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rebirthing en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. (qualifier:spirituality, uncountable, usually) Rebirth.
2. (Internet, uncountable, usually) An act of resetting a player character's level to its initial value (i.e., 1) while retaining equipment and/or some skills (a feature that allows a player to try out different classes or builds).
3. (New-Age, uncountable, usually) The practice of simulating the birth process by wrapping a child tightly in blankets from which it must struggle to escape, as an intended treatment for attachment disorder.
4. (Australia, slang, uncountable, usually) The practice of transferring identifying parts of a wrecked car (registration plates, compliance plate, etc.) onto a stolen car of the same make and model, allowing the stolen car to be sold with the identity of the wreck.
   • 2004, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004 Year Book Australia, Number 86, page 325, Other investigations include South-East Asian organised crime, money laundering and tax fraud on the Commonwealth, vehicle rebirthing and identity fraud.
   • They are also involved in cannabis dealing, vehicle theft, car rebirthing, currency counterfeiting and fraud. 2010, James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Gangland Australia, page 335:
   • New bosses were running things now – the hydro marijuana houses, the standover and the car rebirthing. 2010, Adam Shand, Big Shots: Inside Melbourne′s Gangland Wars, page 180:
5. (Internet, uncountable, usually) The role-playing practice of bodily crawling into and reemerging from a simulated vagina.

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unbirthing · identity theft