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pull a Homer

verb

Etymology

From pull (“to copy or emulate the actions associated with”). Coined in the Simpsons episode "Homer Defined", after the regular character Homer who stops a nuclear meltdown via eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

Definitions

  1. To succeed despite idiocy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pull a Homer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA