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Q
- quantity
- the implied numerator in all mathematical expressions involving quality.
- Quantum Physics
- 1. the theory that reality is actually the result of an aggregation of observations, or what people as a whole would truly like to be the case; soon after this theory was made public, it was theorized that a large quantity of people actually wanted traditional physicists to quit their jobs, or jump off of very tall buildings in protest.
- 2. a lot of mumbo-jumbo about how looking at something changes what happens, backed up by oodles of math with one or two strategically placed smudges.
- queen
- 1. a homosexual man of strongly pronounced feminine and girlish traits; often a transvestite.
- 2. the monarch of the land of the same.
- queer
- 1. unusual, out of the ordinary.
- 2. straying from the norm, not quite right.
- 3. peculiar; exotic, not of the same cloth.
- 4. interesting, perplexing.
- 5. different but agreeable.
- 6. wonderful, exquisite.
- 7. the best decision a lexicographer ever made.
- query
- to question one’s sexual orientation.
- question
- the brief state between grace and damnation.
- quick fix
- a solution to a problem lasting from now until the close of the next shareholders’ meeting.
compare to fix. - quiff
- Scientific term used by Quantum physicists, Latin for cherry.
- quotable
- useful to advertisers; capable of being exploited; catchy; ant, majenta.