"Pullin' a Palin" Now In The Urban Dictionary

Sarah Palin continues to be a dynamic cultural figure as much as a political one. The Alaska Governor, who announced her impending resignation from office last week, is now the inspiration for a new piece of slang. The phrase, "Pullin' a Palin," is currently defined by urbandictionary.com as:

1. Quitting when the going gets tough; abandoning the responsibility entrusted to you by your neighbors for book advances and to make money on the lecture circuit.

2. Bizarre move that will damn ambitions for higher office.

"I bet when people saw Jade they were convinced that David Caruso was pullin' a Palin."

The entry was filed by the user "No One Likes a Quitter" on Wednesday and actually represents the second Palin-related phrase on the site. "Pull a Palin," which was entered after the 2008 vice presidential debate, is defined by Urban Dictionary as: "To avoid answering questions directly because you don't know the answer, or you don't want the person to [whom you are] talking to knowing the real answer, and talking about another subject you do know something about, or something to flatter or distract the other person, instead."

This type of small-bore snark is good fodder for the partisans. For sober-minded Palin supporters, the worry has to be that the soon-to-be-former governor will be permanently defined as the butt of the political joke.

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Comments

[firstrax]

02:01 AM on 07/10/2009

Sarah Palin is part of God's plan to kill the republican party.

[lippp]

01:58 AM on 07/10/2009

My guess is "Pullin' a Palin" was first used by just about all the red blooded male classmates of Bristol. Of course if there is an Urban Thesaurus, it would be synonymous with "Nallin' a Palin".

[LemonMeringue]

01:36 AM on 07/10/2009

To me her name is synonymous with extreme incompeten­ce coupled with extreme overconfid­ence.

[sunnybunny]

11:20 AM on 07/10/2009

That's what I thought it would mean : pursuing a job with extreme enthusiasm that you are completely unqualifie­d for

[Aylah95]

05:09 PM on 07/12/2009

The 'arrogantl­y ignorant' I've always called them. The most dangerous lot of people on the planet.

[imsosure]

01:29 AM on 07/10/2009

So pulling a Palin, now just how would she explain that I wonder, blame it on the media maybe? I'tll be such a better world once she loses again, She a delusional­, self indulgent wannabe.

[Tom Joad]

12:49 AM on 07/10/2009

'palindron­e': a long, rambling, incoherent sililoquy; the propensity for one to speak for many minutes about virtually nothing when a single sentence or simple 'yes' or 'no' would suffice.

'Sillyloqu­y': any words emanating from the former governor of Alaksa's mouth.

[dutch163]

10:40 AM on 07/10/2009

love it!!

[mcarlsonus]

12:16 AM on 07/10/2009

Palin "plutoed" herself (another term from the "Urban Dictionary­" - and the American Dialect Society's, "Word of the Year" winner for 2006!)

[Quilter]

12:15 AM on 07/10/2009

"Pullin' a Palin" makes me think of turkey necks.

[water57]

11:31 PM on 07/09/2009

Look pullin a Palin simply mean, anyone like Palin who enjoys the hobby of knitting without using yarn and needles.

[Taz2]

10:27 PM on 07/09/2009

Oh keep it simple

Pullin a Palin = Quitting, period.

[PDinCA]

03:24 AM on 07/10/2009

Nothing is ever that simple with Sarah. You have to quit, and then deny you're a quitter.

[Emily Grae]

10:44 AM on 07/10/2009

Not just that, but you must deny you're quitting while actually giving the press announceme­nt that you're quitting.

[wherriott2]

08:37 PM on 07/09/2009

After "Pullin a Palin", I decided to go hiking on an "Appalachi­an Ta il ...I mean Trail". However I got busted so now I'm gonna do an "Ensign" to make it all go away.

[PKatherine]

11:18 PM on 07/09/2009

hahaha lol good one.

[ochaye]

08:08 PM on 07/09/2009

Would this new entry (and any future entries) replace those with "Quayle" as the root?

[SharpDressedMan]

07:57 PM on 07/09/2009

Nailin', takin', pullin'. What's next?

[BluebirdofUnhappiness]

09:39 PM on 07/09/2009

Quittin' ...oh wait.

[patrickmcdougal]

11:46 PM on 07/09/2009

Sarah Ballin'

[MisterHands]

07:52 PM on 07/09/2009

I've "Taken' a Palin", but never tried "Pulln' a Palin"

[Tom Joad]

12:54 AM on 07/10/2009

I think if we're honest, we will all admit to 'pullin our palin' from time to time...and sometimes even having our palin pulled for us...just sayin'...

[Tom Joad]

01:16 AM on 07/10/2009

...MisterH­ands!

[Vyvjala]

07:33 PM on 07/09/2009

Pull'n a palin, another rough day at the orfice....­..........­...

[SharpDressedMan]

07:32 PM on 07/09/2009

Tomorrow her lawyer will send a cease and decease letter to the internet.

[roshni]

09:06 PM on 07/09/2009

yup yup, the entire internet is to be investigat­ed by the National Department of Law.

[RachelMc]

12:15 AM on 07/10/2009

haha

[biged242]

11:26 PM on 07/09/2009

That's a good one.