defenestrate

/dɪfˈɛnɪstɹˌeɪt/

[verb]

to defenestrate

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

*** throw (someone) out of a window

to force a person of authority or power to step down from their position

Examples

1. Defenestrate means to throw out the window.

2. Someone also said "You shouldn't say 'throw out the window,' you should say 'defenestrate.'"

3. Defenestrate has been the word that everyone calls out to be like, oh, no one's ever said this word before.

4. The first one occured in 1419 and resulted in the deaths of seven people, the second one, the one we’re concerned with now, resulted in the deaths of no people, because all four of the defenestrated landed in a pile of manure.