" deductions "

 [ "deductible" ]

1: An insurance term that means the amount of money that you have to pay before the insurance company pays anything.

  * e.g.,  ... If your deductible is 500 but the damage to your vehicle is 75, you pay all 75 dollars, because the 75 is less than your deductible. 

 [ "Deduct" ]

1: To subtract from a total, as opposed to concrete items.

  * e.g.,  ... I deducted ten points from his total when it was revealed that he had participated while wearing sandals, clearly violating Rule 1.10B. 

 [ "Deductive" ]

1: A strength through a statement or law.

  * e.g.,  ... This whole thing about stealing is just deductive. 

 [ "deduction" ]

1: A physical or personal/social characteristic which necessitates a loss of points on the physical/social attractiveness scale (as figure skaters receive deductions for errors in their routines)

  * e.g.,  ... Super butt and danced it off, but talked about herself all night and hasn't brushed her teeth in a week--major deductions.  

 [ "Deduction" ]

1: 1) An idea formed by deducing.

  * e.g.,  ... 1) I made the deduction that somebody had stolen my goldfish for revenge after putting the clues all together. 

 [ "Deduction" ]

2: 2) Subtraction.

  * e.g.,  ... 2) The ten-point deduction in round two really stomped out his internal fire; he just played the rest of the rounds out after that and took the loss. 

 [ "deductible" ]

1: A word black people manage to make sound like "dyuhdjucktible" Its proper usage is not defined, and can be dropped randomly whenever it feels right. "Youse about to pay a dyuhdjucktible.

  * e.g.,  ... HATS RIGHT I BACKED INTO YO CAR NYUKKA! WHAT YOU GONNA DO? WHAT YOU GONNA DOOOOOOO? 

 [ "standard deduction" ]

1: The traditional Lenten sacrifice of abstinence from non-seafood meat (beef, pork, chicken, lamb, etc.), as opposed to any additional sacrifice like chocolate, beer, video games, or sex.

  * e.g.,  ... GF: Are you gonna give up playing Guitar Hero for Lent? 

 [ "Dirty deductible" ]

1: When an auto insurance company has inexplicable legal protections and uses them to willfully fart on strangers. It’s not personal. It’s just business.

  * e.g.,  ... You mean I have to get a dirty deductible any time there is an accident, even if it’s not my fault? Gross and weird. 

 [ "Fisher's deduction" ]

1: The more issues a person crudely shoehorns down into a liberal/conservative dichotomy, the more certain you can be that the person is an American

  * e.g.,  ... Exact origins are unknown, but Fisher's Deduction is a maxim or meme found in USENET and other online discussions, similarly to Godwin's Law.  

 [ "standard deduction" ]

1: The traditional Lenten sacrifice of abstinence from non-seafood meat (beef, pork, chicken, lamb, etc.), as opposed to any additional sacrifice like chocolate, beer, video games, or sex.

  * e.g.,  ... GF: Are you gonna give up playing Guitar Hero for Lent?