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Definition of sharpest pencil in the box, the

sharpest pencil in the box, the

noun

  • used only for comparison, to imply that a person is either insane or unintelligent.
    He's not the sharpest pencil in the box.

    Last edited on Jul 25 2010. Submitted by Leah P. on May 20 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'box':

Definitions include: from "box" meaning computer.
Definitions include: to have sex with a woman.
Definitions include: a portable box stereo system, typically furnished with radio, cassette player, and CD player.
Definitions include: an attractive female.
Definitions include: cunnilingus.
Definitions include: an unintelligent person.
Definitions include: a television.
Definitions include: vagina
Definitions include: a tanning bed.
Definitions include: a common woman who thinks she's somehow special, who is not worth a relationship.
Definitions include: a person who talks a lot.
Definitions include: vagina.
Definitions include: extremely unintelligent.
Definitions include: an unintelligent female.
Definitions include: buttocks.

Other terms relating to 'in':

Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: involving everyone or everything.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: no chance.
Definitions include: something easy.
Definitions include: at some time before the present.
Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
Definitions include: included.
Definitions include: clitoris.
Definitions include: to intrude.
Definitions include: See barge in.
Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury
Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."

Other terms relating to 'pencil':

Definitions include: to tentatively add something to one's schedule.
Definitions include: a person whose job consists of shuffling pieces of paper.
Definitions include: make one stronger.
Definitions include: Needing to defecate very soon.

Other terms relating to 'sharpest':

Definitions include: used only for comparison, to imply that a person is either insane or unintelligent.

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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