⌨️ Keyboard emoji
The keyboard emoji, added in 2015, is most commonly used in conversations around online gaming and other technology.
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🈹 Circled Ideograph Congratulation emoji
Depicting a Japanese character for "congratulations," the circled ideograph congratulation emoji conveys celebratory or good wishes and blessings, usually on birthdays and during holidays. -
💓 Beating Heart emoji
Depicting a pulsing pink or red heart symbol, the beating heart emoji is used as an intensive form of the red heart emoji ❤️, expressing passionate love, happiness, excitement, and even obsession. It can also be used to… -
👖 Jeans emoji
Depicting a pair of unisex blue jeans, the jeans emoji is variously used to convey casual attire, denim-based fashion, shopping, and pants and clothing more generally. -
Literary Bullies Who Are Meaner Than We Remembered
Bullies are discussed a lot these days, but they aren’t something new. Tormenters have been around for a long time … especially in literature. Let’s take an inside look at the characters who are bullies and learn about their consequences. Marion Hawthorne In the 1964 children’s novel, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, Marion Hawthorne is a smart-mouthed, entitled classroom bully. It’s never determined why she is …
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Adidas
Adidas is a Germany-based international sportswear brand specializing in shoes. Its name is popularly, though wrongly, said to be an acronym for All Day I Dream About Soccer or other such words beginning with S. -
ride the snake
To ride the snake is to use powerful drugs or have a hallucinatory experience on them. As a humorous colloquialism, ride the snake refers to engaging in risky behaviors likened to doing intense drugs. -
brake check
A brake check is the unsafe action of applying a car's brakes to dissuade a driver who is following too closely. To brake check someone is to perform such an action. -
Ethereum
Ethereum is a blockchain computer program similar to Bitcoin. It can be used to create automated contracts or circulate a digital currency called Ether. -
supercut
A supercut is the name for a compilation of short video clips, usually from film or TV, highlighting some theme or motif. -
WhatsApp
WhatsApp is a free mobile messaging application, massively used for international messaging and voice calls. -
Get High On This Smoking Slang
“One toke over the line . . .” That 1971 hit by the duo Brewer and Shipley was written as a paean to marijuana. On Last.fm, Tom Shipley commented, “‘When we wrote ‘One Toke Over the Line,’ I think we were one toke over the line.” Back in that day, marijuana was lumped in with all sorts of drugs deemed to be forbidden. But now, …
