(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese goddess of the dawn, joy and of springtime.

A distorted room designed to be viewed through a pinhole, using a trick of perspective to create an optical illusion so that people standing in opposite corners appear to be of very different sizes.

plural of Ames room

(rhetorical question) Said by someone who, upon the realization that they were kidding themselves, wishes to start thinking in a more sensible, reasonable way.

Indicates that the speaker is a carrier of the human immunodeficiency virus.

Asked to authority, to ascertain if one is being arrested.

(philosophy) I am able to think, therefore I exist. A philosophical proof of existence based on the fact that someone capable of any form of thought necessarily exists.

Alternative form of I'm ... year(s) old

Alternative form of I'm twenty years old

Alternative form of I'm rubber, you're glue