A "basal book" is one that is absolutely crucial to a particular academic discipline or profession, a book that everyone who knows anything knows about. It is a book (or perhaps an article) that forms the basis for understanding a certain topic or joining a certain conversation. It is often the sort of book that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read. It is always the sort of book or article that cannot be digested properly by reading it all the way through just once, but must be studied and digested (analytical reading helps with this).
Greg Glassman's article "What is Fitness?" is a basal article for the Crossfit movement.
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" is a basal book for the environmentalist movement.
"Mein Kampf" is a basal book for the Nazi movement.
To cut friends off Facebook, either because you are tired of them or just have too many friends or because you don't want coworkers seeing your party life.
Man...bitches pissed me off so I had to Prune the Book.
Where Parker and I hide every irrelevant/irreverent thing my friends say.
Van - “Dang now Levi’s gonna put it in his quote book.”
When you and your friends put down quotes in a book or a txt file and keeps them
Simpbuilder: My dad pooped here once
Neoapex: that’s going on the quote book
An author who signs copies of their book at random whilst traveling across the globe.
That Chris Brogan just book bombed another Borders.
A book look is when they look at you with a look that looks like it came straight from a book
Person 1: I think he really likes you
Person2: possibly
Person1: dude he gave you the book look
Person 2: REALLY!
a name used for a player that has the guild name "Chapter" in the game Deepwoken.
Look its another Book Monkey flooding.