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Graffiti: Urban scrawl.

Communication Definitions Reading/Writing

Wisdom: Knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Definitions Intelligence Wisdom

Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter’s advantage for the other to have said.

Communication Definitions Language

Critic: One quick-on-the-flaw.

Definitions Occupations

Interior Decorator: A man who does things to your house he wouldn’t dream of doing to his own.

Definitions Occupations

American: One who gets mad when a foreigner curses the institutions he curses.

America Definitions Places

Absent: The notation generally following your name in a class record.

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Mugger: A benevolent citizen of the streets who frequently spares the lives of total strangers in exchange for any cash and valuables in their possession.

Crime Definitions

Yawn: It’s always dullest just before the yawn.

Definitions Wordplay

Father’s Feedback: The inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.

Children Definitions Family Food/Drink

Doorman: A genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Definitions Occupations

Dachshund: An animal half a dog high by a dog and a half long.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Animals Definitions Dogs

Virtue: Insufficient temptation.

Characteristics Definitions

Retraction: The revision of an insult to give it wider circulation.

Definitions Insults

Voting: A process of standing in line for the opportunity to help decide which party will spend your money.

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Sewing Circle: Where friendship hangs by a thread.

Definitions Friends Wordplay

Expert: A man from another city, and the farther away that city is, the greater the expert.

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Amusement Park: A walled city populated mainly by teenagers, who willingly pay to have their bodies and brains agitated on a variety of fiendish contraptions designed to induce vomiting.

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Ambulance: A vehicle used to show lawyers where the accident is.

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Memorial Service: A farewell party for someone who has already left.

Death Definitions

Experience: The name an older man gives to his mistakes.

Definitions Mistakes