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77 words contributed
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v. to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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n. the substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright
ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows
little sign of breaking down in the near future.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
usually given as an order, chillax is a contraction of "chill"
and "relax.11/03/2010 -
n. olive-flavored mouthwash.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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vandalism spray-painted very, very highOrigin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error
message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document
could not be located.
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The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the
rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere"
are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the
problems they were designed to solve. This is often
affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" needless
paperwork and processes.Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006 -
n.the frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally
walked through a spider web.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
n. 1. An archive of achievements. 2. Rule by accomplishment.Origin: A typo from someone on twitter defined.6/13/2009
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The process by which people seem to absorb success and
advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006 -
n. a rapidly receding hairline.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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n. satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your
bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006 -
n. the act of buying a house, which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
n. the color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit
you're eating.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
1. The act of judging by hair length. 2. Discrimination against short-haired
women.Origin: [rejected from Wiktionary]5/2005 -
A meaningless word which can be used in substitution for a noun. In rare
cases, it can be used as a verb and adjective. Often used with the "song". It
can also be used by itself in the form of a question.Origin: rejected from Wikipedia; American Geek5/2005 -
n. an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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n. the person upon whom one coughs.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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Confused and puzzled simultaneously.5/2005
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An office filled with cubicles.Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006
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n.the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only
things that are good for youOrigin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at
you rapidly.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
collective or individual I
6/1996 -
v. to attempt an explanation while drunk.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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to take away spite
6/1996 -
n. emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run
over by a steamroller.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
The flintstep is when Fred or any of the other Flintstone characters wind up
their feet while suspended in the air, and then take off to the other end of the
screen.Origin: rejected from Wikipedia5/2005 -
Act of water flying from a source into or onto something
else.
6/1996 -
any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting laid.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
n. the belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the
roof and gets stuck there.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
Bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous.2/2005
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all talk and no action.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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1. to become a couch potato. 2. dedicated
to couch-potatoness, i.e. a gooze night.Origin: [rejected from Wiktionary]5/2005 -
a person who's both stupid and an asshole.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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to take coffee intravenously when you are running late.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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To inspect and investigate simultaneously.Origin: [slang; rejected by Wiktionary]5/2005
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euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
it's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad
vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes
and it's like, a serious bummer.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
adj. appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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A person incapable of making up new words.5/2005
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v. to walk with a lisp.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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A male partner in a relationship.Origin: [rejected from Wiktionary]5/2005
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A person who enjoys meetings and all sorts of administrative events and tries
to attend as many of them as possible. E.g. Being socially active is one thing,
meeting for the sake of meeting is another. I try to stay away from meetniks
for whom getting together is an end in itself.Origin: [meet + suffix 'nik'; rejected from Wiktionary]5/2005 -
A compulsion to steal women's undergarments.Origin: [medical; rejected by Wiktionary]5/2005
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The quality of being a woman. <p>
additional info: Its current usage is not well-established yet. Different
dictionaries consider it as a synonym of femininity, womanhood, womankind,
womenfolk. The word came into a wider circulation after the book of Joni
Arredia, although its occasional usage may be traced to much earlier times,
e.g., in Al Purdy's poem Uncle Fred on Côte des Neiges (in Poems for All the
Annettes (Toronto, 1962)).Origin: [rejected from Wikipedia; a borrowing from Latin muliebritas ("womanhood"), from "mulier" for "woman"]5/2005 -
adj. absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a
nightgown.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
I swear on my dead homie's grave. <p>
additional info: (It is also seen as "Nephs Ike" and "Nephs Yo" and more
recently as "Nephs Ike Yo." The addition of "Ike" and/or "yo" simply add
emphasis.)
Origin: [a saying used in Pittsburgh, PA and the surrounding area; ]5/2005 -
ner-di-kalof, relating to, or concerned with nerds or the action of being a nerd.
(Apparently he thinks he has about 67 antennas in his car, but that all of
them are for crazy, nerdical purposes, not for receiving tv goodness. In this
case, nerdical is a reference to "war-driving.")Origin: rejected from Wikipedia; American Geek5/2005 -
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that
you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')
Origin: New entries for the Oxford English Dictionary 2005/16/2006 -
a degenerate disease.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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n. a person who sprinkles his conversation with yiddishisms.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an electronic
device to get it to work again.Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006 -
n. An intellectual dilettante, one who only "sips from the Pierian spring"
The consensus was that it was derived from the Pierian Spring, and meant
someone who only dabbled in learning. That would make a pieriansipist
someone who has sipped from the Pierian Spring and therefore slightly inspired
by the Muses.
A pieriansipist can often be found in the world of the Web, wherein it is easy to
read a little about a lot, and thus know a dangerously small amount about a
great number of different things.Origin: submitted by Latishya Klair2008 -
n. a rastafarian proctologist.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm,
and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going
on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because
there may be cake.)Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006 -
A chore, long-avoided and low in priority, which one finds oneself doing in
order to avoid a more important and imminent task. Example: The dwindling
hours of April 15, with the (U.S.) tax forms sitting on the desk untouched, is
the time to re-grout the bathtub.Origin: [rejected from Wiktionary]5/2005 -
n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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coming back to life as a hillbilly.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream
only to get screwed and die.Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006 -
the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person
who doesn't get it.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010 -
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
everything, and then leaves.Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006 -
Of a word whose spelling or pronunciation is particularly reminiscent of its
meaning (as opposed to the sound of its meaning as in the case of
onomatopoeia).Origin: [rejected from Wiktionary]5/2005 -
exiling a roommate from the room so the other roommate can
engage in sexual activity.Origin: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/30/tufts.sex.roommate/index.html10/01/2009 -
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What
yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them
stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home
business".Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006 -
The phenomenon by which one thinking multiple thoughts simultaneously
while speaking will cause his statements to become incomprehensible; a
thought hiccup.Origin: [rejected from Wiktionary]5/2005 -
v. Gulping down something slimey. Example: Man sklorks down 420 oysters,
wins.4/14/2008 -
to commit to a relationship between two or more people
6/1996 -
to laugh/giggle with mal intent
6/1996 -
used to describe a relationship between 2 people where smec is
made and kissing occurs but one or more of the people involved
is/are not really sure of the future of the relationship
6/1996 -
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.Origin: This word appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column5/16/2006
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n. Words stuffed full of lifeless form fitted meaning.4/20/2009
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n. a humorous question on an exam.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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1. State of edgy sobriety abstaining from alcohol until the next time you get
together with friends. 2. The state of being of recuperation after partying too
much and anticipating the next time you're going to hurt yourself all over
again. 3. The state of being of doing something which you wonder "how the
heck did I get here?!" 4. Doing something that doesn't quite make sense -
realizing that it doesn't - yet keep doing it because you haven't figured out
something better to do so you keep doing it until then.Origin: rejected from Wikipedia5/2005 -
An exclamation of joy.5/2005
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adj. impotent.Origin: Washington Post11/05/2010
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A word which can be used in combination especially by those who prefer to
avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes, a proper noun used in
place of a name, or something that anything alive, be it human or animal, can
be called.Origin: [rejected from Wiktionary]5/2005