Noun.
A) A quality that makes people in possession of it the epitome of cool. When trying to explain why this person is so cool you come up blank. Everyone knows this person and people like being around them.
B) Used to describe someone whos not necessarily hot but you are strangely attracted to.
"Hey do you know Jim?"
"Oh yeah, who doesn't. You know what's weird?"
"What?"
"Despite his shortness and slight chubbiness, I kinda want him..."
"That's cause he's got X factor..duh."
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In the political realm, an aspect of a candidate that will cost them votes no matter how they spin the situation. This is factually based on the Election of 1960 where John F. Kennedys's religion cost him votes. A woman running for president would have such a factor attached.
John F. Kennedy was a practicing Catholic and the first such Catholic running for president. Due to this fact of his religion, it cost him votes in the election. A number of Nixon votes were for the most part Anti-Kennedy, not Pro-Nixon. Since that time, such an unavoidable factor against a candidate was referred to as a Kennedy Factor.
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A bunch of ignorant shit that is said, not backed by the truth, but spreads anyway.
The O'Reilly Factor: "If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?" -on finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, March 18, 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beJ9yJpR_DA
Props to sxephil for the definition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdIU29wUCKw
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The measure of how good a party is going to be, depending on who is going to be there.
The right mix of people to make a party or a poker game tolerable.
Dennis: Hey Mark, you coming to my party tonight?
Mark: What's the cool factor?
Dennis: Jeff, Bill and Sean will be there.
Mark: Good
I'm going to cash's house tonight to play holdem, the cool factor is going to be off the charts!
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A term used in the early 1970's US Army Paratrooper School to describe the fear of jumping out of an airplane for the first time.
He had so much pucker factor as he was about to jump, you couldn't drive a ten penny nail with a two pound hammer through his ass.
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cherokee: i'll be there at 10am
@10am
friend: where the fk is he?
@12pm
cherokee: yo wassup
friend: thought u said we'd meet at 10. u dog
cherokee: suck my dick ey i was "busy". it's ur fault
friend: o yeh my bad forgot about the cherokee factor
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A factor that must never be forgotten during a public robbery. This is when a bystander, clerk, or other person tries to be a hero by pulling a knife, gun, or any other way of attacking the robber. The robber must never underestimate the hero factor, which could be deadly.
Are you kidding me!? You want to rob a GYM!? Don't forget the hero factor, my friend.
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