" cautious "

 [ "cautious" ]

1: When you drop your keys in San Francisco and kick them all the way to Seattle before you bend over to pick them up

  * e.g.,  ... A prision inmate should be cautious when picking up a bar of soap 

 [ "Cautious" ]

1: A person with ginger hair. Derived from acting 'gingerly', being cautious.

  * e.g.,  ... Attention can be drawn to the proximity of a ginger with the exclamation 'I have a cautionary tale to tell', which will alert your friends to the incoming, whilst causing no unnecessary alarm to your cautious intruder. 

 [ "cautious carol" ]

1: One who,in a videogame or real life, tends to move around and do nothing to help anyone... A person cautious about everything they do and is a better distraction than anything. This is usually caused by a lack of skill or just being a really big pussy.

  * e.g.,  ... "Damn it, Hes being a cautious carol again,hes not doing shit except hiding." *friend* " Its better than the guy on my team giving the other team kills, hes a negative nathan" 

 [ "Cautious racism" ]

1: When a member of a race behaves cautiously around a member or members of another race in an attempt to avoid any form of racial or cultural disagreements,usually resulting in a series of ackward exchanges.

  * e.g.,  ... John:Why don't you ride home from practice with coach smith any more. Eric:Because he always turns the radio station from country to rap and starts speaking in slang ever time. John:Cautious Racism is a bitch. 

 [ "self cautious" ]

1: Excessively aware of your own being, and that you are being watched by others.

  * e.g.,  ... She was very self cautious as she performed her presentation in front of thousands of people last night. 

 [ "Cautiously Pessimistic" ]

1: An increasingly relevant wordplay on the cliché "cautiously optimistic". As the world continues in free fall, its much more realistic to expect negative outcomes. Therefore, its much more pragmatic to maintain a cautiously pessimistic demeanor, rather than a cautiously optimistic one.

  * e.g.,  ... My cat is always cautiously pessimistic when inspecting anything new that I bring into the house. 

 [ "Cautiously Optimistic" ]

1: Hopeful yet exercising caution

  * e.g.,  ... Patrick coined the phrase cautiously optimistic while dreaming of winning the lotto 

 [ "cautiously horny" ]

1: When you see a crazy-hot chick you want to bang, but are suddenly unsure if it's a chick

  * e.g.,  ... I saw this hot blonde chick with a tight little ass from behind, and wanted to take her to bone town, but then I saw she had some meaty calves and wasn't sure if it was a chick or a dude. Not wanting to give up too easily, I had to verify it was a chick. I was cautiously horny. 

 [ "cautiously optimistic" ]

1: A euphemistic (yet silly) way of saying "worried". Most often said by those on national news networks.

  * e.g.,  ... Joe Boorman was cautiously optimistic on whether his wallet would be found. 

 [ "Cautiously Optimistic" ]

1: Promising but I wouldn’t bet on it.

  * e.g.,  ... The Cleveland Browns look good this off-season and it should be their year, but they’re the Browns so I’m cautiously optimistic.