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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.range86-183.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 15, 2011 07:49AM

clues - The musical form that came directly after the blues,

Define musical

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.static.snap.net.nz)
Date: August 15, 2011 11:18PM

Musical - Calling an elk on a cellphone.

(beats snakes on a plane anyday...)

Define - moose

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-156.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 18, 2011 07:47PM

A silky grey cow

Define old bull

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: annie (164.53.222.---)
Date: August 23, 2011 03:14AM

old bull : energy drink which has been aged to perfection



Define : mature

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: August 23, 2011 07:50AM

Mature: brother of one of the writers of "Do They Know it's Christmas?"

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Define hit

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: August 23, 2011 12:49PM

Hi-T: a quick, but substantial snack taken at in the late afternoon.

Define: Tea

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: August 23, 2011 01:17PM

Tea: according to Julie Andrews, it is a drink with jam and bread, but I have always thought that bread, especially spread with jam would become too soggy if dunked

define dunked

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Gary Indiana (50.104.232.---)
Date: August 27, 2011 02:12AM

Dunked: to be renounced by one's niece or nephew, if you are a male; if female, the verb is "daunted."

Define: renounced

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.glfd.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: August 29, 2011 06:47PM

Re-noun-ced

Not for the first time, misused a verb out loud.

Define repeatedly.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: August 30, 2011 03:46AM

repeatedly - When one bit of marshy ground looks exactly the same as every other bit.

Define - marsh

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Gary Indiana (50.104.232.---)
Date: August 30, 2011 04:11AM

marsh-- lush wetland teeming with life in all shapes and sizes; covers the entire surface of the planet Mars...(ssh!)

Define-- planet

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: August 30, 2011 07:25AM

planet: to decide beforehand what you..... err.....wanted to type

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Define chaotic

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: August 30, 2011 01:11PM

Cha-otic - the ability to hear someone else trying to sneak in an extra cup of tea, without offering to make you one.

Define: sneak

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Gary Indiana (50.104.232.---)
Date: August 30, 2011 01:12PM

chaotic: a person afflicted with the annoying habit of punctuating their conversations with Cuban dance steps and the exclamation "cha cha cha!" See also: St. Vitus' Dance; Tangent.

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Define conversation

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Gary Indiana (50.104.232.---)
Date: August 30, 2011 01:26PM

sneak: to emerge as the winner in a photo finish ("he got there in the _sneak_ of time")

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Define: winner

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.static.snap.net.nz)
Date: August 30, 2011 10:56PM

winner - a season, said by someone with a speech impediment.

Define - impediment.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: September 03, 2011 04:22AM

Impediment: (geol) a device for digging out samples that will eventually be completely useless for the project for which they were acquired.


Edited coz I'm having an attack of the richard craniums.


Define: richard



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2011 04:23AM by bunyip.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: September 03, 2011 10:21AM

Richard: a garden where money grows (isn't it a pity most of them were devastated in the Great Credit Blight of 1436?)

Define: plantation

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Gary Indiana (50.104.232.---)
Date: September 03, 2011 03:13PM

<Just now getting the joke behind the title "Poor Richard's Alamanac.">

Plantation: athletic contest loosely modeled on Amish "barn raising": plant seed by hand over an entire field in one hour. Originally a way of helping an ailing neighbor, it evolved into a rigorous test of stamina. Tragically, not yet an Olympic event.

Define: tragically

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: September 04, 2011 05:19AM

tragically: side lane off boulevarde of broken dreams




define: boulevards

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