The Devil’s Dictionary X™1,267 terms |
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- DARE
- double and triple dog
- data
- chiefly scientific usage: that which is malleable or ductile.
- déjà vu
- you read this already; it was funnier the first time.
- DBA
- a computer science acronym for “don’t bother asking.”
- dead
- an absolute level of well-being which is identified by a profound resistance to stress and diseases as well as a marked tolerance to pain and hunger; perfect health.
- deadline
- 1. an editor’s shameless display of authoritarian hypocrisy involving an arbitrary date and 1-20 weeks of presumable leeway.
- 2. what you’ll have to listen to in response the next time you see fit to call me at home.
- death
- 1. a mere formality separating you from intimate personal acquaintance with the great lexicographer.
- 2. a step which, as often as not, precedes dishonor.
- debate
- common name for a lost argument.
- debt
- the dedicated artist’s only lifelong companion, apart from hard work; the pay-off.