vicissitude \vih-SIS-ih-tood; -tyood\, noun:
- Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
- Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
- A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).
Urban Word of the Day
December 02, 2007: chuck a sickiehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chuck+a+sickie&defid=2389249
- Used in Australia. Means to take a day off sick from work when you are fine.
Trivia
What unusual use did Colorado Avalanche defenseman Sylvain Lefebvre make of the Stanley Cup when his team won the coveted trophy in 1996?
- He used it as a baptismal fount for his newborn daughter.
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