bukkake
Content warning: The following article contains explicit references to sexual language, which are included because they document the real-world use of this term. Bukkake is Japanese word which roughly translates to "to splash with…
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the cake is a lie
Sonny, let me tell you about the memes from back in the day. The cake is a lie is a 2000s meme based on the video game, Portal, and used for a false promise, temptation, or… -
yaoinsfw
Yaoi is a Japanese term for manga that features sexual romance between men, specifically as created by and for women. In the West, yaoi is used more generally to refer to any anime, manga, fan… -
half your age plus seven
How young is too young to hook up with someone? Do the math. If they are older than half your age plus seven years, then you are all good—at least as far as this rule of thumb… -
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… -
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 …
