Leap Year

Word LEAP YEAR
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(n.) A year where Febuary has 29 days. This is because the earth actually takes 365.24 days to orbit the sun completely. This figure is rounded to 365.25, so after four years, we have to add an extra day. However, since it is actually a little less than a whole day, every 100 years we will be a day ahead. There are 10 leap years in 100 years, and hence, we must miss one of these years. This was last done in 1900, and shall next be done in 2100, hence, it is unlikely many of us will live to see the next one, unless this definitions is still here (along with urbandictionary of course!) in many years' time. Urban Dictionary

If the days in a year were personified, Febuary 29th would be a hipster. Existing in each year is too mainstream for this day, and so it only shows itself every 4 years. Urban Dictionary

The level of drunkenness that you're only dumb enough to achieve every four years or so. Utterly shattered. A leap year drunk usually results in an epic story of debauchery that can only be told by the friends of the victim, or, often, total strangers you you gave your phone number to. Urban Dictionary

That time of the month, when that time of the month is supposed to happen, but is delayed. This is due to the fact the leap year affected the menstrual cycle. This can sometimes cause a woman to believe that she is pregnant. When in fact, it is simply the menstrual leap year at work. Urban Dictionary

The condition by which one experiences significant penile enhancement and unexpected erectial direction on a quadrennial basis. Typically experienced on the 29th of February commonly referred to as the "leap year." Urban Dictionary

A period of 366 days (The extra day being added to February), that comes every 4 regular years. Urban Dictionary

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The word "leap-year" in example sentences

You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the twenty-ninth of February; ❋ John (2008)

Of course, Tim being a leap-year baby (he was born 29th February 1952), this makes perfect sense. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Going to church on Sunday does a lot more to introduce one to one's neighbors than going to a caucus site each leap-year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The hospital operator saw a 0.1% year-over-year decline in same-hospital paying and total admissions in the latest quarter, when adjusting for last year's leap-year effect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The hospital chain Tenet Healthcare Corp. said earlier this week that its number of admissions of patients with private health coverage declined 2% in the first quarter from a year earlier, while outpatient visits of insured patients slipped 0.4%, when adjusted for last year's leap-year effect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the more I thought about it, to be an older “leap-year day” baby you would have to be at least 108 years old, a very small percentage of the population and also be born on the 29th of February 1900. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Various legends purport to explain the ladies 'choice leap-year tradition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Well before "Li'l Abner" cartoonist Al Capp morphed the conceit into Sadie Hawkins Day, the symbol of ladies 'leap-year frolics was the butterfly net used to capture one's man. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Says one exec: "" They can have the record for the biggest matinee gross on a non-holiday leap-year weekend. '' ❋ Unknown (2008)

Grandmarina announced to the king and queen that in future there would be eight quarter-days in every year, except in leap-year, when there would be ten. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I myself wear a watch that cost about $200 - it's solor powered, analog, has a nice band and keeps great time and includes a perpetual calendar (that even handles leap-year right.) ❋ Unknown (2004)

Might have none to find their corpusses until next leap-year. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

In-door life never suited him at all, nor too much of hard learning, although his capacity was such that he took more advancement in an hour than the thick heads of young Flamborough made in a whole leap-year of Sundays. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

I have been calling to Patrick to look in his almanac for the day of the month; I did not know but it might be leap-year. ❋ Unknown (2003)

1) Every year [divisible] by four is a leap year (1996,2000, 2004); 2) Unless it is also divisible by 100 (1700, 1800, 1900, [2100]). 3) However, if a year is divisible by 4, 100 and 400, it is a leap year (1600, 2000, [2400]) ❋ Kung-Fu Jesus (2004)

Date: [Febuary 29th] 2016 - leap year [Feb 28th]: hey, 29th, havent seen you in a while [Feb] 29th: yea, I know. 2015 was like soooooo last year... ❋ Xtra Happy (2016)

[Alissa]: On Friday I went out with [Melissa] and got REALLY drunk ... [I mean like] leap year drunk. She can tell you about it better than I can, though. ❋ Spamania (2007)

Natalie: [Ermahgerd], [my period is late]. I must be prego! Seanequa: No, Natalie, you are not prego. It is simply a result of the [menstrual cycle leap year]. ❋ Sand-nigger Jesus (2012)

[Carol]: "John was so big last night." [Jen]: "Is this a [leap year]??" Carol: "Oh my god, maybe it was leap year dick syndrome!" ❋ Lyds Sufferer (2011)

"This [year] is a [leap year]" ❋ 27Koolkat (2022)

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