rebirthing

plural rebirthings

1. uncountableusuallyspiritualityRebirth.
2. InternetuncountableusuallygamesAn act of resetting a player character's level to its initial value (i.e., 1) while retaining equipment and/or some skills (a feature that allows a player to try out different classes or builds).
3. New AgeuncountableusuallyThe practice of simulating the birth process by wrapping a child tightly in blankets from which it must struggle to escape, as an intended treatment for attachment disorder.
4. AustraliaslanguncountableusuallyautomotiveThe practice of transferring identifying parts of a wrecked car (registration plates, compliance plate, etc.) onto a stolen car of the same make and model, allowing the stolen car to be sold with the identity of the wreck.

   2004, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004 Year Book Australia, Number 86, page 325, Other investigations include South-East Asian organised crime, money laundering and tax fraud on the Commonwealth, vehicle rebirthing and identity fraud.

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   They are also involved in cannabis dealing, vehicle theft, car rebirthing, currency counterfeiting and fraud.

   2010, James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Gangland Australia, page 335

   New bosses were running things now – the hydro marijuana houses, the standover and the car rebirthing.

   2010, Adam Shand, Big Shots: Inside Melbourne′s Gangland Wars, page 180

5. InternetuncountableusuallyThe role-playing practice of bodily crawling into and reemerging from a simulated vagina.