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2. A state of total disaster that ends in miserable failure.

Example: Before I came to work here, I worked for an internet company that did a valuejet.

@vanderwahled:= The position of a chair not being pushed in under a table.

Example: The cafeteria was a mess, the kindergartners had left all of their chairs vanderwahled. We had to go back and push them back in.

@Vanilla:= Plain, boring, lacking excitement.

Example: A) How was your date last night?

B) Totally vanilla, I was home by 9:30.

@vanity sitcom:= As per vanity publishing, a comedic television series starring an actor whose fame is on the wane. The actor and character they play will have similar names and the show will be named after them. Shows with multiple main characters are not vanity sitcoms. Geena and Bette are vanity sitcoms, Seinfeld is not.

Example: After Winona Ryder's latest escapades, there's nothing left for her but a vanity sitcom on the Fox network in 2003.

@vantastically annoying:= Beyond all realms of being annoying, super or uber annoying

Example: Our cashier today was vantastically annoying.

@vape:= syn. vaporize. Used to imply total destruction of something (often files on a computer).

Example: Erm, Steve? We -did- make some backups of all that important data, didn't we? I think I just vaped it...

@vapomix:= For cold sufferers, an easy to eat and digest cereal laced ever so delicately with Vick's.

Example: This chicken soup isn't helping my cold, honey. Make me some Vapomix.

@vapormeme:= Something that everyone talks about, but doesn't actually exist. (Cf: Similar to software that seems to never get here--vaporware.)

Example: The weblog community was abuzz with the notion of writing weblogger slash fiction, but in the end it was just another vapormeme.

@vaporware:= An advertised product that never actually comes to be. Especially in a catalog, under the header coming soon.

Example: The catalog showed this amazing new thingy, but it's six months later and there's still no such thingy.

Alas, more vaporware from Thingy, Inc.

@vark:= An anteater that runs away from fights.

V. To run from trouble.

Example: This big grasshopper arrived and he just varked.

@VBAddicism:= One who is addicted to the programming language Visual Basic.

Example: John has VBAddicism. He lost his job from being overly active in Visual Basic.

@vealboy, vealgirl:= A derisive title given to the gullible or easily picked on.

Example: Vealboy still wears his pants backwards like he's an early-90's kid rapper. Didn't the wedgie teach him anything?

@Veep:= Washington DC expression, the Vice-President.

Example: Since 9-11 no really knows where the Veep is at any given time.

@veg:= to relax, to chill out

Example: i'm going to veg out for the afternoon...

@Vegemate:= An Australian pal who sends you supplies of Vegemite when you are overseas.

Example: Hey, Barry, can you be my Vegemate when I go to Sweden?

@vegie:= An annoying thirteen-year old, especially those in grade 8.

Example: These damn vegies are everywhere. Its impossible to move.

@vehemenent:= The comparative (or even superlative) form of the adjective vehement,

accented on the second syllable.

Used as an intensifier, often in especially eloquent barroom discussions after several rounds.

Example: Hey! Calm down. I didn't mean anything by it. You don't have to get all vehemenent about it.

@vehicellular:= Relating to the use of a cell phone in a car

Example: The police ruled it a vehicellular homicide.

@velox:= newspaper slang for a picture of a picture.

Example: the frontpage of today's newspaper contains a velox.

@Velveeta (also Velveitre):= One who eats cheese sucks up to superiors for recognition. Also takes credit for someone else's results.

Example: He's gone Velveeta again, eating more cheese to impress the Captain.

@velvis:= Elvis Presley painting done on velvet.

Example: Love your velvis decorations.

@venerable.:= Cool!

Example: That's venerable.

@venting:= To release all your anger or to tell someone all your problems.

Example: I had to vent my problems at you.

@verb:= To use a noun as a verb.

Example: I like to verb words.

@verbaceous:= 1. Action-packed .

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