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shoeboxing 

An artform whose means of expression involves the repurposing of forgotten household artifacts (eg. old letters, poems, journals, notes) commonly stored in shoeboxes to create offbeat biographical portraits or stories.
Found Magazine, Mortified and Trachtenberg Family Slidehsow Players are popular shoeboxing projects.
shoeboxing by ste99 February 27, 2007
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Shoeboxing 

When two people are spelunking each other (see Spelunking)
"Im not kidding, my mom caught us shoeboxing."

"Im going over to their house tonight, im hoping to shoebox xD"
Shoeboxing by El Stinky Pinky July 11, 2024

shineboxing 

1. The act of insulting someone via a reference to an embarrassing event in their past. The term was popularized by a scene in "Goodfellas" in which Billy Batts admonishes Tommy DeVito for his subservient childhood job by exclaiming "go home and get your f**kin shinebox."
2. Attacking someone for previous shameful actions, giving the impression said acts are indelible.
Mike opted to avoid attending his high school reunion, knowing they'd remember his loss of bladder control in gym class and be shineboxing him all night.
shineboxing by wordsmif August 25, 2010
Word of the Day on April 30, 2020

Shoeboxify 

v. Shoeboxified, Shoboxifying, Shoeboxifies

v. intr

1. To make an object or objects more Shoeboxy by

a. decorating with artographs AND/OR
b. notes

2. The process by which one's brain is utterly overtaken by all things Shoebox.
1. "I must Shoeboxify my folder!"

2. "You must Shoeboxify me! Mwahaha.
Shoeboxify by Allocin September 19, 2004

smokeboxing 

The act of smoking marijuana in an enclosed area to which no outside air can enter maximizing the effect of the marijuana through both first and second hand smoke.
When you smoke weed and close up your iron man suit to start smokeboxing and stay high
smokeboxing by Ryanpopvin July 19, 2016

Shadeboxing 

When you ask your best friend to hate on your shine so you can practice curving(blocking out) the haters BEFORE the REAL haters show up in your DM/TimeLine/RealLife
Girl: I juss bought a new car. Paid in full!
BF: Girl you wanna do some shadeboxing
Girl: Hell yea! I ain't ready for what my momma or my co-workers gonna say.

BF: ok..... " is he dead or who's grandfather paid for that?"
Shadeboxing by Sundré March 14, 2018

shoeboating 

drinking game whose name has possible british or european origin which involves drinking beer out of ones own shoe. Done entirely for the amusement factor or a gentle initiatory act at frat or college parties where individuals don't have enough sense or have too much alcohol in their systems to fear the social consequences of foot-breath.
"Yeah I can't believe that matt went shoeboating last week, he's a freak, always running around without socks in his old shoes. I wouldn't touch, let alone drink beer out of those shoes."
shoeboating by m@t December 16, 2006
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Back when I lived in upstate new york 

A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
Back when I lived in upstate new york, I also had to park on the street - on two occasions, we got enough snow, mixed with just the right plowing, that my car was lifted off the ground from so much snow being jammed underneath it.
Word of the Day on August 31, 2026
Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026

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."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026

age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 27, 2026
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