Something a person says halfway through a long, pointless story with trivial details that are interesting to nobody except the storyteller.
(Fifteen minutes of droning blather). Long story short, (fifteen more minutes of rambling digressions.)
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A phrase describing the process of eliminating the silly extraneous nonsense, and delivering only the good stuff, that's long story short.
After a 10 day trip across the Heartland, well...long story short...we got engaged!
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a phrase when a person does not want to go into a certain subject; or speak of a certain matter.
Person 1:Hey I heard you in Jenny broke up what happened man.
Person 2: Yea its a long story.(thinks in his head:I'm getting tired of everyone asking that I don't want to talk about it what don't they get?
by Mrusername798 April 16, 2010
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A euphemism used when a story's actual details are too complicated to understand, or too embarassing to get into, or just too boring to bother with wasting the other person's time.
"Why did you two break up?"
"Long story, no plot."
by Alexandra August 6, 2004
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to summarize a longer story (short for to make a long story short)
Yes, but long story short you need to work harder.
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Contemporary version of Long Story Short. Typically seen as LSD in electronic media (twitter, Reddit, facebook, text messages, emails, etc). Most often used when the outcome of a story is predictable.
My cousin set me up on a blind date. Long Story Deleted, she has been disinherited.
by AllusiveCrayon June 2, 2012
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A midway point betwixt a long story and its bullet points ("long story short"). Extra useless information is provided strictly to occupy more of the reader/listener's time.

A "long story medium" will contain less information than the original story upon which it is based, but can still be condensed further into a shorter, more succinct story.
There's so much to tell about last night's date, but long story medium, we went to dinner where we both ordered entrees and the appetizers were delicious, saw a movie which was 2 hours long, ate ice cream in 3 different flavours, and I now have an STI.
by math-o-nerd June 9, 2010
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