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Definition of touch wood
touch wood
- variant of "knock on wood", from New Zealand.
I barely made it out of there alive, touch wood!
Last edited on Jan 05 2013. Submitted by ybird from San Diego, CA, USA on May 11 2009.
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| Definitions include: a curse in which everything one interacts with turns out badly. | |
| Definitions include: to cease regular contact with someone. | |
| Definitions include: disconnected from reality. | |
| Definitions include: to shoot. | |
| Definitions include: of an uncertain outcome. | |
| Definitions include: to be in dire need to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to need to defecate very badly. | |
| Definitions include: jackass, jerk, etc. | |
| Definitions include: a man who prematurely ejaculates. | |
Other terms relating to 'wood': | |
| Definitions include: Used in the expression, "What, am I wood?" which means "Don't ignore me"; "Don't act like I have no feelings"; etc. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to get an erection. | |
| Definitions include: to knock on wood in order to avoid some bad thing happening that one was just speaking about. | |
| Definitions include: an erection upon waking. | |
| Definitions include: one's home neighborhood. | |
| Definitions include: past the worse part of a bad situation, in which things start to improve. | |
| Definitions include: to sleep. | |
| Definitions include: an erection. | |
| Definitions include: to strike someone over the head with a baseball bat or billy club. | |
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