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full send
YOLO! If you do something full send, especially in extreme sports, you're doing it it full-throttle and with 100% commitment—even if you end up failing. In extended, popular slang, full send has the sense of… -
left on read
In internet slang, a person is left on read when a recipient has read, but not responded to, a sender's message. The expression is often used to express feeling ignored. -
qq
Qq is an emoticon that represents "crying." In the gaming community, it is used as a taunt against players seen as unskilled or weak. Elsewhere online, qq variously denotes sadness, loss, or "crying." -
What Kind Of Songs Get To Be Called “Country Music”?
by Ashley Austrew What comes to mind when we say country music? Pickup trucks and cowboy hats? Garth Brooks and Patsy Cline? How about West African string instruments and Atlanta-based hip-hop? Past and present, country music—and what gets to be called country music—is far more complex than many realize. What is country music? Country music is defined as “a style and genre of largely string-accompanied American popular …
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53x
If you want to write about doing the nasty in text (or online) in a discreet way, you might try 53x, a dated internet slang rendering of sex. -
Words To Help Explain Relationships In The 2010s
Internet tech has transformed not only how we date and relate from courtship of olden times, but how we talk about it as well.
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Spotify and side hug
If Netflix and chill is too intimate, you might opt for Spotify and side hug instead. Spotify and side hug is a humorous riff on Netflix and chill, meant as a way to turn down… -
tankie
A tankie is a leftist political insult for a communist who defends Stalinism or supports authoritarian or militaristic, anti-capitalist regimes. -
Terms Used By People Who Identify As Two Or More Races
by Nicole Holliday When I was a kid, I always just assumed that everyone in the world called people like me “mixed,” because in the 1990s in central Ohio, where I grew up, mixed almost always referred to folks like me, who had one black parent and one white parent. The community I grew up in had very few people who identified as anything other …
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Enjoy The Yummy Umami Of This Word Of The Day Quiz
Greetings, my yealings, this week’s facultative Word of the Day quiz hath arrived. If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser. Tell us your favorite word from this week, and share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter!
