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Flatten and Reinstall 

To format and then install a computers Operating System, typically due to being hacked.

From a technical perspective this involves formatting at least one partition.

The "Flatten" comes from a hurricane analogy; flattening the landscape and having to rebuild from nothing.
You've been hacked and they got root? Flatten and Reinstall.

You listened to a Sony CD? Flatten and Reinstall.
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Flatten and Reinstall 

Your only option after your computer broadcasts your IP address.
scott@localhost:~$ netstat -r
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 192.168.0.4:34432 203.59.172.8:socks ESTABLISHED
...
scott@localhost:~$ su
Password:
root@localhost:~# flatten
Flatten and Reinstall v1.0
Volume to Flatten: /dev/hda
Please select your only option (flatten/flatten_reinstall): flatten_reinstall

Previous flatten detected. Resuming from backup point...
Flattening /dev/hda... done!
Volume flattened, begin reinstall?: yes
Volume reinstalling... done!
Flatten and Reinstall again? It's the only way to be sure: no
Flatten and Reinstall by covox November 19, 2003

Flatten and Reinstall 

You are broadcasting an IP address.

You must flatten and reinstall. It's your only option.
oh no, my computer is broadcasting an IP address! better flatten and reinstall
Flatten and Reinstall by covox November 19, 2003

Rentally Metarded

Someone who is stupid, and who doesn't think before they act/speak. Spoonerism of "mentally retarded," and has come to mean someone who isn't retarded, but acts like it.
Dang, that kid just forgot his shoes. He's rentally metarded.
Rentally Metarded by Jizzle B. January 12, 2006
The OpenOffice 3.3 uninstall takes you to surveys.services.openoffice.org/deinstall which would make a non-believer believe that deinstall is a real word.
deinstall? deinstall!
Deinstall by black morgek November 28, 2011

Reinstate bail 

An neo progressive idea so radical that it eliminates smurglaries.
We want to punish people who engage in smurglaries. We need to reinstate bail so that smurglaries will deprive itself of oxygen
Reinstate bail by Uncle Dimma January 12, 2022
A just more awesomer replacement for uninstall.
"move over uninstall here comes deinstall!"
Deinstall by Firawen May 19, 2008
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murderhobo 

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hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

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