Usually means: Undermine confidence with backhanded compliments.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. neg: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. neg: Merriam-Webster
  3. neg, neg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. NEG, neg: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Neg, neg, neg: Wordnik
  6. neg: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. neg: Wiktionary
  8. neg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. neg: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. neg, neg: Dictionary.com
  11. NEG, Neg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. NEG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. NEG, neg: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neg-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NEG: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. NEG: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neg: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. NEG: Acronym Finder
  2. NEG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. neg, neg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Neg: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (seduction community) An expression or implication that one has a negative value judgement of someone in order to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.
adjective:  (LGBTQ slang) HIV negative.
verb:  (slang, British) To annoy or irritate deliberately.
verb:  (transitive, seduction community) To express or imply a negative value judgement of someone to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.
verb:  (transitive, Internet slang) To leave negative feedback about (someone) in a reputation tracking system.
noun:  (photography) Clipping of negative. [Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto]
noun:  (rhetoric) Clipping of negative. [Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto]
noun:  (Australian politics) Initialism of National Energy Guarantee.
noun:  (Australian politics) Alternative letter-case form of NEG

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