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    [Verb]  | "pro*cras*ti*nate" | \ prə-ˈkra-stə-ˌnāt \


    1: to put off intentionally and habitually

    2: to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done


    Origin: 1588 ;

     Latin procrastinatus, past participle of procrastinare, from pro- forward + crastinus of tomorrow, from cras tomorrow;

    [Noun]  | "procrastination" 


    1: a state, a habit, or an instance of being slow or late about doing something that should be done;


      * e.g., " ... Though she has a tendency towards procrastination, she never fails to turn in her papers on time. "





    [Verb]  | "procrastinate" 


    1: to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.;


      * e.g., " ... He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline. "





     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: Ill put up a definition later.

      * e.g.,  ... Ill put up an example later. 

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: What you're probably doing right now

      * e.g.,  ... I meant to do my paper, but went procrastinating at urbandictionary instead 

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: A similar experience to masturbation, it feels good while you're doing it, but it sucks afterwards when you realize that you just fucked yourself.

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: what a majority of teenagers are best at.

      * e.g.,  ... "im so darn good at procrastinationing its bad! 

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: The driving force behind writing a research paper.

      * e.g.,  ... I procrastinated too long, and now the paper is due tomorrow! I haven't even started on it yet!! *starts writing nonstop* 

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1:  the act of putting things off for later

      * e.g.,  ... Fake Procrastinator) Hey, you should join the "procrastination" group on Facebook! I just did! 


     [ "procrastination" ]

    2:  the act that 9466% of all people are committing this very second

      * e.g.,  ... True Procrastinator) Maybe tomorrow... 


     [ "procrastination" ]

    3:  i'll tell you later...


     [ "procrastination" ]

    4:  .........

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: Putting something that eventually must be done to the very last minute. Sometimes this method can be successful, and the person will get to spend a lot of time relaxing, and still get work done. Other times, however, it can lead to poor grades, incomplete work, etc. If one has a lot of work, it is understandable that the person will leave some for the last minute, although this person may be subject to adjectives such as lazy.

      * e.g.,  ... Me: Wow, I've got an 8 page history paper, a French project, a science lab, and a lot of other nightly homework... I'll do some now, but to avoid exhaustion, I'll have to use procrastination with the rest. 

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: I give up.

      * e.g.,  ... Im not even gona try to do homework at home. Only at about 6:00 AM do i work efficiantly or in lunch during shcool. 


     [ "procrastination" ]

    2: I stay awake till 5:27 AM trying to finish some stupid History movie review, and i just end up wasting a good 8 hours browsing Urban Dictionary and talking to myself. From now on im gona accept that im incapable of doing homework and use my time on other things such as homework or msn, or URBAN DICTIONARY.

      * e.g.,  ... procrastination. 


     [ "procrastination" ]

    3: Thats procastination for ya.

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: I think ill write this definition later

      * e.g.,  ... dude... thats the best definition for procrastination ever. 

     [ "procrastination" ]

    1: If you are on urbandictionary.com, you probably are already doing this. It means you are putting something off until the last possible second (by doing pointless things in most people's cases).

      * e.g.,  ... He is awesome at procrastination: the day before a big project was due, he watched 6 t.v. shows, took a really long shower (a.k.a. a procrastishower), and didn't start his project until 3 a.m. 

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