Definitions
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- noun law, satire, South Park A satirical term for any legal strategy or
propaganda strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience withnonsensical arguments, as a way of confusing the audience and drowning out legitimate opposing arguments.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's like hearing some actually trying to use the '' Chewbacca Defense '' from South Park … Well, if you insist …
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It is, in other words, the "Chewbacca Defense," in which someone asserts his claim by saying something so patently nonsensical that the listener's brain shuts down completely.
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The Ebay Defense is only slightly more valid than the Chewbacca Defense.
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So that was Lindsay Graham's version of the Chewbacca Defense?
Archive 2007-09-30 Sinfonian 2007
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So that was Lindsay Graham's version of the Chewbacca Defense?
Macroeconomics, by Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Sinfonian 2007
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Kell: Point of information: what is the Chewbacca Defense?
Student Who Wrote Woman-Hating Email Attended “Take Back The Night” Rally 2006
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Maybe he could try the Chewbacca Defense - it probably has as much chance of succeeding as anything else. minimalist
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Judging by this news story, written no doubt by an impartial paragon of journalistic integrity, those lacrosse players could mount the Chewbacca Defense and still win this case in the court of public opinion.
Student Who Wrote Woman-Hating Email Attended “Take Back The Night” Rally 2006
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Kell: Point of information: what is the Chewbacca Defense?
Student Who Wrote Woman-Hating Email Attended “Take Back The Night” Rally 2006
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Another version of this is the Chewbacca Defense - which is to throw so many irrelevant details into the discussion that is ceases to make any sense.
Eschaton 2003
ry commented on the word Chewbacca Defense
perhaps a useful phrase for political discourse circa 2016...
November 22, 2016