin to use a tanning bed again would be redundantly redundant." Phoned for comment, Nicole Kidman simply said, "What kind of bed?"

redundelicious 

Taking something delicious and adding more of that same delicious ingredient to it.. therefore multiplying its deliciousness exponentially. Warning: may cause diabetic shock.
Dude, did you just dip that Ho-Ho in chocolate sauce and sprinkle sugar on it?
--Yeah man, it's redundelicious!

redundant 

Excessive, unnecessary, superfluous (exceeding what is necessary). Perhaps the opposite of oxymoronic (a juxtaposition of two seemingly contradictory meanings).
Just a few redundant phrases:

ATM Machine ("Automatic Teller Machine Machine")
Greenwich Village ("Green Village Village")
PIN Number ("Personal Identification Number Number")
cute dog/ cute cat
Catholic Pope
an added bonus
over-exaggerate
false pretense
completely surrounded
and etc
unconfirmed rumors
HIV Virus ("Human Immunodeficiency Virus Virus")
preplan
preheat
prerecord
La Brea Tar Pits ("The the tar pits tar pits")
lukewarm ("warm warm")
written manuscript
redundant by Lorelili July 25, 2011

Redundancer

A person or people that feel the need to post a definition on this site that has been posted multiple times

A person that says or does something that wasn't at all necessary
Wtf? I already saw this definition, these guys are a bunch of redundancers!

That guy didn't really need to do that, what a redundancer

redundant 

see "redundant"
redundant by Anonymous April 11, 2003