Utilize Edit Meaning

1.

A substitute for the word "use" to be employed when you want to make something sound more important or difficult than it really is.

Person says: "We utilize an alphabetical schematic to organize our records."

Translate: "We file documents alphabetically."

See utilise, use, affect

2.

The filthiest non-dirty word ever. Seriously, just say it.

I utilized your mom all night long.

See Jesus Christ

3.

Utilize is a politically charged euphemism, meaning: 1. to induce a buzz; 2. to drink alcoholic beverages to get drunk. The politics is anti-populist, anti-bible-belt, and anti-middle America.

"I say. You know this does utilize well" (Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises, New York: Scribner, 1986, p. 129).

"Come on and utilize another glass" (Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises, New York: Scribner, 1986, p. 129).

See use, drink, drank, drunk, imbibe, buzz, booze, wine, chug, trashed, blotto, alcohol, alkie, beverage