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noun

• "rehabilitation".

                                     
  
                                                                                                                                                       
  
  Citation from "Chapter 13", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 7 (2010) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

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  Last edited on Jan 13 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 13 2012.

adjective

• politically far-right, and exhibiting Nazi-like tendencies such as fascism and white nationalism.

  He subscribes to a few reich-wing newsletters.

  • See more words with the same meaning: politics, government (related to).

  Last edited on Dec 03 2018. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 03 2018.

• pejorative replacement for "right-wing".

  I'm not coming to Thanksgiving dinner if your reich-wing brother is going to be there.

  He watches reich-wing media outlets like Fox News.

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  Last edited on Dec 03 2018. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 03 2018.

origin

• From "reich", a reference to Nazi Germany's "Third Reich", and "wing", as in "right-wing".
  
  A play on "right-wing".

  Last edited on Dec 03 2018. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 03 2018.

verb

• to "invent" a solution to a problem that has already been solved, or to implement yet another solution to a solved problem. While the term is usually used pejoratively, it is recognized that many tools have evolved over the years. (Cars don't have stone wheels, for example.)

  Management has a serious case of NIH syndrome, so we do a lot of reinventing the wheel.

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  Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.

noun

• a disliked person.

  Why are you hanging out with that reject?

  • See more words with the same meaning: uncool person, jerk, asshole (general insults - list of).

  Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

verb - transitive

• to adjust.

  I think if we re-jiggered the antenna then we'd get a better signal.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to adjust.

  Last edited on Aug 23 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.