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Sciamachy 

English word derived from Greek roots, skia- meaning dark, shadows, machos meaning fighting. Thus, variously it means to fight shadows, fighting an unseen enemy, shadowboxing, a flurry of inexplicable movement like a fit (imagine someone fighting an invisible foe), and from that latter meaning, absurdity. It's also my online nick that I use pretty well everywhere, picked semi-randomly from my big old dictionary :-)
This war on terror is pure sciamachy: we don't know who the enemy is, we have no defined conditions of victory, and it can't be a war as such because wars are conflicts between states.
Sciamachy by Skiamakhos April 2, 2009
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sciamachy 

A futile battle with an imaginary
foe; fighting with a shadow.
sciamachy by Brandt Poole April 29, 2003
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Sciamachyx 

The guy from roblox that will eventually cringe at the fact he put himself up on this very sight. He also sets himself a target that if he sees this again he will hope to either have a korblox deathspeaker pack or a valkiyre or the headless horseman package. Otherwise he will be a developer.
"Jesus fucking christ, I really put myself up,"
Sciamachyx is a robloxian that originally was under the name of 1410xp and joined in 2016
Sciamachyx by Minemaster32367 March 28, 2020
A man who wears gold chains, shirts unbuttoned far too low, drives a car he can not afford and believes that all these things make him an amazing person. A scamache is extremely full of himself and generally sleazy. A pinky ring or any excessive amounts of man jewelry is a dead give away. In some areas of the country, they are referred to as a "guito".
Oh my gosh, some guy just fed me some corny line and said that if I slept with him he'd take me for a ride in his Corvette.

Ew, what a scamache.
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Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
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age gate 

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board chow 

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007
Word of the Day on August 26, 2026

young pup 

a young person, a young adult in their late teens/early 20s.
Ah, you're just a young pup at 23!
young pup by the dog May 30, 2006
Word of the Day on August 25, 2026
West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.
Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!
grebo by cactuscat September 15, 2006
Word of the Day on August 24, 2026
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