Gotcha Day
Among pet parents, Gotcha Day is the day people celebrate bringing home their new pet, usually a rescue. In the adoption community, Gotcha Day is a controversial name for the practice of celebrating the day…
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> is a symbol that means “greater than.” In math, it shows one value is larger than another (4 > 3). It can also conveniently stand in for the phrase greater than in casual writing… -
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What Is “Stochastic Terrorism,” And Why Is It Trending?
On Saturday, August 3, a gunman in El Paso, Texas, took the lives of 22 people and injured many more. The next morning, another shooter claimed 9 victims in Dayton, Ohio. As people were processing these massacres, many turned to the dictionary. We observed lookups for one term, stochastic terrorism, surge 63,389% on August 4, as compared to the week prior. Topping searches on https://t.co/OeJELgy3YL …
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egirl and eboy
The terms egirls and eboys are slang terms for young women and men, respectively, who are active internet users, often stereotyped as emo-styled anime and gaming fans trying to get attention on social media. -
à la
Borrowed from French, à la means "according to" or "in the manner of," e.g., everyday, observational humor à la Jerry Seinfeld (as Jerry Seinfeld would make jokes). In cooking, à la refers to a way of… -
How The Letter “X” Creates More Gender-Neutral Language
by Rory Gory The letter X is often used to represent the unknown or the indescribable. In English, there are so few words beginning with X that in Samuel Johnson’s famous early dictionary, X was defined as, “a letter, which, though found in Saxon words, begins no word in the English language.” The mathematician and philosopher René Descartes used the letter X to represent variable …
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bandwagon fan
There are diehard fans, and then there are bandwagon fans. Bandwagon fans only show interest and support for a sports team based on recent successes or popularity, e.g., when their city's football is going to… -
cat tax
A cat tax is a cute image or video of a cat posted online as a fun, ironic "fine" (tax) upon introduction to a forum or social media platform, for breaking an internet group rule,… -
number neighbor
A number neighbor is someone who has the same (cell) phone number as you, except the last digit is one lower or higher. Sharing funny or charming text-message exchanges with one's number neighbor went viral… -
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Yeehaw Agenda
Spreading in 2018–19, the yeehaw agenda is a trend in the popular culture, especially in Black popular culture, featuring artists and celebrities drawing from cowboy/country culture in dress, music, or attitude.
