Meaning of academic weapon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An exceptionally productive and diligent student.
   Internet, humorous
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see academic, weapon.

Examples

“I became a true academic weapon by drinking lots of coffee, one of the few socially acceptable study drugs.”

“In the space of only a year, the SEC has gone from becoming one of the most high-profile areas, featuring major political faces such as Joe Biden, Nicola Sturgeon, Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to a place which will feature university students being major academic weapons.”

“So, this term I have made a solemn vow to do better. While I wouldn't like to publicly brand myself as flaky, I'd say my ability to stick to any sort of resolution is among my greatest weaknesses. And yet, as of the end of Week Three, I can proudly call myself an unparalleled, unstoppable lecture-devotee/academic-weapon/child-genius (or rather, I attend a suitable number of lectures and complain about doing so frequently).”

“Especially those who travel for spring break, travel in groups and generally watch out for shady stuff. Spring breakers are often targets of theft and violence because they turn their brains off from being academic weapons. Please still be mindful of where you are and what you are doing.”

“Lehman Hall turns you into the academic weapon that you were always meant to be!”

“My bike ride to school every morning puts me in the correct mindset to become an academic weapon, and every other student deserves to come to school with that mindset as well.”

“The academic community either dismisses the work as absurdly out-of-date (always an excellent defence against new ideas), or resorts to the more traditional and more effective academic weapon of silence.”

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