A straw man argument featured on the popular series South Park.
My client was found with blood all over his clothes and a gun in his hand, but because Kelogg's the breakfast of champions, you must find him not guilty.
The act of pulling out your cell phone after seeing someone you know but want to avoid conversing with them. The hope is that they see that you are busy on your phone, so they decide they shouldn't approach you. This must be done before the person notices that you in fact, saw them first.
I saw my old neighbor outside while I was checking the mail today. I pulled out my cell phone and started defensive dialing so that I wouldn't have to get stuck talking to him for the next 10 minutes.
The act of pretending to be homosexual in order to deter the less desirable members of the opposite sex. The move also can inversely serve to infiltrate social circles in an attempt to court a member of the opposite sex, or to deter jealous/suspicious spouses.
The school placed me in Theater (The preferred electives were taken). I used the Rainbow Defense to pull more women in that class. And I was totally gonna end up at one of their sleepovers and 'get curious' until I got expelled from that school...
The act of nuking yourself so hard that your enemies desist on taking over.
As if in response to Sora's laugh, one more City went down, taking the enemy units with it. They'd used the nuclear option in their own territory - the famous "Belkan Defense" - No Game No Life. Volume 8.
Where the stress and work of artistic expression is used to excuse substance abuse, chemical dependencies and other toxic coping-mechanisms.
"I also employed the world-famous Hemingway Defense... which goes something like this: as a writer, I am a very sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don't give in to their sensitivities. Only sissy-men do that. Therefore I drink. How else can I face the existential horror of it all and continue to work? Besides, come on, I can handle it. A real man always can."
-- Stephen King
a) wounds, mostly on hands/arms, a victim gets when trying to fend off an attacker
b) (joke) scratches on the back a man can get after wild (but consentual) sex
a) The victim had defensive wounds all over his forearms, cuts from a small knife.
b) Hey! You have defensive wounds all over your back! Your GF is a real scratcher!
To follow ones heart no matter what anyone else tells you.
Jon skipped out on rehab with the Disney defense.