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   blockchain

   A blockchain is a type of decentralized database system based on linking together previous records in secure blocks of information.
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   conversion therapy

   Conversion therapy refers to the widely discredited practice that attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
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   Drop it like it’s hot

   Drop it like it’s hot is a phrase often associated with hip-hop, rap, and dance music. It’s used most commonly as a command or request. Specifically, it refers to a dance move where a person…
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   foot fetish

   A foot fetish is a sexual attraction to feet, often including shoes.
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   hakuna matata

   Hakuna matata roughly translates to "there are no troubles" in Swahili. The phrase was popularized in English by the 1994 Disney movie The Lion King, where it’s translated as "no worries." It has a connotation…
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   kumbaya

   Rooted in an American spiritual and folk song of the same name, kumbaya refers, often disparagingly, to moments of or efforts at harmony and unity.
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   more cowbell

   More cowbell is a pop-culture catchphrase that stems from a comedy sketch about 1970s rock music. The sketch centers around a character who seems to believe that the cowbell, a simple percussion instrument, is the…
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   oogle

   An oogle is a panhandler who lives on the streets, most frequently a new or unserious one who is perceived as homeless by choice, rather than by necessity.
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   puppet master

   A puppet master is a person or group that secretly controls other people or things, as if they were puppets.
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    Shark Week

    Shark Week refers to the Discovery channel’s popular week-long television special on sharks. It is also slang for menstruation.
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    tbh, rate, and date

    Tbh, rate, and date is a social-media prompt in which someone requests friends’ opinions of them. The friends then post an honest statement, a rating, and whether they’d date them or not.
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    yee

    Yee is the sound that a character from the movie Dinosaur Adventure makes. It’s also the name of a meme. The meme generally involves taking existing media and adding sound clips from two characters from…