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      [Verb]  | "veto" 


      1: to refuse to admit or approve : prohibit; also : to refuse assent to (a legislative bill) so as to prevent enactment or cause reconsideration


      Origin: 1706 ;

      [Noun]  | "pocket veto" 


      1: an indirect veto of a legislative bill by an executive through retention of the bill unsigned until after adjournment of the legislature


      Origin: 1842 ;

      [Verb]  | "vetoing" 


      1: to reject by or as if by a vote;


        * e.g., " ... my husband quickly vetoed my suggestion that we adopt the stray dog "





      [Verb]  | "veto" 


      1: to reject by or as if by a vote;


        * e.g., " ... my husband quickly vetoed my suggestion that we adopt the stray dog "





       [ "veto" ]

      1: To summarily dismiss a suggestion of something to do/eat/listen to/etc. Ususally used when the suggestion is distateful to the vetoer.

        * e.g.,  ... Yeah, I'm going to have to veto the Britney Spears. 

       [ "veto" ]

      1: a harsh way to say NO or a way to reject harshly by implementing NO

        * e.g.,  ... guy1: hey check out that gurl son 

       [ "Veto" ]

      1: when your friends are refusing to full send and go out that night so you call a veto. The veto means you HAVE to go out or be permanently shamed for the rest of your life, as well as lose your veto privileges in the future.

        * e.g.,  ... "yeah I got vetoed last night and blacked out" "showed up to class this morning drunk, it was a rough veto" "It was a veto, I had to go out" 

       [ "veto" ]

      1: An angry movement toward a thing or style of extra, bad or dirty. Usually, veto, is used by word take+ a, at before of it.

        * e.g.,  ... But I was and my victory about taking a veto form alone Tim, that: That much he,s been kept in silence, I kissed him as fast as he opened his door, and he had become happy...Ooh! I was very satisfied one next!!! 

       [ "Veto" ]

      1: To bring embarassment to, or show ones superiority of

        * e.g.,  ... after a burn, or physical embarassment of a friend one would say "Veto" 

       [ "stealth veto" ]

      1: The act of vetoing a map on Halo 3 when the timer is at zero seconds. Originally coined by Proto and Travitch.

        * e.g.,  ... Dude high ground sucks, stealth veto. 

       [ "boyfriend veto" ]

      1: When for once, the boyfriend gets the final say on a subject matter, as opposed to the girl getting whatever she wants.

        * e.g.,  ... Hey Suzy, I am going to have to boyfriend veto that idea, it's a bad one. 

       [ "Veto Bomb" ]

      1: In halo, where everyone on your team simontaniously vetoes a map with only one second left on the countdown in hopes to play a better map.

        * e.g.,  ... Alright guys, let's drop a Veto Bomb on these baby girls and try to get a better map. 

       [ "Vaginal Veto" ]

      1: When a man who is whipped asks his girlfriend/spouse if he can do something with his friends and she tells him no,that is a vaginal veto

        * e.g.,  ... Branden"Hey Bud,the boys and I are goin to the bar to watch the cavs, you in?" 

       [ "pocket veto" ]

      1:  A Presidential power where he vetos a bill by leaving it unsigned until congress is out of session.

        * e.g.,  ...  The president pocket vetoed the new bill, try again next session guys. 


       [ "pocket veto" ]

      2:  A Facebook and Myspace tactic where rather than rejecting a comment or friend request you leave it in limbo nither rejected nor accepted. less harsh than a real rejection it also means that the person cannot send another request as long as you have not decided on their original request.

        * e.g.,  ...  Who the hell is this guy? I wont even qualify it with a rejection, pocket veto his ass. 

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