"millennial pause" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: millennial pauses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} millennial pause (plural millennial pauses)
  1. (neologism, Internet) A brief pause taken by someone between starting a video recording of themselves and beginning to speak, said to be characteristic of millennials (people born around the 1980s and 1990s). Tags: Internet, neologism Categories (topical): Internet Synonyms: Millennial pause Related terms: Gen Z shake
    Sense id: en-millennial_pause-en-noun-aD6t6oI4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English neologisms

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