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  1. 🧛 Vampire emoji

    The Vampire emoji 🧛  depicts a classic vampire with fangs and a black cape with a high, red-lined collar. Vampires are a very popular fantasy creature and the Vampire emoji 🧛 is frequently used alongside…
  2. Roe v. Wade

    Roe v. Wade is a landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in which restrictive state laws banning abortion were ruled unconstitutional. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the ruling.
  3. pretty sus

    Pretty sus is short for pretty suspicious, colloquially used to accuse someone of some very shady or sketchy behavior. The specific phrase pretty sus spread as a meme in 2020 thanks to the popularity of…
  4. breaking news

    October surprise

    An October surprise is an unexpected event or breaking news story that generally happens in October and potentially upends the outcome of an election, especially a U.S. presidential election. (October is a crucial month leading…
  5. 💤 Sleeping Symbol emoji

    The Sleeping Symbol emoji 💤 depicts three, generally blue Z's increasing in size as they rise to the right. It is variously used to represent sleeping, dreaming, snoring, tiredness, exhaustion, or boredom.
  6. 💙 Blue Heart emoji

    The Blue Heart emoji 💙 depicts a classic representation of a heart, colored blue. It can be used to express love, support, admiration, happiness, and excitement—particularly toward various things that have some relation to the…
  7. long-hauler

    A long-hauler is a person who suffers from symptoms of COVID-19 for longer than two weeks, and generally for several months. The experience of such persistent symptoms of COVID-19 are sometimes referred to as long…
  8. sickening

    Originating in and popularized by drag culture, sickening means “amazing,” “wonderful,” or “excellent.” It is especially used to compliment a drag queen as looking “extremely attractive" or "flawless."
  9. Light green background with dark green centered text that reads lavendar ceiling

    lavender ceiling

    Lavender ceiling is the belief that there is a glass ceiling specifically imposed on LGBTQ+ people: an unofficial upper limit to their professional advancement. A lavender ceiling is believed to be the result of systemic bias…
  10. HTC emoji

    Big tech companies like Apple, Google, and Twitter make their own emoji designs—and for a short period in the mid-2010s, so did the smartphone-maker HTC used its own distinct HTC emoji.
  11. rim job

    Content warning: The following article contains graphic and explicit references to sexual language, which are included because they document the real-world use of this slang term. A rim job is sexual slang for performing oral…
  12. hot girl or hot guy

    A hot girl or guy is a woman or man who is considered very sexually attractive. Of course, nonbinary people can be hot, too—they may just not identify as girl or guy.