" license "

 [ "license" ]

1: A license is a document that grants the bearer permission to engage in an activity or occupation that is otherwise considered illegal.

  * e.g.,  ... cop: "Show me your license!" 

 [ "license" ]

2: If you pay "tribute" to a government agency for their protection and friendship they will issue you a "license" to fish, hunt, drive, marry etc with impunity.

  * e.g.,  ... driver: "I don't have one." 

 [ "license" ]

3: A method of the "state" exercising control of the populace.

  * e.g.,  ... cop: "You're under arrest..(enter standard Miranda warning)" 

 [ "license" ]

1: A human right or privilege, that was stolen by the government or surrendered to the government out of fear or compulsion, and then has been sold back to the bearer.

  * e.g.,  ... Human beings possess a God-given right to travel, hunt, fish, or establish a business, but, to operate a motor vehicle, shoot deer, attempt to catch a trout, or set up a coffee shop, the law requires a license. 

 [ "license" ]

1: According to the dictionary, one set of definitions of 'license' is

  * e.g.,  ... Modal libertarian: I love to exercise my liberty by watching some porn while I smoke pot.  

 [ "license" ]

2:  " Lack of due restraint; excessive freedom: “When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near” (Will Durant).

  * e.g.,  ... Paleo-libertarian: You are confusing liberty and license. 

 [ "license" ]

3:  Heedlessness for the precepts of proper behavior; licentiousness."

 [ "license" ]

4: The definition of 'license' that is synonymous with 'licentious' evolved from a very different definition:

 [ "license" ]

5:  " a. Official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing. See synonyms at permission.

 [ "license" ]

6:  b. A document, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission: a driver's license.

 [ "license" ]

7:  Deviation from normal rules, practices, or methods in order to achieve a certain end or effect."

 [ "license" ]

8:  These meanings are derived from "Middle English licence, from Old French, from Medieval Latin licentia, authorization, from Latin, freedom, from licens, licent-, present participle of licere, to be permitted."

 [ "license" ]

9:  License in the context that I want to focus on in related definitions such as libertarian and libertine is the lack of proper restraint or licentiousness.

 [ "license" ]

10:  Defenders of liberty have traditionally gone to great lengths to distance liberty from license. Tragically, modern leftist liberals and modal libertarians have conflated the the two. License is a perversion of liberty that has morphed into its opposite.

 [ "License" ]

1: A piece of worthless, meaningless plastic, usually with ones picture and some personal information. If you have one, it means you spend time @ the DMV like a fucking idiot taking tests and what not. If you dont it means you r a mexican or another minortity (not white trash) and dont feel that it is neccesary and wont get cought without one.

  * e.g.,  ... Adrian: I got pulled over again, and I still dont have a license. 

 [ "slut license" ]

1: A prescription for birth control pills.

  * e.g.,  ... The current crop of misogynist politicians consider any prescription for birth control pills to be little more than a slut license, in effect giving young women permission to be promiscuous. 

 [ "drivers license" ]

1: apparently a song everyone cries to

  * e.g.,  ... - Dude did you hear that new song Drivers License ?? - Yea bro, ngl i cried. 

 [ "Driver’s license" ]

1: New super song of Olivia Rodrigo

  * e.g.,  ... Hey have you listen to the song Driver’s license? 

 [ "drivers license" ]

1: this is a song used to dig big holes in the ground (using a shovel or your tears) when you're sad or in the mood to do some bad, sad things. it's a really good metaphor for being sad, heartbroken, lonely or having a self-diagnosed depression. it's also a really uni-song. it fits every mood a human can have, the vibes are just different depending on your current feelings.

  * e.g.,  ... david: hey how are you? 

 [ "unholy license" ]

1: A term defining an existing object or concept that violates natural laws and proves its own existence as nullity

  * e.g.,  ... Bro, 2017s Justice League is an unholy license. 

 [ "drivers license" ]

1: a song that describes the drama going on between olivia rodrigo, joshuah basset, and sabrina carpenter. olivia and joshua were rumored to have dated and joshua flirted with sabrina carpenter. in the song olivia says your probably with that blonde girl, and sabrina is blonde!

  * e.g.,  ... im crying over the song “drivers license” by olivia rodrigo. im having a drivers license situation right now.