A person who does not know the material they are expected to instruct.
"Mr. Johnson doesn't know anything about history even though he is the history teacher."

"I know he pulled a real Norm Johnson."
by Shamrock Shrew May 21, 2009
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A phrase that a person uses to describe an event that is just a normal occurrence in his or her everyday life.
Marissa-- "OH MY GOSH! I published five journal articles, got a job at Yale, shook hands with the President, and sung a duet with Justin Bieber!"

Jon (shaking his head)-- "You got to sing with Justin? Norm life."
by J Beebs December 28, 2013
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normal, usual, ordinary, a term used by patricians and restricted to the plebeian society
Guy 1: Dude did you play a pb?
Guy 2: Nah, it was a norm carver
Guy 1: I bet you got owned
Guy 2: Yeah my team sucked
by Wenku January 17, 2013
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is the instigating within the social group of a society disunity and division on all issues such as race, gender, politics, religion and s3xual orientation.
the destabilizing of American society by instilling racial hate and conflict between the Black and White communities is a marxian-norm.
by Baron Neville June 1, 2017
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The ultimate fate of any meme that achieves total hegemony. With no countermeme to struggle against, the original meme fades away due to disuse. For example, if smoking were actually stamped out, with no smokers left, smoking would have room to eventually rise again since the antismoking meme would have been forgotten.
The urge to ban landmines underwent normative burnout one hundred years after all countries had disposed of their last mine stockpiles, causing some nations to begin experimenting with buried antipersonnel explosives fifty years thereafter. It was an idea old enough to seem new.
by Paul Fallavollita December 4, 2006
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ya know, like, waxin' the candle, choking the chicken, chillin' the charlie. THE NORM!
Yeah, so yesterday, I was totally "Doin' The Norm" as my parents walked in and were like, "OH DEAR, what are you doing to yourself?" And in a rush, I agreed with my body and replied, "DOIN' THE NORM!!"
by Brendan / Gordon December 12, 2006
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is a term used to describe certain evasive consistent symmetry attributes which are subversively planted within the subconsciousness of the social group. With the sole purpose of instilling within society a preconditioned cognitive representation in relation with how the social group response either enthusiastically or with indifference to specific words or phrases in relation to any given political, social or even religious subject. Its intended function is to simulate a reaction very much like that of Metadata or Meta Tags or (Metadata) which are essentially designed to create or to recognise certain keywords pertaining to any given document or information etc.
Mike and John respond with enthusiasm to certa9n aspects of a speech at a convention whereby the language used, is in line or in accordance with what is socially perceived as the norm, and in contrast respond with disinterest to those portions of the speech, which use language that deviates away from what can be categorized as outside the box. There responding entirely upon how they have been in a social context programmed to respond instinctively to a certain language. Instead of assessing the viability of any given subject based on its merits and substance, a perspective which is intuitive-norm.
by Baron Neville July 4, 2017
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