English Explanatory Dictionary

underpants gnome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who makes incomplete plans with missing steps; someone who plans unsuccessfully.
  2. A plan with missing steps; an incomplete plan.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

underpants gnome underpants gnomes

Etymology

Named for the Underpants Gnomes, characters in the South Park episode “Gnomes” (1998) who stole underpants from children as part of a plan to make a profit, but their plan lacked the means by which that profit was to be made.

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