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Definition of see the light

see the light

verb

  • to realize a truth.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

    Citation from "Chapter 12", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 6 (2010) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
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    Last edited on Jan 12 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 12 2012.

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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: to approve a plan.
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.

Other terms relating to 'see':

Definitions include: acronym for "as far as I can see".
Definitions include: This was a nineteen century saying meaning going to see the world, especially adventures in the West.
Definitions include: to examine.
Definitions include: "I see".
Definitions include: "I see you pee", i.e. "I see you urinate".
Definitions include: a greeting.
Definitions include: A slang way of saying copying, or mimicking. Compare to: Copycat or follower. The homies want to be like me so much they copy everything I say and do, I call that [Monkey see Monkey do].
Definitions include: to date.
Definitions include: to defecate.
Definitions include: to go to the bathroom and urinate.
Definitions include: to urinate.
Definitions include: to understand another person's viewpoint.
Definitions include: sex.
Definitions include: to meet to fight someone; to want to fight someone; to fight; to agree to fight.
Definitions include: to become high.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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