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v. "to palin"
The act or an instance of looking like an idiot during an interview because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. Reasons for palining an interview include ignorance and/or arrogance. Instead of admitting you don't know, you try to fake it be injecting obscure information into an answer hoping that the interviewer will forget their question.
tr.v. palined, palin·ing, palins
"She was nervous and completely palined her job interview." -Kate Stigberg
"Their literature leans toward a comedy of small social palins and withered chastity" -James Wolcott.
"Tommy Bowden was palining all over the place when they asked him why his offense has been so miserable this year." -Ken Burger
See also: Sarah Palin vs. Charles Gibson, Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric, et. al.
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1. An ambiguous colloquial expression that may cause confusion and be interpreted in different ways depending upon circumstance.
2. A statement that has no known basis in science or reality.
3. A statement of religious identity.
Palinism
Definitions:
1. Drill baby! Drill! Oh, Boodles! No, I didn't mean that hole!
2. On drilling in the ANWR:
"God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines and fishing boats."
3. On Alaskan soldiers serving in Iraq:
"Well, God bless them, and I mean God and Jesus because without Jesus we'd be Muslims too or even Jewish!"
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(v) to abandon one's principles for short term gain
Tom, a devout vegan, palined when he consumed a happy meal solely to obtain the collectible toy it contained.
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Palin (palining, palined):
1. verb. To flub, fail or otherwise stumble in a response to simple, predictable questions in an interview; To give an off-topic and incoherent or syntactically suspect response to a simple, predictable question in an interview; to do likewise in any other human endeavor.
2. verb. To fabricate an untruth, that is easily verifiable as such (e.g. via the internet search tool Google), in response to a question for which one does not know the answer.
"I don't think I'll get that job, I totally palined the interview."
"I asked him about the Bush Doctrine, and he palined it by talking about horticulture."
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To avoid the question you don't know the answer to with nonsensical jibberish or by changing the subject.
She accused Steve of cheating and he just tried to Palin his way out of it.
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1) To answer a specific question with an answer to a completely different and unasked question.
2) To babble incoherently in response to a question that you have no answer to.
1) To Palinate:
Q: What are we having for dinner tonight?
A: We're eating at 7:00 PM
2) To be Palinated:
"Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
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Has two definitions:
1) Being completely blindsided by something.
2) To finish something quickly without checking the work and being screwed.
1) That girl told me I'm the baby's daddy...she totally Palined me.
2) I blew through the exam so I could get out of class quickly...after I turned it in I realized I was probably Palined.
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