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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by spondyl on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:54PM (#16025786)
Apparently it's a real word!

Here's the excerpt from dictionary.com

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lubricious [loo-brish-uh s] adjective

    arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous
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It kinda defeats the purpose of using the word if no one else understands what it means :)

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by lostlogin on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:03PM (#16025873)
Sexualising battery replacement schemes needs to stop.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by smarks on Thursday December 28, 2017 @09:07PM (#16026968)
Rule 34 cannot be stopped.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by rflrob on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:43PM (#16026152)
It's also an alternate spelling for libricous, which dictionary.com defines as: adjective 1. (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery. 2. unstable; shifty; fleeting.

So "shifty" could be what they were going for, but my sense of the other two words in definition 2 suggests that it's not quite accurate to use that sense of shifty.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by user5994461 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:45PM (#16026519)
The intended word was probably "ludicrous".
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by dionidium on Thursday December 28, 2017 @09:06PM (#16026965)
I doubt it. He's using it to mean "slippery" or "shifty." It's not a great use of the word, but that's probably the intention.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by natch on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:59AM (#16027899)
Doesn't fit the context.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by dionidium on Friday December 29, 2017 @11:44AM (#16030305)
Of course it does.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by natch on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:39PM (#16041515)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by lostmsu on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:08PM (#16026657)
Maybe ridiculous?
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by loeg on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:01PM (#16026289)
It's a real word, but one that doesn't seem to fit in context nearly as well as the similarly spelled "ludicrous."
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by natecavanaugh on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:39PM (#16026117)
Thank you guys. Seeing it twice made me think someone should mention how aroused batteries were making the OP, but I'm glad to know there are some fellow folks who have this covered ;)
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by B1FF_PSUVM on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:57PM (#16025809)
> no one else understands

I understand fine.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by andrepd on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:04PM (#16025876)
/r/iamverysmart?
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