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Friday, April 26, 2013

Five definitions from the Super Dictionary (with one bonus definition)

For anyone who hasn't heard of it before, the Super Dictionary is a book put out in 1978 that was, essentially, a dictionary for children illustrated with the characters of DC comics.  It's regained some of its former notoriety based on how absolutely bizarre some of the definitions are.

One of the most famous, for example, deals with Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor:

That's four tens!

However, that's not the strangest or most troubling definition in the book.  In fact, that one's rather tame.  Here's five definitions from the Super Dictionary that were shown to children.

TO CHILDREN.