" pivot "

 [ "pivot" ]

1: turn (spin) around on the spot - or turn from a central point

  * e.g.,  ... On Friends, when Ross, Rachel & Chandler are taking the couch upstairs 

 [ "pivot" ]

1: A pivot is where a start-up company decides to switch direction in how they make their revenue. This is often after their first plan results in failure. Pivot as relates to entrepreneurship.

  * e.g.,  ... The yellow widget drew two dollars in sales, so the company did a pivot and decided to sell the pink widgets. 

 [ "pivot" ]

1: A stick figure animator created by Peter Bone. Many people post their animations on Youtube. Also a phone's name.

  * e.g.,  ... Pivot is easier than easytoons. 

 [ "pivot" ]

1: Pivot \ˈpi-vət\

  * e.g.,  ... Jenn was playing pivot last night, only thing keeping it from being gay sex. 

 [ "pivot" ]

2: Noun a : a person, thing, or factor having a major or central role, function, or effect b : the only female at an orgy.

 [ "pivot" ]

1:  Annie's least favorite word.

  * e.g.,  ... Karen had to pivot her body position to get the perfect post workout selfie. 

 [ "pivot" ]

2:  Annie's "game changer"

 [ "Pivot" ]

1: The precise way to bring a couch up a flight of stairs.

  * e.g.,  ... Ross-pivot, PIVOT, PIVAAAAHT 

 [ "pivotal" ]

1: crucial, Being of vital or central importance

  * e.g.,  ... Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions” (Henry A. Kissinger). 

 [ "Pivotize" ]

1: When someone fixes excel file data to be pivot table ready.

  * e.g.,  ... "Hey - can you pivotize this report? I can't sort through all this shit..." 

 [ "Pivoting" ]

1: To manipulate somebody into doing something, by telling them that they do not want to do it.

  * e.g.,  ... I know what you are doing guys! You are pivoting me into singing it. And I don't do jingles! 

 [ "Pivot" ]

1: Used by the media to explain how politicians often say crazy things to appeal to their base during a primary, and then adopt more moderate attitudes once they win their party's nomination. More generally, it's a euphemism for lying or any behavior which upsets our basic expectations of the social contract.

  * e.g.,  ... Mitt Romney pivoted on every major issue during the debate. When Fabrizio slept with all those hookers in Bangkok, he pivoted on his wedding vow to be "faithful and true til death do us part." During the Srebrenica massacre, the Serbian army pivoted on the position that slaughtering thousands of unarmed and defenseless civilians is a shitty thing to do.