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Alzheimer’s Onsight

Word: Alzheimer’s onsight (n)

Definition: Claiming an onsight for a route you have climbed before by declaring that you don’t remember having done it.

Usage “Mate, you’ve got a memory like a sieve claiming the onsight of Lardy Lady’s Lats—I’ve climbed it with you three times. Alzheimer’s onsight, you old bastard.”

[From the Vertical Life contest]