retro-vote

when in times of economic crisis voters become frustrated and reject the politicians who are working to fix the problem and return to the policies that created the problem in the first place

The Obama Administration has worked hard to get our economy out of the Bush Depression and has made a lot of progress, unfortunately 2 years was simply not enough time to repair the 8 years of damage done by the Bush Administration. In the 2010 election people were frustrated by the slow recovery and we had a major retro-vote.

by Mr.Juan-derful November 18, 2010

retrovate

To return to an earlier state, the opposite of renovate or gentrify.

The hippies spashed brown paint on the walls of their building, removed a door, and broke two windows in an effort to retrovate.

by Mr. Noah Tall February 19, 2011

retrovate

To come up with an idea that you aren't aware is already around. From "retro" meaning backwards/before and "innovate".

To retrovate something, one must think it's an entirely new idea. That is, he must not have any prior knowledge of the idea being around. (Retrovation is a form of plagiarism if the idea is published.)

Man: "I had an awesome idea. You could go make me a sandwich, woman!"
Woman: "You might've just retrovated that, honey."
Man: "No back-talk woman, make me a sandwich!"

Guy: "I coined the phrase nbd two years ago, now everyone I know is using it!"
Girl: "Wow, that's pretty badass. . . Except it was the urbandictionary.com word of the day July 2, 2007. I think you might've retrovated it."
Guy: "God dammit... Sleep with me anyway?"
Girl: "Wasn't going to happen to begin with."

lamer21: "Dude, there was an xkcd on retrovation, check it out, it's comic 827."
blackHatDude: "Retrovation means you had the idea after, it doesn't mean you had it before and never publicized it. By the way, I thought I should inform you, I hit your cat the other day, he didn't run away."

by sarcastic_Slick December 20, 2010