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    [Noun]  | "cau*tion" | \ ˈkȯ-shən \


    1: warning, admonishment

    2: precaution

    3: prudent forethought to minimize risk


    Origin: 1566 ;

     Latin caution-, cautio precaution, from cavēre to be on one's guard {mat|hear|};

    [Verb]  | "caution" 


    1: to advise caution to : warn


    Origin: 1683 ;

    [Idiom]  | "throw/fling/cast caution to the wind" 


    1: to stop being careful and do something that is dangerous or that might result in failure

    [Idiom]  | "err on the side of" 


    1: to use or show more of (something) than may be needed so that one can be sure that he or she is using or showing enough of it

    [Verb]  | "caution" 


    1: to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk;


      * e.g., " ... the doctor cautioned that I should still be careful using my sprained wrist for the next several days "



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    [Noun]  | "caution" 


    1: a close attentiveness to avoiding danger;


      * e.g., " ... the extreme caution with which the zookeeper handled the snake "





    2: something extraordinary or surprising;


      * e.g., " ... how she manages to drive her car without destroying the neighborhood is a caution "



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    3: something that tells of approaching danger or risk;


      * e.g., " ... this is just a caution that the following paragraph practically gives away the entire plot of the movie "



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     [ "caution" ]

    1: A word that I can't understand.

      * e.g.,  ... Caution is a word that I can't understand. 

     [ "caution" ]

    1: A funny person; someone who makes you laugh

      * e.g.,  ... Oh Brittany, you're such a caution! 

     [ "caution" ]

    1:  to be wary

      * e.g.,  ... we need to use caution when killing people. 


     [ "caution" ]

    2:  acronym for Can Anyone Under Twenty Ingest Oxygen Nytrate

     [ "cautionate." ]

    1: to act with caution

      * e.g.,  ... Be cationate the floor is slippery 

     [ "Caution" ]

    1: This is not caution. I am a university professor. It is not a particularly cautious act/behavior to write vaguely disgusting and diachronic definitions of angels, wolves and migration on a public dictionary site that anyone could read. I like writing my autobiography in the form of Urban Dictionary definitions. This is not, as I said, caution.

      * e.g.,  ... Writing intensely personal definitions of futurity, modernity, you name it, on a public dictionary site that you will have no access to once you press send. To do this without caution. 

     [ "Caution" ]

    1: Describes people who have no sense, do crazy things or get you into trouble by association.

      * e.g.,  ... Is Billy standing on roof of the KFC again? That boy is a caution. 

     [ "Caution Call" ]

    1: The act of calling your girlfriend (or anyone for that matter) and hanging up right away simply so it says "Missed Call from 'your name'". Great in those many situations where you don't want to talk to a girl, but you want her to think you cared a little bit.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude A: "Crap I told that girl I would call her!" 

     [ "Abundance of caution" ]

    1: This type of caution is typically practiced by institutions and larger private sector organisations seeking to minimise exposure to personal injury or similar legal claims but has during the early part of 2020 increasingly been adopted by individuals seeking to cover up their total panic on realising their previous publicly stated position on a matter of significant risk was riddled with hubris and incoherent bravado.

      * e.g.,  ... “...out of an abundance of caution, temperature checks are now being performed on any individuals who are in close contact with the President and Vice President...” 

     [ "Caution Treatment" ]

    1: Using four-way caution lights in a vehicle in order to signal cars behind you to pass to get the privacy you need for road head.

      * e.g.,  ... Nikki: Baby, I'm not doing this now, there are like five cars behind us! 

     [ "caution flush" ]

    1: When you've taken such a massive dump that if you don't flush before you wipe your ass, you'll probably overflow the toilet

      * e.g.,  ... Oh my god, I was so embarassed when I nearly overflowed my new boyfriends' toilet. 


     [ "caution flush" ]

    2: (similar to the courtesy flush)

      * e.g.,  ... You should have used a caution flush 

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