transitive property
Italy beat Sweden and Sweden beat France, so by, er, the transitive property Italy beat France. It's math, bro! Outside of mathematics, the transitive property is slang and a sometime meme where a person uses a series of…
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the struggle is real
My WiFi is slow. I can't find matching socks. I have a 9am meeting. The struggle is real ... The struggle is real is a phrase that expresses joking, hyperbolic, and ironic frustration. -
Steak and Blowjob Day
Steak and Blowjob Day is an unofficial joke holiday which falls on March 14th, precisely one month after Valentine’s Day. Conceived as a dude-centric answer to Valentine’s Day, it includes the two things men stereotypically… -
ManBearPig
It leaves no one alive ... the ManBearPig is a monster from the adult cartoon South Park, warned about by a fictionalized version of Al Gore. It's become a pop-culture symbol of hoaxes or ridiculous beliefs. -
Bazinga!
Bazinga! It's an interjection used to rub a good joke in someone's face or cheer yourself on after a personal win, popularized as the catchphrase of the character Sheldon Cooper on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. -
hot mess
You might be hot and you might be a mess, but are you a hot mess? Hot mess is used to describe a particularly disorganized person or chaotic situation. In some uses, a person described… -
flop account
Flop account is a term that describes a social-media account used to debate things that the poster deems a “flop” or “cringeworthy." -
Last Month In Pop Language: “I Like It” And Other July #1s
by Molly Rosen Marriner It’s another installment of Last Month in Pop Language, a column where the most popular (statistically) song, book, and film of the month will have their words analyzed in hopes of drawing a conclusion about language’s current usage—and future. At the end of each monthly column, we’ll draw a conclusion: Was last month’s pop language masterly, malevolent, or merely meh? Film: Ant-Man and the Wasp …
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This Word Of The Day Quiz Contains No Improbity!
It may be nubilous outside, but you’ll feel sunshine and rainbows while taking this new Word of the Day Quiz … we’re sure of it. If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser. Interested in Words of the Day from the past? Check out this one that we brought to life … Not sure what some of the definitions of these words …
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cock-block
Cock-blocking is the action of preventing someone (usually a man) from having sex by intentionally or unintentionally stopping (blocking) someone else's cock from reaching its intended destination. This behavior could be driven by jealousy, competition, genuine concern… -
cis
Cis is short for cisgender, which refers to when a person's gender identity corresponds to their sex as assigned at birth. Cisgender is the opposite of transgender. -
In My Feelings Challenge
The In My Feelings Challenge is the name for a viral dance trend in which people dance outside of an open car door to the song "In My Feelings" by rapper Drake.
