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      [Noun]  | "nuclear option" 


      1: the option of using nuclear weapons in war

      2: an extreme option regarded as a drastic step or last resort; specifically, US politics : a parliamentary procedure in the U.S. Senate by which the requirement of the affirmative votes of a supermajority of senators is changed to require only a simple majority to invoke cloture in order to stop a filibuster and allow a vote on a matter (such as a judicial nomination) to proceed


      Origin: 1962 ;

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       [ "nuclear option" ]

      1: An act of retribution or last resort that is unwarranted or overly severe in its consequences.

        * e.g.,  ... She de-friending him on Facebook was the nuclear option; it was unnecessary and embarassed him in front of his friends. 

       [ "nuclear option" ]

      1: The new, hip word for 'last resort' coined by the creative vocabularies in the united states senate.

        * e.g.,  ... Buying out the Mom & Pop store was the nuclear option. 

       [ "nuclear option" ]

      1: The term for the Republican maneuver to severely limit filibusters in the Senate, thereby granting a large amount of power to a simple Majority.

        * e.g.,  ... If the GOP excercises the nuclear option, the U.S. is in deep doo-doo. 

       [ "Nuclear Option" ]

      1: When a group outlandishly robbed something, then whine as if they are being mistreated when others try to interject them from bringing the stolen good home.

        * e.g.,  ... The republican party invoked the nuclear option to confirm gorsuch to the supreme court, dude who should have never been there 

       [ "The Nuclear Option" ]

      1: The common act when a classmate searches something embarrassing on your school computer so you get revenge by searching, on their computer, "gay down syndrome midget BBC zootopia fart p*rn" on their computer as revenge.

        * e.g.,  ... Classmate: WTF why did you search that on my computer?! The school will see it on my browsing history Other guy: I had to take the nuclear option unfortunately 

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