Language designed to sound like something without actually saying anything... Deliberately so ambiguous or watered-down as to be essentially meaningless.
Language designed to have a built in an escape hatch, to make it look like you are being bound without actually being bound.
When you say "Solely for the purposes of confirmation of the Amended Plan, and for no other purpose, the Parties agree that they will not assert that the Springing Lien Trigger Date has occurred," you are using weaselwords.
Weaselwords are commonly used amongst bureaucrats to appear as if they have an idea of what they are talking about. Beware when using in written communication as someone smarter may just pull you up.
Did you catch that legend carve up Caroline at the hearing?
Caroline? The weaselwords chick?
Yeah, that Caroline.
Nah mate, couldn't cop all the gibberish.
Douchebags that covet dictionaries, searching for big words to present themselves as intellectuals while attempting to confuse you with their smertness when in fact, they're complete fucking asshats that know sweet fuck all about what they're saying ... but it sounds good.
Common word weasels include graduates of artsy fartsy programs currently serving french fries and wondering how they'll pay for their $50,000 student loan for puppetry.
A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.
Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.
A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.
A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."