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  • Tinaundefined Offline
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    an occasion when someone in authority changes the borders of an area in order to increase the number of people within that area who will vote for a particular party or person:

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      The manipulation of an electoral constituencys boundaries so as to favor one party or class.

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        Moving the [books]/notebooks of other students into different desks to [influence] where they sit during class. Used for political [structure].

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          [Splitting] the voting population in favor of the group in power [by any means] necessary, such as specifically [targeted] advertising, redrawing district lines, teaching specific politics in schools, or violence.

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            In the context of Ireland, esp. in the time of establishing its [independence] on Britain, gerrymandering was used to describe the practice of some individuals going to the [polls] several times at different places, so that the party ([Fianna] Fáil in this case) was sure to win the elections.

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              [Doing nothing] [productive], [jerking off]

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                Pleasuring a woman with a regenerating [salamander] of the [genus] Salamandrina. It is a common practice to [sedate] the salamander before insertion due to several documented cases of the salamander crawling up, biting, or making a home within the female genitalia.

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                  A great [word to] use around young people who dont know what it means; can [fill in] for [all sorts of] other words.

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                    A term [old teachers] use to tell [you shut up] and [sit down]

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