" pivots "

 [ "pivots" ]

1: any affliction that causes a person to tandemly discharge bodily fluids from both ends of the digestive track resulting in a squat-bend pivot motion to aim the fluids from the offending end toward a porclain goddess

  * e.g.,  ... If you think vomiting or diarrhea is the pivots, you are half right. 

 [ "Pivot" ]

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

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

 [ "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 

 [ "pivotal" ]

1: crucial, Being of vital or central importance

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

 [ "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. 

 [ "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. 

 [ "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 is a person who will help the pointman and wingman get hooked up with other girls.

  * e.g.,  ... Pivot whom walks in mentions a few good words about the wingman and pointman.