(n.) a complex thingy made of various interconnected bits of stuff. the web of a spider is made of silken strands strewn in a net-shape between tree branches and other detritus. the web of political intrigue is made of backstabs and power-grabs strewn between taxpayer dollars.

alternatively, "web" may also be a distinctly radical way of saying "the internet."

(adj.) in exchange for having done something important and then died

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

Life...is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast

Anyone not from 'round these parts. And we don't like those types 'round here.

to desire a situation that didn't happen due, usually due to making a decision that was more logical or convenient or more beneficial (at that point-in-time)
example: i regret not going to community college and then transferring to university because i would've saved thousands of dollars and still would've graduated within four years anyway!

(n.) the reason for carrying on with a custom long after you've forgotten the actual good reason

(n.) with your eyes closed and your mind resting, you just might link to the OG.

(also: dreams)
(also: default mode network)

The least hateful form of dejection.
(also: please)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:

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The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.
Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!"

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It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

when someone cancels plans you've made together and you realize you now have some free time to yourself.

(also: introvert)

(n.) the pursuit and slaughter of rare and exotic animals in africa, packaged as a vacation for rich and adventurous sorts of people

(n.) an elderly man in a pointy hat and robe with star patterns on it. one must hope they also have magical abilities to accompany this garb, or else they'll simply be a very sad and badly-dressed man.

a shepherd's staff held by a bishop in order to present himself as "one of the laymen"

a song that constantly plays in the background whenever italian things are happening

you know the one i mean.

(n.) a man who pays unusual and excessive attention to the quality and appearance of the clothing he wears; a man fixated on style and fashion.

often mocked, but sometimes also feared. a man in tights will nearly always fall into this category.

(n.) "lowly, humble," literally "on the ground". an act of submission.

(also: humus)
(also: humble)
(also: humiliation)

(n.) when thing go boom big

(n.) if a shelf does not hold books or spices, is it a real shelf?

A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
(also: the devils dictionary)