Definition of parental unit

parental unit    

noun

• a parent. Origin: from the "The Coneheads" sketches in the United States TV show Saturday Night Live.

  I've got to call the parental units before they start worrying.

  • See more words with the same meaning: parent.

  Last edited on Mar 26 2013. Submitted by Emily M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Jan 13 1998.

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Other terms relating to 'parent':
helicopter parent	Definitions include: an over-attentive parent.
gramma	Definitions include: "grandmother".
mamma	Definitions include: "mother".
T-Jones	Definitions include: a mother.
GILF	Definitions include: an attractive older woman.
ma	Definitions include: pretty, cute or hot girl.
mitty	Definitions include: mother
baby mamma	Definitions include: see "baby mama".
hockey mom	Definitions include:
dad bod	Definitions include: "dad bod" i.e. "dad body".
gram	Definitions include: grandmother.
your mamma	Definitions include: the target of a variety of jokes used to insult a person's mother.
gramps	Definitions include: "grandfather."
your mom	Definitions include: a comeback used in an argument when one can't think of anything better to say.
T-lady	Definitions include: mother.
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Other terms relating to 'parent':
helicopter parent	Definitions include: an over-attentive parent.
'rents	Definitions include: abbreviated form of "parents."
stage parent	Definitions include: an over-bearing parent of a child actor.
Other terms relating to 'unit':
fleet support unit	Definitions include: a woman who is married to a sailor and has sex with other sailors.
g-unit	Definitions include: Gangsta Unit, G-unit is also the name of a rapper, 50 Cent often uses this term in his songs
SKU	Definitions include: "stock-keeping unit".
unit	Definitions include: a person who is "just not right" primarily due to frequent and hard drug use in the past.
vaginal unit	Definitions include: a female.

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