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SAABATH
Swedish car wash.   [Indie]

SADDO
See twerp  [Anon]

SAINT
A dead sinner revised and edited.   [Ambrose Bierce]

SALVOS
The Salvation Army.   [Strine]

SARCHASM:
The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the reader who doesn't get it. [Anon]

SATIRIST
One who describes things exactly as they are. See Romantic. [Crisp]

SAW
A trite popular saying, or proverb, so called because it makes its way into a wooden head.   [Ambrose Bierce]

SCARE-DO
Over the top hair style.   [Queen's]

SCHIZONOMIA
cancer of the pseudonym. [Richard Bachman]

SCIENCE
[1] Trained and organised common sense.   [Aldous Huxley]
[2] The art of systematic over-simplification.   [Karl Popper]
[3] Ninety per cent boredom.   [Lord Winston]

SCOREGASM
Sex with a competitive partner  [Anon]

SCREEN
Whut to shut when its blak fly season  [Rural]

SCRIBBLER
A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.   [Ambrose Bierce]

SECRECY
The first essential in affairs of the state   [Cardinal Richelieu]

SECRETION
Hiding something   [Rural]

SECRET
Something you tell to one person at a time.   [Anon]

SEIZURE
A Roman Emperor  [Rural]

SELF-DENIAL
The effect of prudence on rascality.   [G.B.Shaw]

SELF-ESTEEM
An erroneous appraisement.   [Ambrose Bierce]

SELF-EVIDENT
Evident to one's self and to nobody else.   [Ambrose Bierce]

SELFISH
Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.   [Ambrose Bierce]

SELF-SACRIFICE
A means of sacrificing other people without blushing.   [G.B.Shaw]

SEMANTICS:
Pranks conducted by young men studying for the priesthood, such as gluing the pages of the priest's prayer book together just before vespers. [Anon]

SEX

[1] Not the only thing on Earth   [Ann Widdecombe]
[2] One of nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant. [Henry Miller]

SHEENY
Peddler or street vendor, usually of used articles or scrap; "If you don't behave yourself, we'll sell ya to the sheeny."  [Coal-Speak]

AUTOMATIC SHIFT
When the driver moves closer to his girlfriend.  [Anon]

SHIN
Device for finding furniture in the dark.  [Palo Alto]

SHYNESS
Egotism out of its depth.   [Penelope Keith]

SILENCE
[1] The most perfect expression of scorn.   [G.B.Shaw]

[2] The unbearable repartee [Chesterton]

SITCOM
What yuppies turn into when they have children: Single Income, Two Children,
Oppressive Mortgage.  [Anon]

SLAGIATT
Seemed like a good idea at the time - ideal trial plea, when "Guilty" and "Not Guilty" are just too subjective.   [Anon]

FREUDIAN SLIP
When you say one thing and mean your mother.   [Anon]

SLOTHARIO
A man who aims to attract women through slow-witted ignorance.   [Indie]

SMITHAREEN
A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain.   [Ambrose Bierce]

SMOKE-O
A break from work to indulge in chit-chat and a cigarette.   [Strine]

SNARKITIS
An uncontrollable tendency to be picky, severe cases may include whining and schadenfreude. [HUD]

SNERT
Obnoxious person who offends in an online chat room. (sexually nerdish expressively recidivistic troll).   [Palo Alto]

SNOREGASM
Sex without waking  [Anon]

SNOWMINE
Potentially dangerous object hidden by snow on the trail.   [MTBike]

SOARGASM
Sex in a glider  [Anon]

SOBER
A condition in which it is almost impossible to fall in love.  [Anon]

SOCIALISM
The intention to raise suffering to a higher level. [Mailer]

SOFTWARE
Them dang plastik forks and knifs  [Rural]

SOLITUDE
The most companionable companion.   [Henry Thoreau]

SORCERY
The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence   [Ambrose Bierce]

SOREGASM
Too much sex  [Anon]

SPAMOFLAGE
Bulk email messages delivered from generic email addresses with innocuous subject headers in order to confound filtering programs and spam-haters.   [Palo Alto]

SPORT
Hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for rules and sadistic pleasure in violence ... War minus the shooting.   [George Orwell]

SPUNK
Good looking person (of either sex).   [Strine]

SPUSH
Indiscriminate, spamlike applications of push-media technology.   [Palo Alto]

MEDICAL STAFF
A doctor's cane  [Rural]

STATESMAN
[1] A person with whose politics you agree.   [Lloyd George]
[2] A politician who places himself at the service of the nation.   [Georges Pompidou]
[3] A dead politician. [John Major]

STICKYBEAK
Nosey person.   [Strine]

STOREGASM
Sex at the supermarket  [Anon]

STRAIGHT LINE
Shortest distance between two jokes.  [Anon]

STRATEGY
Knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. See Tactics [Savielly Tartakower 1887-1956]

STREWTH
Exclamation expressing surprise. From 'God's truth'.   [Strine]

SUBSTITIOUS
Believing in things which are true, but no-one else believes (eg. 'It'll get better if you don't pick at it')   [Terry Pratchett]

SUBVERTISEMENT
Using the techniques of Madison Square to promote an anti-consumerism message. [Palo Alto]

SUCCESS
[1] The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.   [Ambrose Bierce]
[2] Going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. [Sir Winston Churchill]

SUPERMODEL
Model.  [Kington]

SUPERSTITION
The religion of feeble minds.   [Edmund Burke]

SWASHBUNGLER
Would-be Romeo, who contrives to bore Juliet off her feet, with enthusiastic but futile attempts to impress. [Bonawitz]

SYNTHESPIAN
A digitally created character. Also called vactor (virtual actor).  [Palo Alto]

SYCOPHANT
One who approaches Greatness on his belly.   [Ambrose Bierce]

SYRUP
Hair piece (Syrup of Fig = Wig).   [Rhyming]

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