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   Cheesecake, Racketeering, And Other Trending Words On Dictionary.com

   Food, food, glorious food made its presence known in a big way on this Thanksgiving week edition of the Dictionary.com Trending Words list. From a rarely used plural for beef to a beef over the proper way to describe cheesecake, here’s what had you searching November 16–23, 2018! Cheesecake If there’s one thing Americans love, it’s food. We have a whole holiday centered around consuming …

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   NIFOC

   Enjoyed by nudists and masturbators alike, NIFOC stands for naked (or nude) in front of computer. It is often used humorously and facetiously online, but you can never be too sure when it comes to the internet.
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   juxera

   Juxera is a gender identity created on Tumblr. It can be described as being feminine but not a female, like a girl but not a girl.
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   subreddit

   A subreddit is a specific online community, and the posts associated with it, on the social media website Reddit. Subreddits are dedicated to a particular topic that people write about, and they're denoted by /r/, followed…
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   baiser

   Un baiser is French for "a kiss." If used as a verb, baiser is vulgar slang for sex, equivalent to the English "fuck" or "screw."
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   weird flex but OK

   Weird (or odd) flex but OK is a snarky, mocking internet slang response to when someone brags about something deemed unusual, bizarre, baffling, or questionable. A boast about owning a zebra or spending $1000 at Starbucks? Weird…
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   sacré bleu

   Sacré bleu! Zut alors! Mon Dieu! The term sacré bleu is a dated, stereotypical French expression meant to express astonishment, shock, or amazement.
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   Christmas creep

   Sure, we might call the Grinch or Scrooge literal Christmas creeps ... but this term actually refers to that moment when Christmas music, decorations, and sales come earlier and earlier every year. The annual appearance of Christmas merchandise…
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   hunty

   Hunty, a blend of honey and cunt(y), is a sassy term of endearment used in the drag community.
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    sitrep

    Roger, Charlie, give me a sitrep at 0900! A sitrep is a status report on military activity in an area.
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    Excelsior, Stay In Your Lane, And Other Trending Words On Dictionary.com

    From the loss of one of the world’s superheroes to the happenings on the world stage, take a look at the news stories that made people scurry to Dictionary.com November 9–16, 2018 to find meaning. Excelsior Marvel fans mourned the loss of one of the comic book industries superheroes November 12. Stan Lee died at age 95, leaving behind the legendary characters he created or …

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    this guy

    Who's got two thumbs and just dropped their cell phone in the toilet? This guy. This guy is an expression used to highlight when someone has done something stupid or unbelievable. It's often used to reference oneself.