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Definition of green lighting

green light

verb - transitive

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Other terms relating to 'to approve, give permission':

Definitions include: statement used to grant permission to a request.
Definitions include: permission to proceed.
Definitions include: to approve without debate or significant thought.
Definitions include: an approval.

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Other terms relating to 'green':

Definitions include: Brash Green Geese is a term used for a group of girls who are jealous that you're going out with a hot guy that they want to be with. They are loud, intimidating and jealous. Girl: "Babe, those girls keep giving me dirty looks when we're together."
Definitions include: to betray, to wrong.
Definitions include: in agreement.
Definitions include: diarrhea.
Definitions include: the act of racing to a bathroom while not defecating (specifically: diarrhea) in one's pants.
Definitions include: diarrhea.
Definitions include: diarrhea.
Definitions include: diarrhea.
Definitions include: diarrhea, particularly nasty diarrhea
Definitions include: good Marijuana
Definitions include: pertaining to environmentally-friendly jobs.
Definitions include: accepting of marijuana.
Definitions include: a person was is extremely jealous.
Definitions include: a room where performers wait until their performance.
Definitions include: marijuana.

Other terms relating to 'light':

Definitions include: slang for Bhangra (an Indian dance where the hands are raised in the air in a twisting motion).
Definitions include: to imitate competitors.
Definitions include: to generate more heated discussion than figurative illumination (i.e. insight.)
Definitions include: a girl who flashes her breasts.
Definitions include: erect nipples.
Definitions include: it's the end / death of something.
Definitions include: to punch someone until they are unconscious.
Definitions include: alive but brain-dead.
Definitions include: commonly used southern US term (Louisiana) means closed.
Definitions include: "eyes are open but the person isn't responding to stimuli."
Definitions include: time to go to bed.
Definitions include: to set flame to a smoking device, such as a cigarette or pipe.
Definitions include: acronym for "lights on but nobody home", an insulting notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.
Definitions include: "Natural Light" brand beer.
Definitions include: to turn off a source of light.

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