A fork of Rural Dictionary
A role-playing game enthusiast who makes it his life's work to memorize every obscure rule in the game. Usually owns every book and supplement for the game in question. Often uses obscure rules to show up other gamers.
"Mike knows like every tiny little thing about that game...total rules lawyer."
1. In the Alex Nagy Dictionary, a doctor-lawyer refers to the occupation which every non-drug addict in the world should aspire to have. Should be pronounced as a single word.
2. The job that Andrew is one day going to have... whether he likes it or not.
Nagy: "You gonna be a doctor-lawyer, son?"
Andrew: "Actually, I was considering going into the adult film industry."
Nagy: "Noooooo, sonnnnnn, nooooo!"
to stop answering questions during a police interrogation and request a lawyer.
He lawyered up, but only after he confessed to being in Cheryl's apartment.
1. for a criminal suspect to stop an interview with police and seek representation from a lawyer
2. to threaten to sue someone
1. The interview ended abruptly when the suspect lawyered up.
2. "Laura's threatening to sue me over the marshmallow incident."
"Seriously? I never thought she would lawyer up over that."
1. A prison inmate who, despite having no legal education, studies law and argues for the rights of other inmates.
2. A lawyer who throws out any and all arguments, even blatantly wrong ones, for his client.
His lawyer said the defendant must have been the victim of a CIA mind-control experiment -- now that was a jailhouse lawyer argument.
A prisoner who has not practice law or had any legal training, but is disposed to a lengthy discussion of his legal rights and those of other inmates
He's always has something to complain about. He's such a jailhouse lawyer.
Someone who use some twitter, Facebook, or any other social media and they will have debates about police shooting and other things relating about the law when they don’t even know anything about the law
Internet Laywer: “Pennsylvania VS. Mimms only applies for PA.” Intellectual: “No it’s a Supreme Court case.” Internet Lawyer: “Well you should have said that the first time.”