# Redefinitions (a game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366 "2006-10-05T08:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/161 "2006-10-10T03:12:46Z")
Subsistence–Demanding that one’s hoagie be made precisely to one’s specifications. Shingle ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/162 "2006-10-10T03:21:39Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble] Subsistence–Demanding that one’s hoagie be made precisely to one’s specifications. Shingle [/QUOTE] \*\*shingle: \*\* The state of having, or claiming, no romantic attachment, while heavily intoxicated. _Usage:_ “Naw…no girlfriend…Ah’m _shingle_…” impunity ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/163 "2006-10-10T03:32:14Z")
Impunity: Noun. The state of not being small and weak. Quahog ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/164 "2006-10-10T03:46:42Z")
Quahog: An exlamation made by an Italian-English polyglot upon ascertaining the location of a swine. Probate ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/165 "2006-10-10T03:55:28Z")
Probate–Adj. Relating to, pertaining to, or similar to, a probe. Used frequently in talking about alien abductions. Merovingian ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/166 "2006-10-10T11:55:10Z")
**Democrat:** someone who believes that all software should be made available in free trial versions. **Republican** ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/167 "2006-10-10T13:14:40Z")
Republican: One who makes the same bar crawl every night. **Repudiate** ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/168 "2006-10-10T13:35:09Z")
A assume that the disjionted spot between last night and this morning has to do with why I couldn’t find this thread for hours and was marked now as a thread I hadn’t opened in the past. Board freakiness. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/169 "2006-10-10T14:52:50Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] **Repudiate** [/QUOTE] **repudiate** _(re-POOty-ATE)_ : To have engaged in cunnilingus two or more times. snorkel ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/170 "2006-10-10T16:28:16Z")
**snorkel** : The sound made when one of a pair of Siamese Twin elephants conjoined at the trunk sneezes (thanks to Tim Conway) We haven’t done “banal” from post 147 or “Merovingian” from post 165, so I’ll leave those in lieu of a new word. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/171 "2006-10-10T16:42:39Z")
I think we did “banal” earlier in the thread. “Merovingian” is still up for grabs, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/172 "2006-10-10T17:13:28Z")
Merovingian: Of French architecture, to appear capable of yeilding easily. **Austere** ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/173 "2006-10-10T17:22:14Z")
Austere - A neutered Texan male longhorn. Vernacular ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/174 "2006-10-10T17:33:30Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Austere - A neutered Texan male longhorn. Vernacular [/QUOTE] **vernacular:** a one-lensed optical device used for seeing in the summer. **invective** ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/175 "2006-10-10T18:49:12Z")
Invective - The donation given in the vicarage for Christmas Service. Your Christmas tithe. Pernicious ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/176 "2006-10-10T19:09:10Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Pernicious [/QUOTE] Adj: dragon-like Crecendo ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/177 "2006-10-10T19:34:11Z")
Crescendo (n): The feeling of loss accompanied by having squeezed out the very last drop of your Crest toothpaste on vacation in Mexico. Infrastructure ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/178 "2006-10-10T20:03:48Z")
Infrastructure: low notes in a piece of music which carry the rhythm. Distinguished from percussion, in that infrastructure contains musical pitch. Related to ‘through-bass’. Involution. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/179 "2006-10-10T22:16:43Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Involution. [/QUOTE] \*\*involution: \*\* Development of genetic traits (e.g. conjoined eyebrows, low IQ scores) over time through marriages of close family members in isolated communities. persimmon ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/180 "2006-10-11T01:15:48Z")
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