Short Answer

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To answer a question without wanting to give any background information usually due to shame. Also used when you know the complete answer is extremely unexciting.

Ryan- Hey Brad did you sleep with that chick last night?
Brad-Short answer? Yes
Ryan- Long answer?
Brad-Yes.. and she turned out to be a "he" so lets drop it ok...

How was the movie last night?
Short answer? It sucked.

Short Answer by Paskeet September 13, 2009

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short answer

Any question on an exam that isn't multiple choice or matching. This is every student's worst nightmare and is the most common reason they fail, partly because they have no idea what to write down.

I failed the exam because every question was short answer.

short answer by The Real Driller October 30, 2023

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Short-Answer • short • short bus • short king • short hills • short man syndrome • Short Man's Syndrome • short people • short circuit • short eyes

Short-Answer

Any answer that is not multiple choice, matching, or an essay.

a. Matt is a "dumbass," where the word in parentheses is the short-answer
b. solve: 2x=4, "x=2" where the word in parentheses is the short-answer

Short-Answer by Matt "The Dumbass" Mounts January 18, 2009

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

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

grebo

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