rebuild

To repair returned merchandise. Not necessarily synonymous with refurbishing, depending on company policy.

We don't rebuild here, we just refurbish.

We don't call it refurbished unless it's rebuilt.

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turning tail

Leaving due to cowardice.

Picture a mongrel putting its tail between its legs and peeing all over it and yelping, ki-yi, ki-yi, ki-yi off into the distance.

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buzzard breath

All the sweetness of breath that you'd expect of a creature that eats carrion.

If your idea of a hot meal was pavement pizza warmed over on the asphalt solar griddle, you'd have buzzard breath too.

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Code Red

1. Red-colored Mountain Dew product.

2. One of the earlier computer viruses that propagated both by email and over network connections.

Both of these came out shortly before 9/11 and the Anthrax scare, causing no end of confusion among duh-weebs and n00bs.

Normal, but technologically unprepared person: I was just sitting there drinking my Code Red (1) when Code Red (2) DLed and started spamming everybody in my address book.

Duh-weeb: I understand you got a Code Red infection, but did you spill it on the keyboard or the hard drive?

N00b: It's just scandalous that none of the doctors knew what I was talking about when I asked for inoculation against Code Red!

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Phobia

1. Psychologically induced, irrational fear of something that should not be all that scary.

2. In common usage, phobia is nothing more than something to accuse others of having when one wants to discount their opinions and be excused to behave in a way that they think is wrong.

1950s:
You shouldn't do that!
Fraidy cat!

1990s to present:
That's disgusting!
Don't tell me you have a phobia!

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word whisker

An irrelevant, meaningless word or noise that is interjected into speech when the speaker has run out of words, but is determined to keep on speaking.

The outward symptom of a serious psychologically induced speech impediment.

Well, um... I er, ah, well you know, like it's like this you see, I really don't have anything to say. But it makes me feel really important to hear myself talking.

-or-

Well fuck, you shoulda fuckin been there. He fuckin said fuck, and she fuckin said fuck what. And he fuckin said, fuck that! Not fuck, but fuckin fuck because I didn't fuckin really mean fuck. And she fuckin asked him when was he gonna get fuckin serious about fuckin puttin his fuckin dick where his fuckin mouth is? He didn't fuckin know whether to fuckin go suck himself or get fuckin laid!

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big time

adj. Much more than usual, to the max.

That suct big time!

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