 
- DARE
-
acronym, Drugs Are Really Excellent.
- data
-
chiefly scientific usage: that which is malleable or ductile.
- DBA
-
a computer science acronym for “don’t bother asking.”
- dead
-
an absolute level of well-being which is identified by a profound resistance to stress and diseases as well as a marked tolerance to pain and hunger; perfect health.
- deadline
- 1.
an editor’s shameless display of authoritarian hypocrisy involving an arbitrary date and 1-20 weeks of presumable leeway.
- 2.
what you’ll have to listen to in response the next time you see fit to call me at home.
- death
- 1.
a mere formality separating you from intimate personal acquaintance with the great lexicographer.
- 2.
a step which, as often as not, precedes dishonor.
- debate
-
common name for a lost argument.
- debt
-
the dedicated artist’s only lifelong companion, apart from hard work; the pay-off.
- debtors prison
-
the most centralized community of writers in the United States; a year-round writers’ convention.
- decaffeinated coffee
- 1.
are you kidding?
- 2.
a tiger without stripes, a lark without song, your mom without a “date” on Saturday night.
see also non-alcoholic beer.
- 3.
I mean, you have got to be kidding.
- 4.
a sucker punch that takes an hour to realize and all day to recover from.
- deduce
-
to remove the Devil from a thing.
- deep
-
opaque.
- def
-
abrv, defecation; e.g., “Those are some def tunes—what’s the matter, wouldn’t they flush?”
- defeatism
- 1.
an intelligent look at one’s situation and options; clarity.
- 2.
continuing education; the act of returning to school.
- 3.
depression revitalized.
- 4.
running out of blood-sugar mid-sentence and regretting the day one began learning to read and write.
- defeatism, 2
- 1.
the attitude that defeat is inevitable; realism; rationality.
- 2.
the attitude that defeat is inevitable; pessimism; treason.
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