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  1. hipster coffee shop

    A hipster coffeeshop names a stereotypical, urban independent café serving high-end coffee drinks with an offbeat, minimalist, arty, or otherwise "cool" style. The phrase was at the center of a humorous meme in 2018 sparked by controversial…
  2. quoisexual

    Quoisexual is a sexual orientation on the asexuality spectrum. It can refer to a person who doesn't relate to or understand experiences or concepts of sexual attraction and orientation. It can also refer to someone…
  3. diddy bop

    There are times when you are so 🔥 that no ordinary walk will do. My friend, times like these call for the diddy bop. A diddy bop is a walk or dance that resembles a bouncing strut…
  4. dipped

    Dipped literally refers to something dunked in some kind of substance. But as a slang term, dipped means "to leave" or "to be well-dressed." On a slightly more violent note, it can also refer to…
  5. fronking

    Fronking is a joke slang term referring to farting in water and then "biting" the resulting bubbles. It's also a euphemism for fucking, as in this fronking guy.
  6. WROL

    WROL stands for Without Rule of Law, doomsday prepper lingo for the complete breakdown of governance after a major environmental or other disaster. On a less dystopian note, is also the call sign for a Boston-area…
  7. güey

    Güey, pronounced "whey," is Mexican slang for "dumbass" or "idiot," although it can also be used more as a slang term for "man" or "dude."
  8. ese

    Ese, amigo, hombre. Or, in English slang, dude, bro, homey. Ese is a Mexican-Spanish slang term of address for a fellow man.
  9. wypipologist

    Wypipologist is a humorous slang term for someone, usually a Black person, who "studies" wypipo, or "white people." Wypipo, after all, do some crazy stuff in need of expert explanation.
  10. Old King Clancy

    You say you have a Canadian girlfriend? Oh yeah? Did she give you an Old King Clancy?  Well, we don't believe you, because the Old King Clancy is a suggestive, Canadian-inflected but otherwise unspecified sex act…
  11. acorn

    ACORN is political slang for using deceptively obtained or fake evidence to damage a person's or group's reputation. A squirrelly enterprise, indeed.
  12. mancelled

    Before the #MeToo movement took off in 2017, mancelled was sometimes used to refer to dudes being flakey and cancelling their plans. In the post-#MeToo era, problematic or offensive men can expect to get mancelled, a…