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    [Adjective]  | "caus*tic" | \ ˈkȯ-stik \


    1: capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive

    2: marked by incisive sarcasm

    3: relating to or being the surface or curve of a caustic


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Latin causticus, from Greek kaustikos, from kaiein to burn;

    [Adjective]  | "caustic" 


    1: marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings;


      * e.g., " ... caustic movie reviews that serve mainly to show how clever the reviewer is "



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     [ "Caustic" ]

    1: Corrosive and burning, but also interchangable for the word awesome.

      * e.g.,  ... "Man, when that shopping cart hit that wino, that was caustic" 

     [ "Caustic" ]

    1: The best non overpowered legend in apex

      * e.g.,  ... “Oh look there’s a caustic in that building”-bloodhound “Lets push him”-wraith “No, thats a bad idea its camped out we will die from gas” -bloodhound Wraith: “Whatever I’ll go alone(phases into building and caustic sprays her with the r-99)” Bloodhound:Ok I’m coming now(enters building and gets pummelled by caustic’s PK and dies) Wraith:OMG!!! Caustic is so overpowered his gas actually did damage and slowed me down!! *goes onto twitter and complains to a dev about caustic* Dev:*sighs 

     [ "Caustic" ]

    1: Burning, Corosive.

      * e.g.,  ... No one was safe when the satirist H.L. Mencken unleashed his caustic wit. 

     [ "caustic" ]

    1: capable of eating tissue paper

      * e.g.,  ... Sally: I saw Johnny eating some tissue paper. 

     [ "caustic euphemism" ]

    1: A substitute word or phrase that, while constructed to be socially more acceptable, drastically subtracts from the legitimate intent and purpose of the original.

      * e.g.,  ... So, how do we go from 'shell-shock' to 'battle-fatigue', from 'old dude' to 'senior citizen', from 'rape victim' to 'unconsenting intimacy participant'? Because our culture thrives on caustic euphemism: The dumbed-down, homogenized, neutralized language of the mindless majority who want it that way... 

     [ "Caustic Valley" ]

    1: A vagina that is perceived to be dirty, diseased, or in some manner toxic. Also sometimes referred to as the Caustic Cleft.

      * e.g.,  ... When a guy hooks up with the last remaining (and often disgusting) woman in the bar he will often tell his friends, "I am going deep into the Caustic Valley tonight boys." 

     [ "Caustic Comedy" ]

    1: Caustic Comedy is a particular form or type of humour: comedy that is acerbic, cutting-edged, even cruel or insulting but always amusing, indeed, corrosive and burning as the word ‘Caustic’ itself suggests. Google one of the great names in comedy and the word ‘Caustic’ is likely to be mentioned somewhere in their description.

      * e.g.,  ... His caustic comedy is a brand of aggressively caustic humour that targeted everyone from unknown “hockey pucks” to big-name celebrities. 

     [ "caustic soda" ]

    1: Caustic soda is the trade name of Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH), which is an agent used to clear drains of junk that has gotten there someway or other. It is allso a cheap source of hydrogen gas.

      * e.g.,  ... After my girlfriend took a shower, the drain was clogged with hair. I can't believe she has that much, or had. It took all my caustic soda to get rid of, so now I can't preform as Mickey the Mouse for the children. 


     [ "caustic soda" ]

    2: Put some in a bottle along with tin foil, add water and pull a balloon over the top. Watch as it inflates and there, you have a balloon o' hydrogen.


     [ "caustic soda" ]

    3: It can manipulate your voice in a similar way to helium, but it's cheaper, or when mixed with oxygen and lit it can manipulate other people's voices into sounding as though they're muted, along with sounds of any sort really.


     [ "caustic soda" ]

    4: Warning: Caustic soda is very caustic, as one might understand. Getting it in your eyes is actually worse than getting a strong acid there.


     [ "caustic soda" ]

    5:  Allso, a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is quite volatile.


     [ "caustic soda" ]

    6: Disclaimer


     [ "caustic soda" ]

    7: You didn't hear this from me.

     [ "Caustically observant" ]

    1: To make comments on the different ways people are annoying, disgusting and/or just plain weird.

      * e.g.,  ... "Models walking into the Community room. Each one looks hungrier and bitchier than the next. You know how you're not supposed to yell FIRE in a crowded theater? I bet if I yelled CHEESEBURGER it would have the same effect." Wow how caustically observant. 

     [ "caustic git, the" ]

    1: A verbose young lady noted for her acerbic wit and driving debate.

      * e.g.,  ... The Caustic Git tore him a new one when he tried to tell her to "cheer up." 

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