Columbusing

top definition
when white people claim they have invented/discovered something that has been around for years, decades, even centuries.
miley cyrus is totally columbusing with this twerking sh-t.
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the art of discovering something that isn’t new
1492, columbus was columbusing the ‘new world’ one journal entry at a time
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when someone thinks they have invented something that’s been around for awhile or has already been discovered but tries to take first claim to inventing it.
hey man i just mixed sauce, meat, and noodles together and it’s amazing. you should try it. i’ve never seen it before.

bro your just columbusing.
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colub-msing (v.)- the act of taking over property which does not belong to you.
my friend’s brother is away at boarding school, so she’s sleeping in his room now without his permission. she’s totally columbusing it, dude!
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v.
when a white person claims to have ‘discovered’ something that already existed. like columbus did with the americas. it usually entails taking credit for something that may be part of someone’s culture and might already have been there, such as black fashion, african american slang, or twerking and dreadlocks.

christopher columbus is acclaimed for having ‘discovered’ the new world. him, an european white guy backed by the spanish crown just waltzed in and took over the land and the people who had been there for thousands of years with their culture and form of life. him and his men brought illness and suffering and christianity to the ‘savages’.
a similar trend is seen when white, middle-cl-ss people move into neighborhoods that are predominantly non-white and of a lower socio-economic level and hype up the prices, kicking out the inhabitants who’ve lived there for generations. gentrification is a form of columbusing.
whenever a white dude wear dreads, like most white people who don’t know the cultural and religious implications of doing so, they are guilty of columbusing.
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when a non-white racist posts a definition on urban dictionary and uses his ignorance of post-moor-invasion spain to act as though he’s being clever by ripping white people for claiming old sh-t as their own.
dave: “hey, bro- check out this ignorant definition in the urban dictionary– this dude thinks columbus was white and he’s pretending that only white people claim old sh-t like they invented it.”
jamal: “hang on, i gotta finish this beat i made out of an old lynyrd skynyrd sample for this alb-m i’m burning so rihanna can put her name on it… oh, d-mn! yeah, even i have to admit he’s columbusing that sh-t.”
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to do something that no one has ever done before.
1.often used when describing having s-x with a virgin girl.
john: “yo i heard you got with that abstinent girl over the weekend, is that sh-t true?”
phil: “yeah man, i was straight columbusing that bittie!”

bob: “dude you know that hot but like really conservative girl that says she’s saving it for marriage?”
jim: “yeah what about her”
bob: “saving it for marriage my -ss, i just columbused that sh-t.”