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re-tardy

I. the act of being tardy on more than one occasion

II. retarded

I. Attention all, Bill is still sick, he is going to be re-tardy for work today.

II. Are you re-tardy?

[mental re-tardy]

The state of being slow,usually noticing things everyone else knows already or being the last one to get a joke.Not exactly retardation,just slow thinking.

John started laughing out of nowhere,i asked him what was wrong and he said i finally got that family guy joke from last year,total mental re-tardy.