The opposite of a 'statement win' in sports: a defeat so bad it proves how bad a team really is, especially a team previously thought to be not so bad.
by Doctorjay December 10, 2014
To make a statement with no evidence to backup your claim and then ignore requests for evidence until it goes away. Also allows an option if caught out, to pretend you never said it. If evidence is produced, ignore it until it goes away.
(Man 1) Global warming is cased by dolphins. (Man 2) That sounds like a trump statement... what proof do you have? (Man 1) What are you talking about? (Man 2) You just said global warming is caused by dolphins? (Man 1) I never said that. I would never say that.
by Just another pleb March 13, 2017
A statement said in the form of a question.
For instance: "You're retarded" would be said like "You're retarded?".
For instance: "You're retarded" would be said like "You're retarded?".
Person 1: I was so surprised when I found out she was actually a guy.
Person 2: You're retarded? She had a beard, and a boner the whole time.
Question-Statement
Person 2: You're retarded? She had a beard, and a boner the whole time.
Question-Statement
by Phreddyddy August 19, 2008
Like a rhetorical question, a rhetorical statement is one that doesn't need to be commented on. When a person says something that isn't meant to start a conversation.
Bob: My girlfriend just dumped me for a man-whore
Jack: Ha sucker! I told you this would happen!
Bob: You douche it was a fucking rhetorical statement!
Jack: Ha sucker! I told you this would happen!
Bob: You douche it was a fucking rhetorical statement!
by iIsChIlLiN May 31, 2009
Like a rhetorical question, a rhetorical statement is one that doesn't need to be commented on. When a person says something that isn't meant to start a conversation, but is usually just sarcastic.
Example of a Rhetorical Statement:
Simon: Yeah,define it for me.
Irene: You're kind of a sarcastic little shit, aren't you?
Simon: Yeah,define it for me.
Irene: You're kind of a sarcastic little shit, aren't you?
by Irene 1725 September 20, 2018
A leading statement is similar to a leading question in that it makes an open ended or attention grabbing statement to influence a person to think a certain way or do something. A common use of this is in article or thumbnail clickbait, where a leading statement is used to imply something else.
by Nutmeg??? November 9, 2018
A string of platitudes serving as a bureaucratically acceptable substitute for a direction for effort.
The vision statement, "children with disabilities and their families have access to a coordinated system of mental health services in order to improve educational and social outcomes," suffers from a complete lack of actual measurement of whether the effort will ever accomplish any favorable outcome, or indeed any outcome at all beyond establishing (and funding) a “system” and giving some people “access” to it.
by Ignatius Donnelly September 28, 2005