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Freudian Slip: When you say one thing but mean your mother.

Communication Definitions

Friend: Someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though you’re slightly cracked.

Definitions Friends People

Diplomat: If you have the advantage over someone, and you lead him to think that he has the advantage over you, without giving him the chance to take advantage of you.

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Spilt Milk: Udder waste.

Definitions Food/Drink Wordplay

Whoa!: A brake for horses.

Animals Definitions

Pun: A short quip followed by a long groan.

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Clairvoyant: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Ambassador: An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

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Abstainer: A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Politician: One who is willing to do anything on earth for the workers except become one.

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Creativity: The sudden cessation of stupidity.

Definitions Intelligence

Conscience: The voice that tells you not to do something after you have done it.

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Old Age: When you wink at a girl and she says, “Something wrong with your eyes?”

Age Definitions

Hors d'oeuvres: A sandwich cut into 20 pieces.

Definitions Food/Drink

Sex: The formula by which one and one makes three.

Definitions Sex

Chaperoning: A spectator spoil-sport.

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Zoo: A place devised for animals to study the habits of human beings.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator
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Castration: A eunuch experience.

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Revolution: An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Dating: An elaborate prelude to mating that fulfills much the same function as the sniffing ritual in dogs, but without its forthright honesty.

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Snoring: Sound sleeping.

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