The act of not responding when asked an important question, typically via email or voicemail. Often used in the hope that the problem will just go away.
Damn! My boss's is really giving me the mum act about my raise request.
Legislation passed in 2010 after hooks up with girls your bed wouldn't approve of. Prohibits sexual acts with women who are not up to a certain level of hotness.
Dude, forget her shes like 250 pounds, what happened to the standards act?
Acting A Roy means to act like a Bozo
“oh yea john likes to make fun of disabled kids”
“fr john be acting a roy”
Acting weird, fake, out of character, or even acting showery
“Man I’m not sure what’s going on with Reggie… ever since he started hanging around those new guys, he’s been acting joe!”
A act of making your own rules, even if the grounds for those rules are shaky or non-existent. Results may very under the Cornwill Act and are lucky to not be challenged.
See that guy there he uses the Cornwill Act at work and gets results. Good thing his boss doesn’t know.
A form of acting where it only requires one's voice to express emotions or provide information to the audiences, ranging from presenting characters, to narrating an event that unfolds in the scene. The individual who performs this type of act is also refered to as voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent.
Friend: Dude! The voice acting in that video was so so good! I genuinely cried along with the protagonist after seeing the things it had to go through.
You: Oh really!? Thanks man.
Friend: Hold up! Are you?
You: (Changes voice) Ah yes old chap, I am.
Friend: OH MY GOD! Can I hug you?
You: Oh how kind of you. Absolutely :)
Acting in particularly foolish manner
Would you two stop acting the maggot and do your homework