Eastwood Rule
The Eastwood Rule is a rule in the Director's Guild of America that prohibits someone already working on a film (producer, actor, etc.) from firing a director during production and replacing them with themselves.
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Jexodus
Jexodus is the name of a right-wing political effort to encourage Jewish Democrats to leave (as an exodus) and join the Republican party due to the left's supposed anti-Semitic, anti-Israel policies. -
Emoji Challenge
The Emoji Challenge is a viral internet challenge in which participants hilariously reenact or otherwise interpret emoji in real life. -
pornocchio
Pornocchio is a term used in various erotic parodies of or popular puns about Pinocchio. It's also occasional slang for someone who lies about sex, such as embellishing their escapades, or lies about looking at pornography. -
blorange
Blorange is a blend of blond and orange or blood orange, most often used to describe a trendy hair color. -
Tope
Tope is a ship (fictional relationship) of the characters Hope Brady and Ted Laurent on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Tope is also an occasional slang blend of tight and dope, like "very cool." -
Bechdel test
The Bechdel test is an informal way to evaluate bias against women in films and other media. A work is said to pass the Bechdel test if it 1) has two (named) women, who 2) talk to each… -
hectocorn
It is the most elusive, and expensive, creature of them all: the hectocorn, a financial term for a company valued at over $100 billion. -
decacorn
A decacorn is a financial term for a relatively new company that is worth at least $10 billion. -
The Names For Different Types Of Fireworks
On Independence Day (July 4th), we ooh and ahh at the fireworks bursting in air, but did you know that the different types of fireworks effects have their own names? What’s a peony firework? The peony is one of the most common kinds of aerial pyrotechnic effects. It is named for a variety of plants with large, showy flowers. This firework display has a flower-like explosion …
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The Words That Make Us Tick: What Users Are Looking Up On Dictionary.com Every Day
You may have noticed a nifty new tool scrolling across the top of the homepage of Dictionary.com. But, what makes it tick? What is the trending word ticker, and how does it work? Rather than reading out stock prices, our ticker pulls real-time data on daily word search trends in our dictionary. The percentage is a measurement of how many searches there are for a …
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the Arya Challenge
The Arya Challenge is an internet trend where people imitate a skilled, lethal knife jab by the character Arya Stark on the popular television show Game of Thrones. (Of course, don't go imitating this with knives…
