Harry was unsuccessful in his oral defenestration of the grape seeds, which were now sliding ungracefully down the inside of the half open passenger window of Sally's otherwise immaculately kempt vehicle, leaving a trail of the kind that remains visible until chemicals are used in the cleaning.
<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/defenestration" rel="nofollow">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/defenestration</a><p><i>The act of throwing something or someone out of a window. [from c. 17th c.]<p>(Britain) The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.<p>(computing, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.</i>
"In December 1840, Abraham Lincoln and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window in a political maneuver designed to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank."<p>Imagining something like this happening today is ... difficult, to say the least.
Reminds of a particular Family Guy episode, as it is the only time I have heard the term:<p>Dennis Miller: Now I don't want to go on a rant here, but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antietam. I mean, when a neo-conservative defenestrates, it's like Raskalnikov filibuster deoxymonohydroxinate.<p>Peter: What the hell does "rant" mean?
And here I thought maybe there was a new Defenestration in San Francisco<p><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/defenestration" rel="nofollow">https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/defenestration</a>
There’s a generation of nerds who learned this word from the glossary of the Apple ][ manual which included, ”<i></i>defenestration<i></i>: The act of throwing something or someone out of a window.“
I was in my kid's secondary school student support office one morning where one student was telling his friend about the time his dad threw him through a window. It wasn't a big, heavy conversation, just a recounting of it as something that was a bit of a novelty.<p>So I pipe up and say, "Hey, there's even a word for that!" which in a strange way left them somewhat pleased.
When I was in high school, we used to refer jokingly to "defenstration of an ecdysiast." I don't remember where we got it from, but it usually was brought up in connection to the highly exaggerated and dramatic way teens tend to tell a lengthy story about their day as if it was the most interesting story ever.
Tom Francis has been working on a Defenestration Trilogy. Video games that feature defenestration.<p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34631927" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34631927</a>
One of the greatest things on YouTube.<p>Defenestration: The Movie<p>Seven minutes of very short clips from Hollywood movies involving defenestration.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_tV49vsIXc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_tV49vsIXc</a>
I wonder if that happened like in a violent fashion like when someone is tossed out of a bar by a bouncer or did it happen like in the cartoons when a prisoner walks slowly over a board into the sea from a pirate ship.
to me defenestration is always sounded like a process that removes intestines but every time I mention it to someone who knows German they say fenster means window