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noun - uncountable

• low-quality marijuana.

  All he sells is reggs.

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  Last edited on Oct 14 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 14 2011.

noun

• a gift received from someone, and then given as a gift to someone else. Reasons vary and include not liking the gift (and hence not wanting to keep it for one's self,) or using it as a last-minute gift after forgetting to buy a gift.

  Looks like this will be a regift.

  Last edited on Dec 16 2010. Submitted by Joshua S. from Newport, KY 41071, USA on Jan 31 2003.

verb - transitive

• to give someone a gift that was previously received as a gift from a different person.

                                                                                                                      
  
  Citation from "Classy Christmas, Part 2", The Office (TV, 2010), Season 7 Episode 11 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Dec 16 2010. Submitted by Joshua S. from Newport, KY 41071, USA on Jan 31 2003.

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.

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  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.