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    [Adjective]  | "de*fen*sive" | \ di-ˈfen(t)-siv \


    1: serving to defend or protect

    2: devoted to resisting or preventing aggression or attack

    3: of or relating to the attempt to keep an opponent from scoring in a game or contest; also : of or relating to a team that is not in possession of the ball or puck


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English defensif, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin dēfensīvus, from Latin dēfensus, past participle of dēfendere "to ward off, {see: |defend|defend}" + -īvus {see: |-ive|-ive};

    [Adjective]  | "self-de*fen*sive" | \ ˌself-di-ˈfen(t)-siv \


    1: of, relating to, or given to self-defense


    Origin: 1701 ;

    [Noun]  | "defensive" 


    1: a position serving to protect or defend : a defensive position


    Origin: circa 1585 ;

     Middle English defensif "something acting as protection," borrowed from Medieval Latin dēfensīvum, noun derivative from neuter of dēfensīvus {see: |defensive:1|defensive:1};

    [Noun]  | "defensive medicine" 


    1: the practice of ordering medical tests, procedures, or consultations of doubtful clinical value in order to protect the prescribing physician from malpractice suits


    Origin: 1969 ;

    [Adjective]  | "defensive" 


    1: intended to resist or prevent attack or aggression;


      * e.g., " ... a defensive alliance among the small nations against the aggressors "





    [Noun]  | "defensive" 


    1: a position of readiness to oppose actual or expected attack;


      * e.g., " ... their unexpectedly harsh words put him on the defensive "





     [ "defensive" ]

    1: Defending yourself every time someone says something to you .

      * e.g.,  ... Quit being so defensive . 

     [ "Defense" ]

    1: Something the New York Knicks can’t do

      * e.g.,  ... Wow the Knicks really suck at defense! 

     [ "Defenseful" ]

    1: The act of having a defense so dutiful that you become full of it

      * e.g.,  ... I am very defenseful of my position as a vegan. 

     [ "Defensive" ]

    1: The most defensive people in the world are the ones who call other people defensive, and never admit to being defensive themselves.

      * e.g.,  ... The girl says you're too defensive. 

     [ "Defensive" ]

    1: Defensive is no matter how many fights you try to pick with somebody, you always say you're the one fighting back. You're always David, the other guy is always Goliath, no matter what lead up to the incident.

      * e.g.,  ... The girl was defensive, but still expected to be treated as human. When you're defensive, the other guy isn't human, therefore why should you be. Defensive is the belief that you don't deserve to suffer as much as everyone else. Defensive is the assumption that you're the only one being pushed. 

     [ "defense" ]

    1: heroin

      * e.g.,  ... i shoot that defense nigga ! 

     [ "Defensive" ]

    1: Someone that always tries to pick on people they are too weak to acknowledge they have negative feelings for/about, so instead of acknowledging their negative feelings, they talk a bunch of shit.

      * e.g.,  ... The defensive girl that was always mouthy didn't want people to think she actually hated somebody, since that would contradict her false love/light/hope image, and people would then be able to pick back at her double standards after that, so she always made it look like she meant no harm by what she said. 

     [ "Defensive" ]

    1: Defensive is no matter how many fights you try to pick with somebody, you always say you're the one fighting back. You're always David, the other guy is always Goliath, no matter what lead up to the incident.

      * e.g.,  ... The girl was defensive, but still expected to be treated as human. When you're defensive, the other guy isn't human, therefore why should you be. Defensive is the belief that you don't deserve to suffer as much as everyone else. 

     [ "Shaggy Defense" ]

    1: When someone is caught committing a crime (mainly one sexual in nature, but can refer to all crimes), with overwhelming evidence to prove they did it; in their defense, the culprit denies that they were the one caught doing the crime. Derived from the Shaggy song "It Wasn't Me", which describes a man being caught having sex with another woman by his wife, and subsequently denying that it was him she actually saw.

      * e.g.,  ... When caught on video having sex with a 14 year old girl, R. Kelly employed the Shaggy Defense; he just denied that he was the one in the video. 

     [ "The Asuka Defense" ]

    1: When someone evades an accusation by just saying they didn’t do it and it works.

      * e.g.,  ... “She has no real alibi, she’s just throwing out The Asuka Defense.” 

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