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-->The Monado - a divine sword capable of disturbing the very fabric of existance.

* ''Series/{{Barry'': As part of the montage of Barry's classmates giving ill-advised tributes to Ryan during his memorial, Natalie begins a eulogy by citing the definition of 'death' from Webster's Dictionary.

* ''LightNovel/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'' anime adaptation offers "dictionary entry" cards each episode.

An automotive sport that takes place on an open field or parking lot and requires drivers to skillfully maneuver their cars around a series of ones, slaloms, 180 degree turns, 360 degree turns, figure eight turns or other obstacles using extreme acceleration, braking, and drifting.\\\

* Creator/KenBlock's very first Gymkhana video presented this over the screen before Ken first shot off on a souped-up Subaru:

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': In [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content-menu/stories/233-test-tube-babies Test Tube Babies]]:\\

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': In [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content-menu/stories/233-test-tube-babies Test Tube Babies]]:
--> ‘test’: n., an examination or evaluation
--> ‘tube’: n., slang term for television or video-related imagery
--> ‘babies’: n., colloquially, neophytes or tyros

* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': The Pyramid of Light movie starts with giving the definition of "abridged", then of Yu-Gi-Oh!.

* In ''Series/TheOffice'', Michael starts off his speech with, "Webster's Dictionary defines 'wedding' as 'the fusing of two metals with a hot torch.'" He's clearly mistaken the definition of "welding" for "wedding."

Starting a speech with a dictionary definition is widely considered to be a lame way to format an introduction. It's a stock gag for a speech to start in this way to signal that it's low-effort or foolish. A common variant is to have the speaker define a similar but completely different word by mistake.

** Joe Frazier starts out his speech to give Homer a fake award with, ""Webster's Dictionary defines 'excellence' as 'the quality or condition of being excellent.' And now the winner of the first annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence."

* ''Series/ParksAnRecreation'': Leslie starts to make a speech like this but runs out of time: "At first glance, it may seem as though Ron Swanson and I have nothing in common, but Webster's dictionary defines 'friend'--"

* Creator/WeirdAlYankovic's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc music video]] for the song "Word Crimes" is filled with dictionary imagery. Appropriate because it is all about common cases of poor spelling and grammatical mistakes in emails.

->''Cryptid, noun'':

* The music video of the Music/{{Vocaloid}} song "Gift from the Princess Who Brought Sleep", from the "Seven Deadly Sins" sub-series of Music/{{mothy}}'s ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'' series, opens with an entry from an English-to-Japanese dictionary defining the word "gift", which is also the GratuitousEnglish {{Arc Word|s}} of the song. [[spoiler:Or so it seems. About halfway through the video, the dictionary entry is shown again, only to be replaced with a ''German''-to-Japanese dictionary entry -- and in German, "Gift" means "poison".]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xuRbkXcZ8 The trailer for the 3DS remake]] for ''Videogame/{{Xenoblade}}''.

* The teaser trailer for Disney's ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' has the word "anthropomorphic" appear in large Courier typeface, which the red fox character pushes away. The narrator defines it as "a big, fancy word that means they walk around on two feet, they do not go to work nude ..." as key words from the definition appear on screen in the same type face. The definition never appears in its entirety as an actual dictionary entry though.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP71K87Hp5Y first teaser]] for the music video of Music/{{BTS}}'s "FAKE LOVE" ([[MissingTrailerScene which contains scenes only made for the teaser itself]]) opens with the definition of "Magic Shop" (also one of the songs from the album "FAKE LOVE" comes from, ''LOVE YOURSELF: Tear''), introducing [[BeneathTheMask the themes]] of the album as well as the themes [[WhatDoTheyFearEpisode of the story of the music video]] within this part of the ''Music/{{BU}}'' series:

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP71K87Hp5Y first teaser]] for the music video of Music/{{BTS}}'s "FAKE LOVE" ([[MissingTrailerScene which contains scenes only made for the teaser itself]]) opens with the following text, introducing [[BeneathTheMask the themes]] [[WhatDoTheyFearEpisode of the story]] within this part of the ''Music/{{BU}}'' series: