The Devil’s Dictionary X™1,267 terms |
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D2
- debtors prison
- the most centralized community of writers in the United States; a year-round writers’ convention.
- decaffeinated coffee
- 1. are you kidding?
- 2. a tiger without stripes, a lark without song, your mom without a “date” on Saturday night.
see also non-alcoholic beer. - 3. I mean, you have got to be kidding.
- 4. a sucker punch that takes an hour to realize and all day to recover from.
- deduce
- to remove the Devil from a thing.
- deep
- opaque.
- def
- abrv, defecation; e.g., “Those are some def tunes—what’s the matter, wouldn’t they flush?”
- defeatism
- 1. an intelligent look at one’s situation and options; clarity.
- 2. continuing education; the act of returning to school.
- 3. depression revitalized.
- 4. running out of blood-sugar mid-sentence and regretting the day one began learning to read and write.
- defeatism, 2
- 1. the attitude that defeat is inevitable; realism; rationality.
- 2. the attitude that defeat is inevitable; pessimism; treason.
- definition
- the vivisection tray upon which a word is splayed; while the gist may be clearly labeled with colored pins, resuscitation becomes problematic.
- deformity
- a distortion of a physical feature; e.g., “That Pamela Anderson can get work in spite of her obvious deformity is proof of the equity and charity of Hollywood.”