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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.
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[ "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.
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[ "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.
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[ "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
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[ "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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