Pronunciation [buhd fak-ter]
Noun
The gross exaggeration or embellishment of everyday events; can often times be complete fabrications.
> "I came home from work and drank a 12 pack"
> (After employing the Bud Factor, that 12 pack was suddenly only 3 beers)

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学英语单词
aggregative methods
Akkeshi-wan
alamodome
ambiances
answering
appened
archgravity dam
asconoid
asio flammeus flammeus
at the count of
baccated
backet
behavioural theory
belk
berlina
Bhuttewala
boundary marker beacon
bridge clearance
Carex chinganensis
chordopexy
circumcinct
clandestine dealing
clerk typist
colloidal theory
complementarymorpheme
comprehendless
conservative confidence intervals
cooling champ
counter current regeneration
deaf and dumb alphabet
deturbations
divaricator
dudism
efficiency tracing
electronic automatic compensator
erythrocarpa
etalons
evitating
farding-bags
felsoandesite
function input section
gamma leakage spectrum
geekette
glandulae incisiva
hercynian fold belt
honyucitrin
hydronium ion
hyperpresbyopia
in bad state of repair
in futuro
inhere in
inter-change
Joseph Heller
karren
Kogoni
Labrador-Ungava Peninsula
lefthander
lower stack limit
lubricating oil fine filter
magnetic blow-out spark gap
magnetic-flux leakage
manual data input
Maywood
Michelia cavaleriei
mis audit
moment of distribution
monotown
mould stability
muscle confusion
Ngadda, R.
non interest bearing notes
offcuts
overreaches
parameter address error
percentage mortality
pigeon grape
plate jiggering machine
private landscape
quartz optical phonon maser
rate of income on investment
rears its head
remote control (operation)
repugned
resorcinol diethyl ether
restored in force
saturation function
sealed-unit
Semra
set your heart on
shining amazon
skid resisting
skunklike
spectrographies
sub-band coding
superficial planter metatarsal arteries
teruo
tobacco hornworms
tokenisations
tominorie
Trujillo, Pta.
Truth or Consequences
warehouse bond