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when you accept someone back as your friend for a trial period. That is, they sucked it up as your friend for a while so you are giving them a chance to redeem themselves.
Sally didn't call me once over break but I'm giving her a trial basis friendship to see if she can get her stuff together and be a real friend.
A booty call that extends into other dating activities usually reserved for monogamous couples, such as home cooking and regular oral sex, while maintaining the casual and open nature of a booty call relationship. The 'free trial' is sampling intimacy without actually commiting to it.
I realized after he spent Saturday night spoon-feeding me tiramisu and giving me copious oral pleasure, and then didn't call me for two weeks, that he was a free trial citizen.
1692, in Salem (now Danvers), Massachusetts, fourteen women and six men were executed on charges of witchcraft because of the antics of a group of girls and young women.
The girls, who were most likely acting and seeking attention, had been screaming hysterically, thrashing about, uttering strange sounds, and were generally acting in very aberrant ways. Owing to the already tense atmosphere of the village, people suspected witchcraft and, upon hearing the testimonies from these "possessed" girls, they were willing to follow whatever the girls said. The Puritans, as humorless and superstitious as always, were convinced that God had abandoned them.
By October of that year, nineteen people were hanged, one man was pressed to death under a board weighted with rocks, and hundreds had been jailed. It was only when the girls began accusing ministers, men, children, the wealthy... and the governor's wife of witchcraft that the authorities finally intervened and stopped the trials.
The Salem Witch Trials would probably not have gone very far had the girls named very respectable people first, but they first named outcasts, people who were already suspect by the community, such as Sarah Good (an irritable beggar) and Sarah Osborne (a bedridden old woman who rarely went to church). But soon the accused included highly unlikely people: the arrests of Rebecca Nurse (a pious, elderly matriarch, highly respected by the community) and Martha Corey (pious and respected, but skeptical about the credibility of the girls) shocked Salem; it meant that anybody could be a witch.
The youngest accused: four-year-old Dorothy Good, the daughter of Sarah Good, who probably confessed to be with her mother in jail. While spared, Dorothy lost her mother and was traumatized for the rest of her life.
Now the Salem Witch Trials are invoked to recall Joseph McCarthy's legacy or any other irrational panic that leads to scapegoats.
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A cheap tactic used by shareware makers involving a limited- or full use- period of thirty (30) days in which you can find out if you actually want to use the product. Generally, software with a 30-day trial period is not worth downloading, although there are some exceptions.
"Did you see that thing on Download.com?"
"Oh, you mean the Sea Turtles Paradise?"
"Yeah. It had a 5-day trial so it must be better than that other one that had a 30-day trial!"
"fo' shizzle my nizzle!"
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An infamous part of the hit game Blox Fruits where 3 friends are pitted against each other in a death match and many friendships are destroyed
Person 1: Yo I'm about to do a v4 race trial
Person 2: damn
Philosophy pioneered by Danny that deals with crushes. If you have a crush, you have 30 days to do something about it. Whether it be a date, sex, or going out, something must be done in 30 days. If by the end of the 30 days no progress is made with you and your crush, you have to move on to the next one. There are also 10 and 15-Day trials, but for those to work, the crush must know you like them.
I hope my 30-day trial with that hot senior in yearbook works.
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When some asshole starts trouble with you, and then sets you up the be the bad guy and take all the heat.
One of the boss's stupid bitches starts a crazy arguement with you at work, and then runs to the boss, who she is fucking, to get you in trouble.
KATE: What happened Jane?
JANE: Salem Witch Trial, Kate. One week off with no pay.
KATE: But Alice started it! You're right -- Salem!
JANE: Yea, maybe I better start fucking the boss so I don't get fired.
KATE & JANE: NNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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