gaydy

Piper has a tattoo of a fish! She got it in Bali when she was scuba diving with her girlfriend because getting commemorative relationship tattoos is just something we gaydies do, let’s be real.

2013 July 12, Kate, “Orange Is The New Black 101: And There Are Lesbians”, in Autostraddle, archived from the original on 2013-07-17:

Digital age women-loving-women, gaydies, gay bois, trannie boys eschew the “L word” (i.e. “lesbian”) in post-gay, post-feminist fashion.

2016, Kay Siebler, Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:

Gaydies and Gentiles, for your land-grabbing pleasure, we present from Way Up Yours, the one’n’only … or for your Latin lovers: the oon and oon-ly… or for you local Klu Klux Klannies: the goon and the goonly… the fabulous daughter of the Freedom Bus, C… C… C… Cinnamon Brown!

2016, Bill Reed, Mirror, Mirror, Victoria, Australia: Reed Independent, →ISBN:

‘Gaydies and lezzerons,’ Nutter shouted into an imaginary microphone. ‘Please welcome the one, the only: Hercule Ease.[…]’

2017, Iestyn Edwards, My Tutu Went AWOL!: What Happens When You Perform Drag Ballet in Iraq, Unbound, →ISBN:

Gaydies and gentlethems! The MerseyPride Icon Award goes to . . . Cherry Brandy!

2022, Jonathan Larkin, Cherry Jezebel, Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 4:

‘Sorry ladies, theydies and gaydies!’

2023, Amara Sage, Influential, Faber & Faber Limited, →ISBN:


theydy

“[…] I’m what you might call a theydy.” […] “Theydy?” I am absolutely sure I would never call anyone that without being prompted. “Nonbinary lady. They pronouns, very lesbian.”

2021, H.E. Edgmon, The Witch King, Inkyard Press, Harlequin, →ISBN:

13 Going On 30 (2004) / This movie showed an entire generation of theydies that you can be thirty, flirty and thriving—meaning that it’s possible to be a successful career woman and a self-obsessed girly girl at the same time.

2021 January 20, Julia Sachs, “The Bimbo Movement Is Here – Movies To Spark Your Bimbofication In 2021 and Beyond”, in Grit Daily, archived from the original on 2021-01-20:

Ladies, theydies, gentlemen, and queers -- start your engines! Vin Diesel, a.k.a. Dom Toretto, has just announced that the title for the upcoming tenth Fast and Furious movie is fittingly Fast X.

2022 April 21, Mey Rude, “16 LGBTQ+ Celebs We Want to See Join the 'Fast & Furious' Franchise”, in Out, archived from the original on 2022-04-21:

OK, we've got a STAR STAR STAR here, theydies and thents! After Princess Diaries, she starred in Grey's Anatomy as THE Dr. Cristina Yang, nabbed a Critics' Choice Award for the film Sideways, and crushed it in like a million other movies and TV shows.

2022 July 20, Jake Farrington, ““The Princess Diaries” Turns 21 This Week — Here’s What The Cast Is Up To Now”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 2022-07-29:

I also heard everything about that theydy-friend you were dizzy with, that they were the rat all along.

2023, Aubrey Wood, Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Solaris, →ISBN:

‘Sorry ladies, theydies and gaydies!’

Even out of drag, she looks like a storybook witch, dressed in all black with big Gucci sunglasses and unkempt orange hair. It’s cold near the river, and we’re both bundled up in scarves and furry coats, looking like babushkas — “little theydies by the water,” she cackles, an expert read.

2023 January 20, Brock Colyar, “The Name on Everybody’s Lips Is Jinkxie”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 2023-01-20:

Oh, and while you’re scrolling through these Amazon finds, be sure to give these TikTok girlies and theydies mentioned a follow to keep up with more epic plus-size fashion hauls.

2023 February 27, Alexis Gaskin, “TikTok Fashion Influencers Are Obsessed With These Plus-Size Clothing Finds at Amazon”, in Stylecaster, archived from the original on 2023-03-01:

Attention ladies, theydies, and honestly anyone fabulous looking to treat yourself to a classic movie makeover montage!

2023 April 24, Colton Clifford, “The Ladies and Theydies Guide to Self-Care in New Orleans”, in New Orleans, archived from the original on 2023-04-26:

(neologism) Polite term of address for a non-binary person, especially a feminine one, or used as a general inclusive term.


visiscreen

An image of Abby appeared on visiscreens at the front of the room.

2010, David Gregory, The Last Christian, Waterville, M.E.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 611:

(science fiction) An electronic screen capable of displaying images or data.


visiplate

The glare of a searchlight splashed against his visiplates. Simultaneously, the ship jumped like some toy that had been struck an intolerable blow.

1940, A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Slan, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., published 1946, page 101:


visiphone

During the late 21st century, the wide-spread use of portable voice-activated interactive computers and visiphones brought communications to their zenith.

2010, Eileen Siedman, The Faithful: 23rd Century Morality: A Mystery Novel, Bloomington, I.N.: Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 25:

(science fiction, dated) A telephone capable of making video calls.


loot rail

The idea held great promise. […] So citizens said yes. But that was a year ago, before inner-city troubles arrived on the boxy white train with a blue stripe, before light rail became known as "loot rail."

1994, U.S. News & World Report, volume 117, page 18:

[…] has launched the anti-“loot rail” movement as it has named itself as a play on “light rail,” but such fears are unwarranted and most thieves have access to automobiles.

2004, James A. Kushner, The Post-Automobile City, page 52:

(US, slang, derogatory) The light rail system of Baltimore, regarded as a means for inner-city criminals to visit other districts to commit robbery.


Scexit

Blend of Scotland + exit, by analogy with Brexit.

As Brexit becomes a settled fact of life, it will still be a cause of remainer grievance. But it could also fuel reluctance to go through the same trauma all over again as “Scexit”. […] The message that Scexit would be even worse than Brexit can still be delivered, just not by Johnson himself.

2021 February 9, Rafael Behr, “Sturgeon and Johnson have made Scottish independence seem inevitable. It isn't”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The (possible) act of Scotland becoming independent from the United Kingdom.


Indiewood

(informal) Independent films made outside of the traditional Hollywood studio system, usually with a low budget.


uraniumaire

A millionaire whose wealth was acquired through uranium mining.


cuckcake

A woman who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.


yarden

It sank contentedly down on all fours, angling its head for easier access. Torin sat down next to the creature, smoothing its white coat. “You've welcomed all of the beings back to this small garden, or yarden, Rebecca.

2008, Eliel Luma Fionn, Return from Purple Earth, page 8:

But if you don't plan or properly plant, these shrubs will pass away in your yarden in less than a month.

2011, Jerry Baker, Flower Power!, page 280:

Fast forward to 2010—to me and my yarden, my “if you don't like something, do something about it” upbringing, that empty lot on Peterson and Campbell, and that photo on the butcher shop wall—[…]

2014, LaManda Joy, Start a Community Food Garden, page 8:

Sometimes I'll drop in a small handful of organic raisins or dried berries, but most times I'll also go outside and pick things from my yarden (what I like to call my yard, since many of the edibles growing there occur naturally) […]

2018, Jereme Zimmerman, Brew Beer Like a Yeti:

I also let plants have their way a bit, which may make my yarden look untended, or wild.

2019, Brooke Criswell, Tea of Tranquility, page 16:

Microcosm is my “yarden” (yard garden). While the space they occupy right outside my bedroom window isn't large, the products of their labor are recognized by many. […] My yarden quickly became the local figurehead of anti-neoliberal resistance. It also became hypervisible to those who disagreed with my alternative ways and made working outside potentially dangerous.

2022, Z. Zane McNeill, Y'all Means All, pages 98, 106:

(neologism, informal, nonstandard) An area which is both a yard and a garden.


news cyclone

Punning blend of news cycle + cyclone, coined by American sociologist Eric Klinenberg in 2005.

coin

Julia Gillard has decided to take on the news cyclone. It used to be called the news cycle, but things move so quickly in the new media age that cyclone is a far more accurate word.

2013, Laurie Oakes, Remarkable Times: Australian Politics 2010-13:

One can see the possibility for limitless content for a 24/7 world: churnalism, hamsterization, the news cyclone—names to describe the condition keep coming.

2014, Nikki Usher, Making News at The New York Times, page 232:

The 24/7 publishing of often unscheduled news reports, replacing the traditional news cycle.


lunarcrete

Researcher Larry Beyer of the University of Pittsburgh says a lunarcrete project would begin with the shipment of two molds and a work crew from Earth. First, the workers would bolt together an inner mold. It would be pressure tight and would serve as their temporary quarters. Then they'd erect an outer mold with a six-foot gap from the inner mold.

1990, David Gump, Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA, New York, N.Y., Westport, C.T., London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 190:

Lunarcrete or mooncrete could be made from lunar regolith, water and cement with the cement manufactured from lunar rock with a high calcium content.

2016, Louisa Preston, Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe, London: Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN, page 265:

One method is to combine regolith with a bonding agent to create lunar concrete (aka. "lunarcrete"), which can be printed out to build structures. In terms of benefits, lunarcrete requires less energy to produce than other building materials, is unaffected by extreme variations in temperature, absorbs harmful radiation, and is unaffected by prolonged exposure to vacuum.

2021 December 13, Matthew S. Williams, “The Logistics of Going "Interplanetary": What Does It Take to Live on the Moon?”, in Interesting Engineering, archived from the original on 2023-03-10:

This paper provides a fundamental basis for future research on confinement and strengthening for future coarse aggregate-free concretes, such as lunarcrete and 3D-printed concrete.

2023 February 15, Cheng Jiang, “Strength enhancement due to FRP confinement for coarse aggregate-free concrete”, in Engineering Structures, volume 277, New York, N.Y.: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon.


bromeopathy

Much of the man's time is currently spent broadcasting racist and hateful ideas to large swathes of the US. If we can get him to embrace "bromeopathy" instead, if we can turn him into the male equivalent of Gwyneth Paltrow, we can minimise his harm.

2022 April 19, Arwa Mahdawi, “I take little interest in men's balls. Unlike Tucker Carlson ...”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-30:

The trainer tells Carson about "bromeopathy"", or alternative medicine for men "who don't trust mainstream information".

2022 May 1, Simon Usborne, “Dude, this 'bromeopathy' is the nuts”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-01:

In April of this year, Tucker Carlson infamously pushed an apocalyptic-messianic "documentary" called "The End of Men" that advocated "testicle tanning," or exposing male genitalia to red light, supposedly to boost testosterone levels, as a form of "bromeopathy."

2022 July 31, Michel Gueldry, “America's heart of darkness: Making sense of the nonsensical allure of MAGA”, in Salon.com, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-05:

There appears to be, on the surface level, a conflict between the more "bromeopathy" aspects of this wellness world and “bro science," or attempts to say wellness claims are supported with scientific evidence.

2023 March 8, Liz Flora, “Alpha-male 'bromeopathy' is getting more support from mainstream wellness brands”, in Glossy, archived from the original on 2023-03-30:

And who could forget the "Tucker Carlson Originals" special "The End of Men," which introduced the world to "bromeopathy," the patriotic practice of bathing one's testicles in red light?

2023 April 25, Andrew Marantz, “The World According to Tucker Carlson”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-04:

(neologism) The scientifically dubious practice of attempting to increase testosterone levels by shining red light on one's testicles.


dronie

(neologism, slang) A photograph taken of oneself by means of a flying drone.


Nevadaplano

Blend of Nevada + altiplano. Coined by American geoscientist Peter G. DeCelles in a 2004 paper in the American Journal of Science.

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DeCelles, P. G. (2004 February 1) “Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and foreland basin system, western U.S.A.”, in American Journal of Science, volume 304, number 2, →Bibcode, →DOI, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-12-01, page 105

At the peak of its development, the retroarc side of the Cordillera was divided into five tectonomorphic zones, including from west to east the Luning-Fencemaker thrust belt; the central Nevada (or Eureka) thrust belt; a high-elevation plateau (the “Nevadaplano”); the topographically rugged Sevier fold-thrust belt; and the Laramide zone of intraforeland basement uplifts and basins.

2004, Peter G. DeCelles, “Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and foreland basin system, western U.S.A.”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 304, number 2, →DOI, archived from the original on 2022-12-01, page 105:

Terming this now-exhumed Late Cretaceous–Eocene hinterland metamorphic belt the Nevadaplano, he estimated that its average elevation probably exceeded 3 km.

2009, W. Gary Ernst, “Rise and Fall of the Nevadaplano”, in International Geology Review, volume 51, numbers 7-8, →DOI, page 583:

During the Late Cretaceous, central Nevada may have been a high elevation plateau, the Nevadaplano; some geodynamic models of the western US require thickened crust and high elevations during the Mesozoic to drive the subsequent tectonic events of the Cenozoic while other models do not.

2014, Kathryn E. Snell et al., “High elevation of the ‘Nevadaplano’ during the Late Cretaceous”, in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, volume 386, →DOI, page 52:

(geology) A high-elevation orogenic plateau that once existed during the Tertiary period in what is modern North America’s Great Basin, analogous to today’s high-elevation South American altiplano.


scisaac

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Scott McCall and Isaac Lahey from the Teen Wolf series.


compucondria

Cyberchondria (compucondria) is the unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomology based on a review of search results and literature online (13).

2020 June 12, Christina Nikolova Grupcheva, Mladena Nikolaeva Radeva, Dimitar Ivanov Grupchev, “How to run an efficient eye care practice during and after the COVID-19 pandemic”, in Scripta Scientifica Medica, volume 52, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 9–16:


Microsloth

2002, Joseph I. Zajda, Society and the Environment, James Nicholas Publishers, page 262:
For example, hackers enjoy playing with and manipulating well known words and phrases: Microsoft becomes "Microsloth", while Internet Explorer mutates into "Internet Exploiter" in hacker language.


chantard

Modeled after /b/tard. From 4chan and "chan"-named imageboards. Blend of chan + bastard and retard

(Internet slang, humorous, 4chan) A participant on the 4chan online imageboard and forum


organlegger

Blend of organ + bootlegger (“an illegal trader of goods, especially of alcohol”).

blend

Owen lay dead in the bloody snow, his noble body gashed and punctured in many places, and soaked in his own gore. And that was how the organleggers found him.

2004, Simon R[ichard] Green, Deathstalker Return, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 404:

(science fiction) Someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.


plastiskin

Gavin's supple, plastiskin face was somber, his voice subdued. Ursula could tell that he had been doing a lot of thinking.

1986, David Brin, “Lungfish”, in The River of Time, Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, →ISBN, page 340:

(science fiction) synthetic skin, especially that of an android.


telempathy

"Telempathy is a skill that so far exists only in legends and rumors," Sue says. "To be able to master it would be something immensely valuable to the Sekhem."

2013, C[ynthia] J[aynes] Omololu, Intuition, New York, N.Y. […]: Walker Books, →ISBN, page 213:

(parapsychology, science fiction) The paranormal ability to sense the emotions of others; empathy.


telempath

"Very brave of you, but the ancient dragons of the Circle are very powerful telempaths and often use mind control on dragons untrained in mental battle. I will teach you how to protect your mind and fight a telepathic battle just in case you ever encounter one of their enforcers, or a human wizard."

2010, Susan Trombley, Princess's Dragon, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 60:

(parapsychology, science fiction) Someone able to sense the emotions of others by paranormal means; someone who has the power of telempathy.


threevee

The demon paused before answering, as though listening to an internal voice. Seen up close, he too was slightly blurred — like a threevee picture in the middle of a bad day for sunspots, Kin thought.

1981, Terry Pratchett, Strata, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 157:

She loved to sit with me when three or four of us went to the Blue Sea, to the Bay of Lue, to threevees in the city, to musical shows, or just to eat iced meloncolion on the showy balconies of the comiche.

2016, John Argo, Moon Berry Wine: A Far Future Science Fiction Novel, San Diego, C.A.: Clocktower Books, →ISBN, page 38:

(science fiction) A screen or television able to display a three-dimensional image.


Filamerican

Although we had again been forced to withdraw, and finally abandon the first line of defense, the Filamericans had inflicted heavy casualties upon the enemy.

1984, Paul Ashton, Bataan Diary, page 109:

The Americans on Del Monte helped the Filamericans get the quinine cargo to the Cotabato coast. From there, they were able to make it to the American base in Cotabato, where they found it completely transformed.

2022, Summary of John R. Bruning's Indestructible:

A Filipino who supports the United States military.


Hooperating

(US, broadcasting, historical) A radio or television audience rating determined by the C. E. Hooper Company during the Golden Age of Radio.


Squiggol

Blend of squiggly + ALGOL, from the “squiggly” symbols it uses.

The overall goal of Squiggol is to calculate programs from their specifications in the way a mathematician calculates solutions to differential equations, or uses arithmetic to solve numerical problems.

1991 June, Erik Meijer, Maarten Fokkinga, Ross Paterson, “Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire”, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 124–144:

functional programming
functional programming

(functional programming, humorous) The Bird–Meertens formalism.


Lunix

Blend of Linux + lunatic or perhaps loon.

(informal, dysphemistic) Linux, an operating system originally patterned after Unix and which gave rise to Google's Android operating system.


Slowaris

Blend of slow + Solaris, suggesting slow performance.

Linux faithful mock Solaris with the adolescent nickname "Slowaris," but I challenge critics to find one instance among the innumerable huge-scale Solaris deployments where decision makers are considering a switch to Linux for speed's sake.

2006, InfoWorld, volume 28, number 38, page 24:

(informal, dysphemistic) Solaris, a Unix-based operating system earlier known as SunOS and now developed by Oracle Corporation.


Hamprace

A pig that is a cross-breed between the Hampshire and a landrace.


keytainer

Blend of key + container, originally a trademark.

And in my mind I was looking at something else, a set of brand-new car keys in a keytainer stamped: “The Packard House,” upstairs, in a dead man's pocket.

2005, Tony Hillerman, Rosemary Herbert, Sue Grafton, A New Omnibus of Crime, page 76:

A small portable case for a person's keys.


Linny

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.


Pansmione

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pansy Parkinson and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.


saloonatic

(US, archaic, informal, derogatory) A person who drinks alcohol in saloons.


boywife

(gay slang, LGBT, sometimes humorous) A young male assuming the employment of homemaking, a role traditionally assumed by women; the submissive partner in the relationship who receives great pleasure in "taking care" of his more dominant partner.


mooncrete

He gestured at the mooncrete. "Great stuff, huh? And another case of the Builders showing off. They not only make us a moon; they make us one that will remain forever new."

1988, David F Nighbert, Timelapse, Headline, →ISBN, page 159:

The driver slowed down to a crawl; the vehicle's inflated wheels bumped slightly as they moved onto a mooncrete ramp, then the bus began rolling downward toward a pair of double doors.

2007, Allen Steele, Spindrift, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 20:

The design emphasized the use of extra-terrestrial materials preferably from the Moon. "Mooncrete" – or lunar concrete – should be produced by processing lunar rocks in a factory.

2017 March, Werner Grandl, “Human life in the Solar System”, in REACH, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

An otherworldly project is underway. A researcher at the University of Miami is currently making "mooncrete," a material he hopes to perfect for building a habitable base on the moon.

2019 July 25, Tate Jacaruso, “Thanks To A Miami Researcher We Might Actually Be Building A Habitable Base On The Moon Soon”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 2021-06-14:

Synonym of lunarcrete (“a hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon”).


Gunchester

″You hear people firing off guns all the time,″ she said. ″That’s why they call it Gunchester. I just thought some poor bugger’s got it again, and went on sudsing my hair.″

1993 November 15, Shawn Pogatchnik, “‘Gunchester’: A Dead Son and Shooting in the Street With AM-Guns Invade Britain, Bjt”, in Associated Press:

The chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has said that the city has finally shrugged off its notorious Gunchester image thanks to their intensive efforts to combat gangs.

2011 April 11, Helen Carter, “Farewell to Gunchester”, in The Guardian:

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, gang violence increased, which earned the area [Moss Side] the nickname of "gunchester".

2018 August 13, Imran Rahman-Jones, “Moss Side: A history of the Manchester neighbourhood”, in BBC:

Manchester earned its name Gunchester in the 1980s and 1990s but violence came to a head when Benji Stanley, 14, was shot dead at a takeaway.

2021 March 21, Emily Retter, “Inside 'Gunchester': The brutal blowtorch-armed gangs running riot in Manchester”, in Daily Star:

(UK, informal, derogatory) The English city of Manchester, particularly Moss Side, referring to the city's historical high gun crime rate.


hypepriest

Blend of hypebeast (“a person obsessed about acquiring fashionable items, especially clothing and shoes”) + priest. Coined by GQ editor Sam Schube in 2017 referring to pastor Carl Lentz (see quotation).

The hipster pastor is dead, and into the void strides someone new. He's a man god-fearing and Fear of God-wearing in equal measure. Call him The Hypepriest.

2017 August 7, Sam Schube, “Hypepriests: The Grail-Wearing Pastors Who Dress Like Justin Bieber”, in GQ, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-17:

[Chad] Veach, who was recently dubbed the "hypepriest", is matching his look in a long-sleeved T-shirt with a checkerboard design on the sleeve – merchandise from LA's Zoe Church, where Veach preaches and [Justin] Bieber attends.

2017 August 28, Ellie Violet Bramley, “From hypebeast to hypepriest: why the church is embracing streetwear”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-29:

The hypepriest phenomenon has also swept American Christianity, with the Instagram account @PreachersNSneakers tracking the hypebeast-level sneakers religious leaders are wearing.

2019 May 1, Rachel Tashjian, “What's Up with Kanye West's New Sneaker Socks?”, in GQ, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-02:

The founding pastors, Brian and Bobbie Houston, took Lentz's termination as a church "hypepriest" personally, with Brian writing in his email, "While I have no doubt in my heart that this is the right course of action, I must mention Bobbie's and my personal sadness, as we have known Laura her entire life and Carl for well over 20 years."

2020 November 5, Hannah Frishberg, “Fired Hillsong Church pastor Carl Lentz: I cheated on my wife”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-17:

Is the era of the "hypepriest" over? The ouster of pastor-turned-celebrity Carl Lentz of Hillsong NYC, the controversy and legal troubles swirling around Hillsong founder Brian Houston and a recent documentary series chronicling alleged abuse in the famously famous Hillsong Church, might certainly lead some to believe that the American public has tired of expensively dressed pastors with famous friends and large social media followings.

2022 April 10, Leah Payne, “The rise and fall of Hillsong's 'hypepriests'”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2023-05-03:

(neologism) A celebrity priest or pastor who dresses fashionably; a hypebeast priest.


gamejack

en-verb

gamejack (third-person singular simple present gamejacks, present participle gamejacking, simple past and past participle gamejacked)

gamejacks (present singular third-person)
gamejacking (participle present)
gamejacked (participle past)
gamejacked (past)

alternate reality game
alternate reality game

(alternate reality game fandom slang) To create third-party material that disruptively presents itself as being part of an ARG.


kinosseur

Why, yes, I DO own a few Criterion Collection LaserDiscs! I'm something of a kinosseur myself.

(Internet slang, 4chan) A person who watches and appreciates films, especially those considered kino.


askhole

An askhole is someone who asks for advice but never applies these tips for the changes they seek.

2021, Derek DeCosta, The Moonlight King:

You might say, I'm going to be an askhole and tell you about my dilemma, and I say that I want your opinion, but don't expect me to actually go with your recommendation. Askhole conversations can be draining and unfulfilling […]

2023, Charlotte Fox Weber, Tell Me What You Want, page 272:

A person who asks for advice but refuses to follow it.


NanoPutian

Portmanteau/Blend of nanometer + lilliputian


Texaplex

Blend of Texas + metroplex. Analyzable as Tex + -a- + -plex

A conurbation in Texas, United States A heavily populated roughly triangular region of Texas containing the majority of its population, and its largest cities, spreading between Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), Houston, San Antonio, and, Austin.


downalator

“Your own true love has set his foot on the first step of the down-alator.”
“The what?”
“Opposite number of the escalator. The down-alator. It leads to the place where all bad critics go.”
[…]
“I just don't want you on that down-alator, that's all.”
“The what?”
“Never mind.”

1960, 38:20 and 42:05 from the start, in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (motion picture):

One of my children solved that one 25 years ago when he was little more than a toddler. As we were walking through a department store he told me he wanted to ride the “upalator,” but that the “downalator” was too scary for him.
Wouldn’t it be simpler to call them the upalator and the downalator? The only exception might be the escalator in the Centrum, the big department store in Warsaw. If I remember correctly, that machine only went up. It had no “down” counterpart.

1988 May 29, Bob O’Sullivan, “Going Down an Elevator Is Rarely Uplifting”, in Los Angeles Times:

He was right: JCVD — which opens this weekend in New York City, and Nov. 14 in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose and Washington, D.C. — is the best movie Van Damme ever made (granted, not the highest encomium), and a cogent, probing, funny critique on celebrity in its downalator phase.

2008 November 6, Richard Corliss, “Jean Claude Van Damme in JCVD.”, in Time:

To the presidential politics of it: For the first time in months, the president looks like he's on the Uppalator, not the Downalator.

2012 June 29, Peggy Noonan, “Noonan: Obama Has a Good Day”, in The Wall Street Journal:

“He’s an enormous star who is on what I call the ‘down-alator’ of his career,” Wilson said. “He’s about to step off the same cliff Eddie Murphy stepped off about 10 years ago. Eddie Murphy has never come back, and Murphy is more talented.”

2013 February 23, “Razzies put bite on ‘Twilight’ as worst picture”, in AP News:

(humorous, informal, rare) an escalator going downwards


AuDHD

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Toph has AuDHD, Autism and ADHD mashed together. Besides all of the self-explanatory things these two factors entail, folks with this diagnosis have a different way of thinking. In Toph's own words, her "autistic brain has to learn by observation" as she does not pick up on social cues the way folks outside the spectrum do. She learns them by observing patterns.

2022 July 6, Robertas Lisickis, Monika Pašukonytė, “"I've Been Asking My Male Friends To Do Something – Watch If The First Response To Everything A Woman Tells You Is To Refute, Say No, Or Something Negative"”, in Bored Panda, archived from the original on 2022-08-15:

Antekeier said that the ADHD medication that she takes has helped her immensely in school and with socializing, and accepts it now as a part of her autism. In her bio on TikTok, where she posts advocacy and information about her diagnosis, she self-describes as having "audhd."

2022 December 26, Jake Johnson, “A woman with autism was misdiagnosed for years — here are 3 subtle signs she now realizes went unnoticed”, in Insider, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

In AuDHD, special interest may change more rapidly than for those who are only autistic, Neff said. "It may last only a couple of months, but the intensity of the special interest remains the same," she added.

2023 April 25, Laura Newberry, “Autism and ADHD often go hand-in-hand. What’s it like to have ’AuDHD’?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-03:

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder#Noun

(informal) The combination of autism and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).


fabotherapeutic

(medicine) Of an antivenom: making use of fragment antigen-binding.


Quechumaran

(linguistics) Of or relating to a proposed language family that unites Quechua and Aymara.


Levittown

Any of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States by William J. Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons, for returning veterans after World War II.


trimensional

It is owing to this fundamental fact that the two retinal images of the same trimensional object are slightly different from each other, and this difference is technically called lateral disparity.

1920, Hubert Gruender, An Introductory Course in Experimental Psychology: […], volume I, Chicago, I.L.: Loyola University Press, page 175:

Sutt indicated the trimensional star-map on the table. He adjusted the controls and a cluster of some half-dozen stellar systems blazed red.

1944 August, Isaac Asimov, “The Big and the Little”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XXXIII, number 6, page 8:

Photographic aggregates, as stated previously, can be made which produce single images with all the attributes of stereoscopic vision and which the writer termed "trimensional images." […] Trimensional pictures, the writer is certain, will replace the present geometric pictures as a matter of course. The trimensional perspective will lend a touch of amazing reality to photographs and reproductions of any and all kinds whatsoever.

1949 August, Theodore Nakken, “The Great Enigma: The Stereoscopic Perspective”, in International Projectionist, volume 24, number 8, New York, N.Y.: International Projectionist Publishing Co., Inc., →OCLC, page 25:

Haskell turned to the captain's desk, studied the trimensional photograph of an Ermesian native. A big creature—over seven feet tall—and heavy, with thick, short legs, hairy torso, long muscular arms terminating in broad, flat hands with multi-jointed fingers tipped with retractile, vermilion-dyed claws.

1950 August, Bernard I. Kahn, “A Pinch of Culture”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XLV, page 90, column 1:

Since Sam had another son who was about three years old, he was interested in the quality of children's fare on television. He could see that my trimensional animation process would be perfect for children's films.

1986, Art Clokey, “Foreward”, in Gumby: The Authorized Biography of the World's Favorite Clayboy, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 2, column 1:

A trimensional scan showed only cuts, bruises and a small fracture in her kneecap. All of the injuries were easily treated.

1996, W[illiam] R[och] Thompson, Infiltrator, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 223:

(chiefly science fiction) Three-dimensional.


papple

Pyrus pyrifolia
Pyrus pyrifolia#Translingual

Either of two closely related fruits, both pears with apple-like traits.

The apple pear, Pyrus pyrifolia, sometimes known as the Chinese pear.

The Chinese white pear, Pyrus × bretschneideri, originally derived from the above.


outerthickness

(graph theory) The minimum number of outerplanar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.


monthsary

“It's…our monthsary?” / “Is that a question?” / “Of course not!” / She covered her mouth with her hand so I wouldn't see her laugh. “It's not our monthsary.”

2018 [2017], KenDaniel [Kenneth Olanday], The Conspiration of the Universe, Mandaluyong City: Summit Books, →ISBN, page 189:

(chiefly Philippines, informal) Synonym of monthiversary.


begpacking

The practice of begging for money while backpacking, in order to fund one's travels.


architextuality

en-noun

architextuality (countable and uncountable, plural architextualities)

Blend of architecture + textuality? Coined by Gérard Genette.

These architextualities, in turn, replicate the metrics and asymmetrical geometries of say the city or a philosophy.

2008, Mary Valentis, Tara P. Monastero, Paula Yablonsky, TechKnowledgies, page 20:

Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.

2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:

The categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work.


touron

I peeled off my trencher and looped it through the shoulderstrap of my greatpurse. The youngest pickers eyed me wantonly. But they soon spotted me as a native and went back to hustling the tourons.

1986, Charles Fernandez, “The Salvaging of Santa Claus”, in Popular Fiction by Oregon Authors, Eugene, O.R.: A Is A Literary Services, →ISBN, page 63:

I'd followed a station wagon jam-packed with tourons from New Hampshire all the way out Highway 130, and it pleased me when they slowed to a sedate twenty miles per hour as soon as they passed the town's boundary line, which meant they'd seen the Harry Starbranch unmanned traffic-control device and responded accordingly.

1995, Gregory Bean, No Comfort in Victory, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 35:

In the morning the police sharpsters hacked their way through my screen door with machetes, two hysterical tourons in tow. I was just going to point out where they could find the perpetrator of the previous night's driving atrocities, out playing in the sand on the beach, when the touron woman screamed That's the monster! The touron couple were shouting and pointing at me, ace bandages and bloody gauze around their necks.

1998, Mark Richard, “Fun at the Beach”, in Charity: Stories, New York, N.Y. […]: Doubeday, →ISBN, page 63:

"I gotta slow down a little," Tyra said. "Business hasn't been great. You know so many folks are losing their jobs and things won't pick up till the winter tourons get here."

2017, Mary Sojourner, “Cyndra Won't Get out of the Truck”, in The Talker: Short Stories, Salt Lake City, U.T.: Torrey House Press, →ISBN, page 117:

(park ranger slang) A tourist who acts in an ignorant or idiotic manner.


greenhushing

greenhushing (usually uncountable, plural not attested)

Blend of greenwashing + hushing coined by American brand strategist Jerry Stifelman in a blog for the consulting agency TreeHugger published the 2nd of March 2008.

coinage

A tendency of a company’s marketing to be quiet about its sustainability not to be charged with greenwashing.


Quanglican

A person who holds to both Quaker and Anglican traditions.


nerdity test

(Internet, informal) An online purity test to gauge the taker's nerdiness.


laugh-in

After Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, an American sketch comedy television program that began in 1967. Blend of laugh + love-in or similar, from the hippy protests popular at the time.

Still another alternative is to tape programs off the air. Or tape lessons or laugh-ins with your buddies.

1969, Boys' Life, volume 59, number 11, page 12:

Unlike most laugh-ins, the set-up welcomes boozed-up hecklers and positively encourages audiences to waylay the four performers, who each have half an hour to fill.


(automotive) The industry promulgated standard for DC fast charging, in North America, a combination of the Type 1 AC charging standard connector, additional DC conductor pins, and the CCS protocol.


(automotive) The European Union legally defined standard for public DC fast charging, a combination of the Type 2 AC charging standard connector, additional DC conductor pins, and the CCS protocol.


victicrat

Does this country have a race problem or are we all held hostage to a "victicrat" mentality?

2000, Larry Elder, The Ten Things You Can't Say in America, page 4:

(US politics) One who espouses a victim mentality, especially believing that every negative situation in their life is brought about due to their race.


Perthonality

This Saturday come disco under the mistletoe to the smooth sounds of some of Perth's finest DJs, and one Perthonality who has never DJed before… Exploder a.k.a^([sic]) filmmaker Jimmy Jack mans ones and twos for his debut, backed up by party platterers Amnesia, Boy Crazy Stacey and Petrosex 'til 1am.

2010 December 9, “MembersOnly: 9–15 December 2010”, in The Drum Media, number 217, Perth, WA: Street Press Australia, page 48:

Everyone's favourite eclectic Perthonality Tomas Ford is once again setting out to perform his twisted spy thriller Stop Killing People in Edinburgh this year.

2014 June 11, “Anything's Pozible”, in The Music, number 42, Perth, WA: Street Press Australia, page 8:

Pandemonium at the city's newest Spudshed on Thursday reveals the soft spot Perth hearts hold for owner Tony Galati. [see title]

2015 November 12, Emma Young, “Perthonality Tony Galati gets rock-star welcome at Morley Spudshed opening”, in WAtoday:

We're currently working closely with Famous Sharron – a local ‘Perthonality’ who's very famous for ‘nothing at all’ – with tonnes of exciting bits in the pipeline for the Fringe World Festival, […]

2018 Summer, Serena Horrocks, quotee, “A Mini Marvel”, in Marque, Northbridge, WA: Premium Publishers, page 17:

“It was even the residence of a Perthonality or two and would have many stories to tell – a highlight would be an intimate, private concert by Rod Stewart in the early 1980s.”

2018 September 21, “7 Dorking Road, City Beach – Expressions of interest by October 3”, in PerthNow:

Attendees, we have confirmed, included none other than the colourful Perthonality Tony Galati, better known by his royal moniker, the West Australian Spud King.

2022 May 12, Michael Roddan, “Pauline Hanson pulls Spud King for WA fundraiser”, in Australian Financial Review:

A former Eagles favourite and Perthonality – especially here around the 6PR offices – will be getting the boots on once again to help out the Eagle’s WAFL side.

2023 April 20, “Former legend puts the boots on once again to help ailing Eagles”, in 6PR:

(humorous) A local celebrity within Perth, Western Australia.


Shottingham

(UK, informal, derogatory) The city of Nottingham, England in reference to its historical high gun crime rate.


mangagement ring

en-noun

mangagement ring (plural mangagement rings)

Most men, jewelers find, move their first ring to their right hand in lieu of the stacking that is traditional for most women. Others may simply allow the mangagement ring to play both roles and have it polished up for the big day.

2014 February 14, Samantha Zabell, “The Rise of the Man-gagement Ring”, in The Atlantic:

“As a feminist I actually quite like the idea of mangagement rings, as otherwise it's like we are property of men with the ring ‘branding’ us, while they are free to skip around appearing unengaged,” 30-year-old Helen explained to The Independent.

2017 August 30, Rachel Hosie, “Why millennial men are wearing engagement rings”, in The Independent:

(neologism) An engagement ring worn by a man.


drilldo

WHATS WRONG WITH HER ? HAVE I GOT BODY ODOUR OR IS SHE BORED WITH MY DRILLDO

1971, The Canadian Forum, Volume 51, volume 51, Survival Foundation, page 20:

A Fucksaw is a hand-held modified jigsaw tipped with a dildo and is sometimes called a drilldo.

[2012 February 28, Wally Zubric, The ‘Men's Only' Book of Toilet Trivia, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 54:

There's even something called a 'Drilldo,' which looks like a power drill dong attachment, which is a thing Miriam imagines nobody ever wants to see used, except for dumb fucking dudes who don't know or care how to press a woman's pleasure buttons.

[2013 September 24, Various Authors, Clare Toohey, The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:

All this underlines that, in the FuckingMachines videos, what is coded "male" and what is coded "mechanical" is constantly blurred. Moreover, there are frequent scenes in which machines such as the “Drilldo” or the “Fucksall” do not actually work on their own but have to be secured by a helping hand of someone who works on the set.

[2013 December 5, S. Schaschek, Pornography and Seriality: The Culture of Producing Pleasure, Springer, →ISBN:

The drilldo started to turn slowly. “This is just a test. Before I apply a full treatment to this wet hole, I need to check the fit for maximum friction.” Lexie shuddered, trepidation and hunger driving her adrenaline higher.

2018 May 21, Kate Allure, Laying Pipe, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

“They made a drilldo!” someone shouted. Mittens shouted into the vent near the ceiling from her upper bunk, “They loose-lipped. They be bragging about how they use it on each other.

2020 December 11, Karen Andrea Campbell, Falling: Hard Lessons and the Redemption of the Woman Next Door, Book Baby, →ISBN:


Eye-Q

Test yourself on how acutely you observe the little things about everyday items. If you can answer correctly all eight questions below, you have earned a “genius” rating for taking notice. Six right means your Eye-Q is definitely superior. 1. You ought to know what the Great Seal of the United States looks like because you’ve seen it so many times. Where?

1982, More Tests and Teasers, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published 1983, →ISBN, page 110:

HOW'S YOUR "EYE-Q?" Your "Eye-Q"--the ability to see beyond the obvious--may be very important in promoting safety by eliminating poor housekeeping as a factor in accidents.

TEST YOUR MIND’S EYE-Q! […] Here’s another Puzzicle that tests what might be called your Eye-Q. What do the three images above depict?

1988, Alan Robbins, Puzzicles, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, cover and page 86:

(nonce word) A score measuring visual ability.


metapedian

Users also move among different communities as they move from being a new user to an active user, or choose at any stage to exit the platform. Indeed it is not uncommon for many active users and metapedians to suffer burnout.

2015, Kim Osman, Wikipedia: Access and participation in an open encyclopaedia (thesis), Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland University of Technology, page 99:

(Wikimedia jargon) A Wikipedia editor who focuses on the social side of the project, such as participating in discussions or community events, rather than editing articles and contributing content.


MLOps

Blend of ML (“machine learning”) + DevOps.

blend

The goal of MLOps is to minimize the technical friction to get the model from an idea to production in the shortest possible time with high-quality predictive power and with as little risk as possible.

2021, Hien Luu, Beginning Apache Spark 3, 2nd edition, Apress, →ISBN:

(machine learning) A paradigm that aims to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production reliably and efficiently.


tranime

Coordinate term: manime

Why do trannies post anime everywhere? Their github avatar is ALWAYS degenerate tranime shit.

2019 December 12, anonymous author, 4chan, /g/:

Learn basic programming, degenerate tranime weeb

2019 December 25, anonymous author, 4chan, /g/:

None of you will ever be a real woman no matter how much tranime you watch.

2020 December 2, anonymous author, 4chan, /r9k/:

daily reminder that tranime depicts men in excessively feminine manner and thereby normalizes and promotes such behavior, convincing mentally ill men that they can be cute anime boy/girl s too

2021 August 26, anonymous author, 4chan, /qa/:

Sorry I don't get your references because I don't watch tranime

2022 February 20, anonymous author, 4chan, /his/:

(Internet slang, 4chan, derogatory, offensive) Anime, especially when viewed as being disproportionately liked by transgender people.


screenshort

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Kind of counterintuitively, Screenshorts demonstrate why the 140 character limit is vital. If people began posting massive chunks of text to Twitter, it would no longer be easy to scan. But the Screenshort, working side-by-side with in-line image previews, works perfectly. Click to enlarge and all that.

2014 December 19, Mat Honan, “The Rise Of The Screenshort™”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 2023-05-30:

We've heard such rumors before, but this one just got a lot more plausible thanks to a cryptic screenshort from Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.

2016 January 5, Klint Finley, “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Hints Its 140 Character Limit Could End”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

No more screenshorts

2016 April 12, Casey Newton, “You can now share quoted text directly to Facebook”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:

(social media, rare) A screenshot of text posted to social media.


Memphibian

(humorous) A person from Memphis, Tennessee


CoHort

Blend of CoHo (“Colleen Hoover”) + cohort.

To the CoHorts for your unrivaled support.

2014, Colleen Hoover, “Acknowledgments”, in Ugly Love, Atria Paperback, →ISBN, page 324:

Fans — they call themselves “CoHorts” — get tattoos inspired by her work and vote her books to the top of reader polls.

[2018 July 22, Michael Merschel, “Superstar romance author Colleen Hoover talks about her Texas town and unlikely bookstore”, in The Dallas Morning News:

However, this summer, Hoover—affectionately called CoHo by her huge fan base—gained a whole new legion of CoHorts thanks to the viral nature of social media. […] Lauren [McBride] tells Parade. "I've read nine of her books thus far and consider myself an official CoHort.[…]" […] While I am not a die-hard CoHort, I have read several of Hoover’s books and she is, no doubt, a brilliant writer. […] So, dear readers, are you ready to become a CoHort? We have put together a comprehensive list of Colleen Hoover’s books in order, […]

2022 January 23, Michelle Parkerton, “Why Author Colleen Hoover Is Trending on TikTok—And All the CoHo Books That You Should Read!”, in Parade, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

Her fans (they call themselves CoHorts) point to these unexpected pivots as part of Hoover's appeal.

[2022 January 24, Stephanie Merry, “On TikTok, crying is encouraged. Colleen Hoover gets the job done.”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 24, page C10:

Hoover is affectionately called Coho^([sic]) by her enormous fan base, who refer to themselves as CoHorts!

[2022 May, Emily Evans, “Women Authors Shaping Literature”, in YOUR Williamson, page 92:

“It Starts With Us” had been so eagerly desired by her admirers — CoHorts, some call themselves — that she broke a personal rule: Don’t let “outside influences” determine her next book.

2022 August 26, Hillel Italie, “Mix of literary, commercial books due in fall”, in The Post-Star, volume 118, number 279, page A7:

AS A SELF-PROCLAIMED CoHort — Colleen Hoover superfan — I have read 17 out of 23 of her love-story thrillers. […] She has secured her spot as a New York Times bestselling author by teaching us CoHorts to expect the unexpected.

2022 September 6, Addie Moore, “Hoover’s hierarchy”, in The Harbinger, volume LXV, number 1, Shawnee Mission East High School, page 23:

Her fans, who are mostly women, call themselves CoHorts and post gushing reactions to her books’ devastating climaxes. […] The encounter often lasted less than a minute, but for CoHorts, meeting her is akin to making a religious pilgrimage.

2022 October 23, Alexandra Alter, “Can’t make it up: Savvy Hoover rules bestseller list”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, volume 74, number 296, page E15:

COHORTS RISE […] These wild stats aren’t a surprise if you ventured onto BookTok or Goodreads: Hoover has a vocal (and fiercely devoted) following with CoHorts forcing her books to occupy seven of the ten top spots in this week’s New York Times Paperback Trade Fiction best-seller list.

2022 October 25, Zoe Guy, “Colleen Hoover Is Keeping Printers in Business”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 2022-10-25:

The Texas writer’s page-turning novels and devoted army of ‘CoHorts’ have made her BookTok royalty – and one of the world’s biggest selling authors […] Hoover says she doesn’t want to be confined to a genre, but most of the books could be described as romances or thrillers, and it is clear that her fans want and expect something specific from a Colleen Hoover book – they call her CoHo, and themselves Cohorts.^([sic]) […] It’s unlikely she’ll drop off the bestseller charts any time soon. At least, not if her ever devoted CoHorts have anything to do with it.

2022 October 26, Moira Redmond, “Colleen Hoover is a phenomenon. No wonder It Starts With Us already needs reprinting”, in inews.co.uk, DMG Media, archived from the original on 2022-10-26:

Hoover’s story is an inspiring testament to hard work, self-belief and engaging with your audience, which she has done for the duration of her career, interacting with her army of “CoHorts” on TikTok and Facebook.

2022 November 6, John Warner, “Publishing has not seen a phenomenon like ‘It Starts with Us’ in years”, in Chicago Tribune:

Colleen’s ‘CoHorts’ are devout. Effusive. And they live for the drama.

2023 January 1, Liesl Robertson, “The RISE and RISE of BOOKTOK”, in Fairlady:

But when Hoover surprised her CoHorts with news “It Ends With Us” was becoming a coloring book on Jan. 10, fans questioned whether the dramatic novel could survive the adaptation into other mediums — and whether it should make the leap at all, given its themes of domestic abuse and trauma.

2023 January 12, Anahy Diaz, Lindsay Lowe, “Colleen Hoover responds to coloring book controversy: 'I hear you and I agree with you'”, in Yahoo!, archived from the original on 2023-01-16:

Hoover’s first book, “Slammed,” was pushed to the bestseller list by an army of digital followers who called themselves “CoHorts.”

[2023 January 22, Bill Finley, “Novelist rides the romance wave”, in Arizona Daily Star, page E6:

COLLEEN’S COHORTS

2023 February 23, “Colleen’s CoHorts”, in You:

Now that Hoover’s rise to stardom is over, the rising number of Hoover’s haters are beginning to overwhelm “CoHorts,” the name given to her die-hard fans.

2023 February 28, Chelsea Peng, “CoHo Hate Club”, in The Pingry Record, volume CXLVIII, number III, Pingry School, page 4:

Hoover has over 2 million followers on Instagram and a dedicated fan base that calls themselves CoHorts which, according to me, is a new phenomenon in literature.

[2023 May 26, Harsh Aditya, “I stepped inside the cult of Colleen Hoover for a hot minute”, in Vogue India, archived from the original on 2023-05-26:

There’s no denying her impact: Book communities on Instagram (CoHorts, as they call themselves) have gone head-to-head ranking their favorite CoHo books (yep, that's their name for her), while Barnes & Noble and indie bookstores alike have tables dedicated to her work.

[2023 May 31, Shivani Dubey, “Are Colleen Hoover Fans Ready to Face the Truth About Her Books?”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 2023-05-31:

Across the globe you'll find millions of 'CoHorts' (Colleen's fan base) singing the praises of their beloved author with fan accounts, blogs and newsletters dedicated to the characters brought to life in her books. […] 'CoHorts' and romance novel aficionados alike became instantly attached to the character of Lily.

2023 June 20, Lisa Hamilton, “'Did they even read the book?' Why people are so angry about Blake Lively's new movie.”, in Mamamia, archived from the original on 2023-06-22:

(fandom slang) A fan of American author Colleen Hoover (born 1979).


lollerskates

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LOLLERSKATES!

2003 November 5, flashgorman, “Bored”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):

I don't trust fortune cookies anymore. Last time I opened one, it just said "Hahahahahahaha lol lollerskates rotflfmao" Then I checked the back for the lottery numbers, it just said "Yeah right"

2008 April 13, The Dude, “Remember 3 months from this date”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet):

^^^^ MUHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAH LOLLERSKATES

2010 April 29, YumYumPandaburger, “Ortiz wins a fight!”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet):

(Internet slang, dated) A fanciful variation of LOL (“laughing out loud”), often associated with an ASCII GIF of a stick figure rollerskating on the word "LOL".


lollercoaster

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You are a pathetic loser. LOLLERCOASTER

2010 December 27, Uncle Max, “Kindle: Amazon's best selling product of all time.”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):

Only a lunatic or a retard threatens someone on the internet and expects anything but a Lollercoaster.

2012 April 16, Buster Norris, “Were you paying attention Buster? Still think you're safe??? Think again.”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

Triple check your bubbling. I can't tell you how many very smart kids I've worked with who have lost points to bubbling errors on the SAT. It's unbelievable to me. And they always just laugh it off! "Oops, I misbubbled, LOL." "Oops, I threw my shoe at you, LOL. Oops I threw my other one too! LOLLERCOASTER!!!1one"

2014, Mike McClenathan, PWN the SAT: Math Guide, 3rd edition, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, page 28:

(Internet slang, rare) A fanciful variation of LOL (“laughing out loud”).


complextro

Blend of complex + electro [2010], coined by American DJ Porter Robinson.

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

A subgenre of electro house electronic dance music with intricate glitchy basslines and chiptune effects.


lagerita

To channel Fogerty in his drinking days feel free to go that route, but if that's too rough for you, the classic beer and tequila cocktail: the lagerita.

2022, How to Drink Like a Rock Star […] , Apollo Publishers, →ISBN:

A cocktail made from lager beer and tequila.


documemoir

A memoir taking the form of a documentary.


simulpub

en-verb

simulpub (third-person singular simple present simulpubs, present participle simulpubbing, simple past and past participle simulpubbed)

simulpubs (present singular third-person)
simulpubbing (participle present)
simulpubbed (participle past)
simulpubbed (past)

Probably a blend of simulcast + publish.

To simultaneously publish manga in multiple markets.


cluebie

I've been out of it so long now that if you gave me an axe I probably wouldn't know which end to use to chop down a tree, but I still know enough of the basics to scare the cluebies off and to set up some protection against the majority of the people who think downloading "toolz" like WinNuke makes them a threat to national security.

2000 June 3, Magic, “MT ?”, in alt.wow-sucks (Usenet):

New builders pick up code cues from their peers in the pits, and newbies who are quick studies of this code soon find themselves respected as cluebies.

2001, Alison Bing, Erin Conley, Robot Riots: The Good Guide to Bad Bots, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, page 125:

So, that's my basic explanation without investing any real thought into it. Do you think that cluebies would start to get the picture from this or should there be pictures also?

2002 June 6, HarleyDude®, “how do I setup a new newsgroup ?”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet):

Considering that APEWS is only used by a handful of cluebies running mail servers in their attics for 5 family friends and 3 cats, does anyone besides the NANAE peanut gallery actually think the game of pretending people are blocked and must do things to 'get off' APEWS is anything but a game of lying to try to rope other people into the fight?

2007 August 1, Steve Linford, “Help! APEWS blocked the World!”, in news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting (Usenet):

(Internet slang, dated) A new or inexperienced user who is more knowledgeable than a newbie; a newbie who "has a clue".


delie

delie (third-person singular simple present delies, present participle delying, simple past and past participle delied)

delies (present singular third-person)
delying (participle present)
delied (participle past)
delied (past)

Joe Biden continues to delie about his business dealings with son Hunter.

(neologism, nonstandard) to deny and lie simultaneously


caramboxin

Averrhoa carambola
Averrhoa carambola#Translingual

(organic chemistry) A toxin found in the star fruit (Averrhoa carambola).


globital

Blend of global + digital, coined by Anna Reading, who originally spelled it globytal, influenced by byte.

[…] is developing a globital memory field that cuts across conventionally understood binaries of the communicative versus the cultural, the individual versus the social, or the national versus the transnational.

2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva, Memory, Conflict and New Media, page 23:

In conditions of unlimited global-digital 'web-memory' (labelled by one critic a 'globital age'), social remembering and forgetting have become functions of algorithm-based search technologies that mine data from users […]

2018, Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance, page 625:

Both global and digital; relating to the use of computer technology by the international masses, especially with regard to the recording of human memories.


sexpedition

Our upcoming Canadian sexpedition is not only about losing my virginity. No way, man. Sexual intercourse, that biological feat of penile performance, will—with an official testosterone stamp of approval—mark my entry into manhood.

2001 March 5, Ken Baker, Man Made: A Memoir, Penguin, →ISBN:

When I am asked how I first learned to adventure off-road using a motorcycle, whether it was from being enrolled in a riding school or from racing, I answer with some chagrin mixed with a dark memory: "It was the result of a motorcycle sexpedition, my first sordid adventure affair."

2014 April 15, Gregory Frazier, chapter 1, in Down and Out in Patagonia, Kamchatka, and Timbuktu: Greg Frazier's Round and Round and Round the World Motorcycle Journey, Motorbooks, →ISBN, page 19:

Finally, finally, I get the door open. Thank God, because I was about to say fuck it and go with the full showcase sexpedition. Walking me backward through the doorway, Diego has his mouth on mine again, while Rigo takes my key out of the door and closes it.

2018 May 21, C.C. Wylde, chapter 4, in Fight Twice for Me (Two Stepbrothers Are Better Than One), Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:


flightmare

Blend of flight + nightmare. Compare also frightmare.

She glanced, for the first time since this flightmare started, to the man sitting in the aisle seat beside her.

2011, Joe Shrader, Eden Falls, page 118:

I was so grateful to see my children that day, and even Jake was a sight for sore eyes after the “flightmare” from hell.

2015, Mary Helen Hensley, Promised by Heaven:

The flightmare continues as I elbow my way through chuckleheads in pleated khakis or gamey business suits with phones clipped to their belts, parents who are wrangling several unruly kids hopped up on M&Ms, and reunited couples engaged in serious tonsil hockey.

2015, Jennifer Worick, Things I Want to Punch in the Face, page 15:

(travel, aviation) An unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.


Plebbit

quoted in 2020, John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Go look at plebbit [reddit], they're fucking hysterical. Screaming for forced vaccinations.


sexpo

Though most sexpo exhibs were reluctant to talk last week, it's clear that porno jitters are again vibrating in Manhattan, this time generated not by threatened police action, but by a series of anonymous bomb threats which gained sudden credibility last Tues night (9) when two pipe bombs exploded during performances at the Doll Theatre at Seventh Ave. at 48th St. and at Hollywood Twin Theatre on Eighth Ave. near 48th.

1971, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session [-Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session], Part 11, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 6894:

3:45-5:45pm - there's a sexpo. dildos, vibrators, costumes, plastic vaginas, whips, cuffs, sex games, […]

During one of my mother's recent visits to Australia to see me, I suggested we go to the sexpo exhibition. She agreed, although without knowing exactly what she was agreeing to.

2016 August 1, Maria Katsonis, Lee Kofman, Rebellious Daughters, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Some surgeons in Australia promote their practices at annual sexpo exhibitions held in the main cities. Breast and buttock augmentation and female genital cosmetic surgery, the latter often advertised as a “designer vagina,” predominate at such events, with photographs of the various body parts labeled with phrases such as “enhance your pleasure” (for genital cosmetic surgery), “enhance your assets,” and “tighten yout tush.”

2021 May 4, Lindy McDougall, The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 72:

An exhibition of sex toys or other sexual goods and services.


harasshole

The blonde touched Max's arm. "It's all right . . . he can't fire me, 'cause I quit. . . . I'm tired of workin' for this sexual-harasshole." "Good call," Original Cindy said. Max shrugged and put the guy down. He was leaning over the counter, red-faced, choking, when the three women strolled out onto the street together.

2002 November 5, Max Allan Collins, Dark Angel: Before the Dawn, volume 1, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 100:

It was just one of those moments where you're a harasshole because you can be. Because even though I was a swollen, sullen, man-hating self-loather, I knew I was still hotter than anything a smelly hippie could hope to have.

2013 May 31, John Vorhaus, The Texas Twist, Prospect Park Books, →ISBN, page 168:

I have a trove, including such treasures as sadlarious, disastrophe, cumulolingus, and the very much needed harasshole, which describes a guy – you know the guy – the one with the authority hard-on who always gives you such grief.

2013 October 2, John Vorhaus, Comedy Writing 4 Life, Bafflegab Books, →ISBN:

Screen Grabs. If a harasshole comes at you via text message or social media, screen grab everything for your records, ensuring that the phone number or social media handle is in frame.

2021 April 6, Adrienne Lawrence, Staying in the Game: The Playbook for Beating Workplace Sexual Harassment, Penguin, →ISBN, page 126:

(slang, derogatory, Canada, US) An objectionable harassing person.


boregasm

en-noun

boregasm (countable and uncountable, plural boregasms)

Hates himself because his wife Hattie (after thirty years of marriage) continually complains that he can only give her a Boregasm.

2004, David Samson, Men Who Hate Themselves - And the Women Who Agree with Them, FUNNYGUY.COMed, →ISBN, page 87:

Everyone started laughing and, just like that, we all went from being on the verge of a boregasm to off the nut!

2017 January 10, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 85:

“Keep it up, I might just have a boregasm.” “Boregasm?” Rian repeated skeptically. “It's like when you reach peak boredom. Which I'm going to. Any second now.”

2018 August 6, Jess Anastasi, The Empty Night, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:

But when she starts talking about insurance, my eyes cross as I achieve boregasm. Insurance-speak is not for the faint of heart.

2019 January 8, Melissa Leong, Happy Go Money: Spend Smart, Save Right & Enjoy Life, ECW Press, →ISBN:

(slang) The result of or act of reaching the apex or climax of boredom; filling one’s capacity for boredom to the extreme boundary.


snoregasm

snoregasm (countable and uncountable, plural snoregasms)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-snoregasm.wav

Blend of snore + orgasm, or snore + -gasm.

That night I have a snoregasm. I might have dreamt about Irene. I don't want to throw my underpants in the laundry, because she might see the dried stain.

2014 August 7, Jakob Ejersbo, Liberty, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN:

Both parents were still in bed, the mother as quiet as a corpse, the father snoring so loudly that anyone listening might have thought he was having a “snoregasm.” Clifford wrote his parents a note: “I have left to explore Tucumcari while the weather is cool.”

2014 November 14, Anthology, Tremors - Short Fiction By California Writers, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2023-07-02:

Or episodes where the sleeper has sex without waking up: sexsomnia – or, as some call it, snoregasm. This is not the same as a wet dream, which is not classified as a sleep disorder. Parasomnic episodes may seem dramatic but they are almost always harmless.

2020 September 24, Anders Bortne, Sleepless: A Thousand Wakeful Nights, One Solution, Sandstone Press Ltd, →ISBN:


Orkxit

Blend of Orkney + exit. Modelled after Brexit, Grexit, Quexit, etc.

You've heard of Brexit, maybe even Scexit - now the UK might have to prepare for Orkxit. ¶ The Orkney Islands, which lie 20 miles north of the Scottish mainland, have voted to explore "alternative governance" which could include leaving the UK and returning to its Scandic roots with Norway.

2023 July 4, Gina Davidson, “Orkney votes to explore ways to leave UK”, in LBC:

This matters because after the tragicomedies of Brexit and Grexit, the world has been enjoying the spectacle of “Orkxit”. This month it was suggested that the Orkney Islands might like to secede from Britain and become a self-governing territory of Norway.

2023 July 13, “Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway”, in The Economist:

There’s a move in the islands to secede from Britain and join Norway or even Denmark — an Orkxit to follow Brexit.

2023 July 21, “Dinner Party Intel: Gray Lady blows the final whistle”, in Financial Mail:

(UK politics, neologism) The potential transfer of the Orkney Islands from the United Kingdom and Scotland to Norway, reversing its annexation by Scotland in 1472.


celebrappeal

(cricket) An overenthusiastic appeal in the form of a celebration, without waiting for the umpire to give the batter out.


wood wide web

Precisely what is passing between plants through fungal networks is a thorny question for all researches investigating wood wide webs.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 184:

In the forest, there is a “wood wide web” of mycorrhizal fungi that run underground, connecting the trees in a forest, helping them grow and communicate.

The portrayal of fungi-forest symbioses as a 'wood wide web' is in itself a technological image which, as Woods analyses in his contribution to this volume, often hides the mycelium behind the tree: he agrees in this with Jedediah Purdy, who has satirized the inevitability with which, 'after centuries of viewing forests as kingdoms, then as factories (and, along the way, as cathedrals for Romantic sentiment), the 21st century would discover a networked information system under the leaves and humus'.

2022, Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine, Life, Re-Scaled:

(ecology) A mycorrhizal network; a network of fungal hyphae that connect the plants in a region.


fungus comb

This enzyme might be responsible for the degradation of phenolics in the fungus comb.

2006, Helmut König, Ajit Varma, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 346:

The sexual stage of the fungus, the basidiocarp, arises as a pseudorhiza from a fungus comb and continues as a stipe, terminating in a cap with a prominent umbo or perforatorium.

2012, Bozzano G Luisa, Insect-Fungus Interactions, page 74:

Fungus comb also serves as food source, especially in adverse climatic conditions or when food is scarce.

2018, Omkar, Pests and Their Management, page 928:

The termites chew wood into a slurry which they regugitate in fungal gardens, known as the 'fungus comb', by contrast with bees' honeycomb.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 211:

A slurry of masticated or partially digested wood that termites create which is subsequently digested by white rot fungus to produce a byproduct that the termites can eat.


Comcar

Collapsing of Commonwealth Car Service, the service's original name. Formally a blend of Commonwealth + car.

It's an excellent story. Turnbull is telling it in a Comcar, which is driving us from Launceston (where he addressed a Jobs Forum) to Hobart (where he is due to address a dinner).

2009, Annabel Crabb, “Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull”, in Quarterly Essay, number 34, page 15:

The role played by political families in the party, and the inheriting of front-bench seats, has led to gibes that the best way to get ahead in the party is to 'get born in the back of a Comcar'.

2013, Marian Sawer, Gianni Zappalà, “Introduction: Representation in Australian Politics”, in Speaking For The People:

(Australia) One of a fleet of cars, with drivers, maintained by the Australian Government for the transport of politicians and senior officials.


Joever

en-adj

Joever (comparative more Joever, superlative most Joever)

more Joever (comparative)
most Joever (superlative)

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.və(ɹ)/

Blend of Joe + over, in reference to 46th president of the United States Joe Biden. Initially appeared in a 4chan post published October 14, 2020, shortly before the 2020 United States presidential election, to signify the perceived defeat of Joe Biden. Popularized in late 2022 in various memes on Twitter. Repopularized after Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 Presidential race.

here's a prediction for you
it's joever

2020 October 24, anonymous author, 4chan, /pol/:

“It’s Joever,” joked one fan with an attached image of a forlorn President Joe Biden.

2022 December 22, DJ Byrnes, “NFL world reacts to major Russell Wilson change”, in The Comeback, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:

It's Joever. On Saturday, Entertainment Tonight dropped the bombshell news that Taylor Swift and her boyfriend of more than six years, Joe Alwyn, broke up "a few weeks ago," which was subsequently confirmed by People, Page Six, and CNN.

2023 April 10, Brendan Morrow, “The daily gossip: Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were 'talking about marriage' before reported split, Kim Kardashian cast in American Horror Story, and more”, in The Week, archived from the original on 2023-06-19:

The 27-year-old streamer tweeted out a meme collage for the announcement of his new world record, while also tagging Forsen. He shared the meme quote “It’s Joever,” along with his time for the speed run of 16 minutes and 38 seconds.

2023 May 7, Ajitesh Rawat, quoting xQc, “xQc Flexes on Forsen After Taking Back the Crown of Minecraft Record Holder”, in EssentiallySports, archived from the original on 2023-07-20:

Over on Twitter, someone immediately posted, "They even added complicated armor layouts to the alien flesh suits its joever".

2023 May 25, James Troughton, “Gamers Are Divided Over Spider-Man 2's Symbiote Suit”, in TheGamer, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

'Honestly heartbroken babes... Go collect your brother, after this is done... You might want to log out tonight sis... it’s joever for your brother i fear... Your brother is giving LOSER ENERGY. So disrespectful... Tell him sis'.

2023 June 12, Ciara Farmer For Mailonline, “Snoochie Shy rages over Love Island star brother Zachariah's cruel treatment of Catherine... leaving fans urging the DJ to 'go collect her loser sibling'”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-13:

Ah shit, it’s Joever.

2024 February 26, Smii7Yplus, 19:47 from the start, in Worms Moments that End in Disaster:

It’s finally Joever: On Sunday, President Joe Biden announced he's stepping down from the Democratic presidential ticket with a letter to his "fellow Americans," posted on Twitter.

2024 July 21, Kylie Cheung, “It's Joever”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2024-07-21:

(Internet slang, humorous) Done for, finished, cooked.

Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election


fabtastic

fabtastic (comparative more fabtastic, superlative most fabtastic)

more fabtastic (comparative)
most fabtastic (superlative)

A big thank you to all the contributors and hope you fabtastic readers out there enjoy the book.

2005, Cathy Hopkins, “A Note From Us”, in Mates, Dates Guide to Life (Mates, Dates), London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 2:


rockaire

(astronautics, aviation, dated) An air-launched rocket

(astronautics, dated) An airplane-launched space rocket

An air-launched rocket
An airplane-launched space rocket


placial

The Philosophy and Geography Conferences have been designed to promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary conversations on the basis of the spatial/placial component that pervades all landscapes.

2003, Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Tensional Landscapes: The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements, page IX:

In other words, there is a potential for places and placial beings to express the limitless space.

2021, Timothy Tambassi, Marcello Tanca, The Philosophy of Geography, page 111:

(sociology, geography) Relating to places, or to conceptions of place.


Haylor

Though their relationship was brief, Haylor was all anyone who was chronically online during the era of One Direction could talk about for the four months these two were dating.

2023 July 8, Naydeline Mejia, “Taylor Swift And All Of Her Ex-Boyfriends' Body Language, Explained”, in Women's Health:

(slang) The couple consisting of English singer-songwriter Harry Styles and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, together briefly in 2012.


Blackademic

We all have pursued successful careers and are active as academics/aka “Blackademics” (scholars and researchers), musicians (performers, composers and arrangers), media personalities, writers, and teachers, often functioning in more than one of these capacities.

2010, Leonard L. Brown, “Preface”, in Leonard L. Brown, editor, John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page ix:

In the next section I will discuss my experiences being a Blackademic at a historically white institution in the Sociology department.

2020, Chaddrick James-Gallaway, “[Scratching and Surviving: Critical Race Theory and Being a “Blackademic” in the Academy] Stressing Racism’s Permanence Despite Programmatic Resistance, Chaddrick’s Story”, in Vernon Lee Farmer, Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer, editors, Critical Race Theory in the Academy, Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 346:

Next, the first part, Black Lives Matter: Research and Reflections, is a collection of writings about the #BlackLivesMatter movement, digital activism, education, race-based stereotypes, and the personal experiences and stories of Blackademics.

2022, Sarah Jane Blithe, Janell C. Bauer, “Introduction”, in Sarah Jane Blithe, Janell C. Bauer, editors, Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

Female “Blackademics” and Presentation of Self in the Academy: Managing Role Stressors, Navigating Roadblocks, and Managing Impressions Along Career Trajectories

2022, Jennifer T. Butcher, editor, Black Female Leaders in Academia: Eliminating the Glass Ceiling With Efficacy, Exuberance, and Excellence: Eliminating the Glass Ceiling With Efficacy, Exuberance, and Excellence (Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership), IGI Global, →ISBN, page 73:


blackademic

Nick wasn’t what he’d had in mind for Billie. He’d planned on a blackademic just like himself. Herbert was the son of teachers who had instilled their deep love of education into him.

2009, Carleen Brice, Children of the Waters, One World Books, →ISBN, page 44:

It’s about an untenured black professor, a “blackademic,” obsessed with Edgar Allen^([sic]) Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” and the possibility of finding a remote island of pure blackness—the last bastion of the African diaspora—in Antarctica.

2012 March 4, “He’s reading at Writers House”, in Sunday News, 89 years, number 25, page E4:

My uncle, Kevin Gaines, first demonstrated what being a blackademic meant. He wrote aspirational scholarship, introduced me to his colleagues, read and graciously critiqued my work, and answered all my questions about the professoriate.

2017, Alisha Gaines, “Acknowledgments”, in Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

Alternative letter-case form of Blackademic.


national serviceman

en-noun

national serviceman (plural national servicemen)


through the wazoo

Probably a blend of through the roof + out the wazoo.


bottleham

Bottleham have bottled it again, having lost to Diogo Jota’s late 94th minute winner.

(humorous) A name given to Tottenham because they seem to always bottle when that they have a good chance of winning something (e.g. trophies or matches)


Angeball

Blend of Ange (Postecoglou) + (foot)ball

The style of football (soccer) associated with renowned Greek-Australian coach Ange Postecoglou.


momarazzi

Her mother was snapping pictures with wild abandon. When Cindy apologized for the "momarazzi," Night saw again the real Cindy—the one who needed to act, not just for the pay, but for others to hear her.

2006, Michael Bamberger, The Man Who Heard Voices, Gotham Books, →ISBN, pages 129–130:

The momarazzi describes moms who take so many pictures of their kids that they have a new album for every day, week, or month of their lives. They're documoms who specialize in photos of everyday life, like bath time or playtime or naptime. Momarazzis can't even determine which pictures are worth posting on Facebook anymore because they have hundreds and hundreds to choose from.

2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents: The Jaw-Dropping, Self-Indulgent, and Occasionally Rage-Inducing World of Parent Overshare, New York, N.Y.: Pedigree Books, →ISBN, page 186:

I'd made a mental note to step my fashion game up a notch moving forward, and bought a cute new chevron-print blouse before I left the store with my order in hand. All I needed was a few more hot stores like that—especially ones the Main Line momarazzi frequented—and I'd be set.

2015, Kristin Contino, The Legacy of Us: A Novel, Tempe, A.Z.: SparkPress, →ISBN, page 171:

And later, Ross glaring into the camera, impatient with me, the Momarazzi—Enough with the pictures!—a string of pink taffy hanging out of his mouth.

2017, Claudia Hunter Johnson, Hurtling Toward Happiness: A Mother and Teenage Son's Road Trip From Blues to Bonding in a Really Small Car, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 66:

"We call her the momarazzi because she takes too many photos, and I really thought we were going to get busted," Wilson continues. "Like someone was going to report us for just like driving really slowly up to kids and taking their photo, but we're just two Australian chicks wanting to learn about trick-or-treating."

2018 October 31, Paige Gawley, “Ellen DeGeneres Deserves the Final Rose for Her 'Bachelor' Contestant Costume”, in ET Online, archived from the original on 2023-03-24:

(humorous) A mother who takes an excessive amount of photos of her children.


Blend of chick (“woman, female”) + hax0r (“hacker”).

Coordinate term: hax0r

It’s only natural that a healthy young man would want to be liked by a hot chix0r like her.

2015, Kamiya Yuu, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 1:


Barbenheimer

Though unions with workers in digital media or with companies that offer online shopping have invoked the idea of a digital picket line, the actors’ and writers’ unions have not called on consumers to stop watching television and movies on streaming services or to cancel their “Barbenheimer” tickets.

2023 July 19, Claire Moses, “Can I Watch ‘Barbenheimer’ Despite the Hollywood Strikes?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

(humorous, neologism) The simultaneous theatrical release on July 21, 2023 of two blockbuster films of contrasting genres: Barbie, a fantasy comedy about the eponymous fashion doll, and Oppenheimer, a biographical thriller about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.


disleading

en-adj

disleading (comparative more disleading, superlative most disleading)

more disleading (comparative)
most disleading (superlative)

The geographers map is the exaggeration of certain scientific facts that are apt to prove disleading to the unskilied eye.

1897, The Atlanta Constitution 1897-10-17: Vol 30, page 27:

A seed is misbranded if the package or label bears any statement, design or device which is false or disleading in any particular.

1913, Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, page 425:

Direct Service and Trackage Oil is charged with disleading advertising.

1935, National Petroleum News 1935-10-23: Vol 27 Iss 43, page 23:

Bordo maintained the word ‘partisan’ in the second clause of the resolution was unnecessary and disleading because the stands taken by CUS were political in the sense that every organization takes political stands.

The problem is an epidemic of mis- and disleading content made to scam your attention {...} for monetary gain alone.

2023, Kyle Hill, 12s from the start, in YouTube’s Science Scam Crisis:

(nonstandard, malapropism) Alternative form of misleading.


Kravis

Megan described Kravis’s vibe to Glamour, saying, “They’re magnetic. So nobody’s really interacting with them too much, because they’re just stuck. They’re stuck together like this.[…]”

2022 April 27, Mehera Bonner, “Megan Fox Explains Why She and MGK Don’t Have Many Double Dates With Kravis”, in Cosmopolitan:

(slang) The couple consisting of American musician Travis Barker and American media personality Kourtney Kardashian, married in 2022.


NazLib

No, random yt online anon, I'm not watching your favorite nazlib video. My politics are informed by the Black radical tradition. Not breadtube.

2021 May 5, @SixTenSocialist, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

your average nazlib literally believes that people who think Trump is funny are worse than hitler and mussolini combined but militias in Ukraine with swastika tattoos carrying out violent pogroms against Russians are tolerant democratic liberals you can't make this shit up

2022 June 21, @StalinismUSA, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

they did this to me too. i defended my mother country of iran and these racist nazlibs said i was not a real iranian. leftists will drop their wokeism and become white supremacists to any minority that does not fall in line with globalism. it's a façade.

2022 September 25, @ComradeCena99, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

It's interesting how anti Semitic behavior is denounced automatically rightfully so because the Holocaust happened but Russophobia is considered a joke by Nazlibs even though Russia lost 27 million people to the nazis. Interesting.

2022 November 4, @americas_putin, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

Reagan and North are NazLibs who brought Yaroslav Stetsko to the White House and celebrated him as the "last premier of a free Ukrainian State".

2022 December 30, u/Express-Guide-1206, “Oliver North reassuring us about Ukraine”, in Reddit, r/TrueAnon, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

Banderites didn't get started in 2022, dumbass. They've been in power since the 2014 Maidan coup where they were killing protesters with snipers. Even back in 2008 one of the early pro-NATO NazLibs commemorated Bandera as "Hero of Ukraine". Your mental gymnastics are historical revisionism

2023 June 4, u/RequirementRemoteB, “74% Of Ukrainians Hold Favorable View Of Stepan Bandera According To Ukrainian Research Org.”, in Reddit, r/stupidpol, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

(Internet slang, politics) Someone who calls themselves a liberal, but espouses far-right beliefs.

scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist


poonami

This is referred to as a number three, or a poonami. During your darkest days of toilet training, hold onto the memory of this, because nothing could be as bad as this, right?

2019, N. Taylor, Parenting Uncut, Lulu.com, page 55:

An act of defecation in which an infant produces a large amount of excrement.


kismesis

en-noun

kismesis (countable and uncountable, plural kismeses)

Blend of kismet (“fate, destiny”) + nemesis.

blend

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kismesis.

(Homestuck fandom slang) A person with whom one shares an intense but adversarial connection; a nemesis; a rival.


thugsta

This here ain't no romance / It's an urban erotic tale / Hood life, gats, stacked papers / Set a thugsta up to fail

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

In an industry dominated by men and images of "thugsta" rappers in the late 1990s and early 2000s with gold grills, tattoos, platinum chains, and dark clothing, bubblegum-chewing [Missy] Elliott popularized a hip-hop wardrobe for urban women that included contemporaneously fashionable unisex athletic gear and oversize clothing in soft, "girlie" colors, as well as de rigueur enormous monogrammed hoop earrings and perfectly manicured fingernails.

2013, Jonathan C. Friedman, editor, The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 177–178:

(African-American Vernacular, slang) Someone who is both a thug and a gangsta.


greycing

Shorter working hours, the modern semi-detached house, cinema, television, motor-coach tours, greycing, the pools, all these he desires.

1955, Federation News - General Federation of Trade Unions (page N-10)

The greyhound was formerly used in the chase, but is now mainly associated with greyhound racing, or 'greycing'.

2006, Dictionary of Pub Names, page 174:

Greyhound racing
greyhound racing#English


autobesity

He said the aim was "to focus on an absurdity: auto-besity ... the inexorable growth in the weight and size of vehicles circulating in our cities, and particularly in Paris".

2023 July 11, Kim Willsher, quoting Frédéric Badina-Serpette, “Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle 'auto-besity'”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

Health authorities have waged a war on obesity for years. Now, in an effort to curtail the rise of big cars such as S.U.V.s and cut down on pollution, Paris has declared a war on "auto-besity." Its first step is to charge drivers more to park the vehicles — a move that could eventually hit car companies.

2023 July 15, Ephrat Livni, Bernhard Warner, Ravi Mattu, Michael J. de la Merced, “Why Deep-Sea Mining Is the Next Battleground in the Energy Transition”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-23:

I fear we are not as smart as the French. Do not be surprised if the next trend in autobesity coming from the USA is people buying tanks. A mammoth machine equipped with a big gun, just what monster SUV owners dream of.

2023 July 21, David Lovejoy, “Editorial: Tackling autobesity”, in Byron Shire Echo, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

(neologism) The situation of cars being too big and heavy, taking too much space and causing road safety and pollution problems.


Hetlor

If you know anything about Swiftdom, it may not surprise you that there are two camps that are having it out over this particular song currently. These are the Hetlors ("het" as in heterosexual), who are fans that affirm Taylor Swift's straightness and frown upon queer interpretations of her lyrics, and the Gaylors, who are, well, the opposite.

2021 November 22, Madison Malone Kircher, “Taylor Swift Has Led Her Fans Down Another Gay Rabbit Hole”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-06-02:

Several Gaylors used TikTok and Reddit to express their disappointment, triggering backlash from Hetlors and others who argued a celebrity's sexuality shouldn't be a topic for public debate.

2022 October 17, Nell Geraets, “Queer as Folklore: Why are fans arguing over Taylor Swift's sexuality?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-30:

"Gaylors, hetlors, normalors need to come together and not step off matty healy's neck until they break up," one Swiftie wrote on Twitter.

2023 May 24, Dani Di Placido, quoting @repromantic, “Taylor Swift's Matty Healy Controversy, Explained”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

Many face harassment from a hostile cohort of Swifties known as Hetlors, notorious for a queerphobic insistence that Taylor is straight. Bullying from Hetlors has driven some Gaylors to go dark and wipe their social accounts, which explains why most here at Camp Gaylore have asked that Cosmo publish their first names only.

2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan:

(fandom slang) Someone who opposes the Gaylor theory.


climigrant

A person who has migrated as a result of climate change.


climigration

The movement of people away from increasingly harsh or unliveable climates resulting climate change.


dayjamas

Canada, Midland US, Northern US, Western US

DAYJAMAS FOR CASUAL AND LEISURE CLOTHING FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, NAMELY, SHIRTS, PANTS, SHORTS, SOCKS, SWEATERS AND JACKETS (U.S. CLS. 22 AND 39).

1996 December 17, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 257:

In its 2012 resort collection, Louis Vuitton gave model Arizona Muse a Coco Chanel look, but traded the immortal mademoiselle’s tweed and ivory silk for “dayjamas” with blue leopard spots and a fuddy-duddy cardigan. The old menswear classic was accessorised with a matchy-matchy helmet and Prince Albert slippers.

2012 May 27, “Pajamas wake up to the party scene”, in The New Indian Express, archived from the original on 2020-10-26:

What are DayJamas? DayJama /dā•jämə/ noun: Comfortable enough to sleep in, but chic enough to wear all day. Mix and match effortless designs with and easy fit in a super soft material.

2021, “Mer Sea Fall 2021”, in Harper Group, Fall/Winter edition, archived from the original on 2023-07-30, page 23:

The “inclusive and nonbinary” collection consists of slipdresses, dayjamas, tops and bottoms, and robes in luxurious silk.

2022 July 28, Christian Chensvold, “Roy G. Takes Tie-Dye to the Next Level”, in California Apparel News, archived from the original on 2023-06-11:

There are three different categories that feature silk material in slip dresses (mini too), dayjamas, and robes. The color schemes are very loud and peaceful with a combination of excitement.

2022 August 15, Luke Drew, “SILKY SMOOTH COMFORT FROM ROY G.”, in The Garnette Report, archived from the original on 2023-07-30:

Pajama-like clothing worn as daytime-appropriate apparel.


dip hop

Blend of deaf + hip-hop; coined by artist Warren "Wawa" Snipe in 2005.

Using hip hop as a foundation, dip hop emplys low frequency bass patterns for its beats and sign language for its lyrics, creating a flow between the two that is both visual and tactile.

2016, Knut Holtsträter, Michael Fischer, Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 60/61 (2015/2016): Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik 60./61. Jahrgang - 2015/2016. Musik und Protest Music and Protest, Waxmann Verlag, →ISBN, page 73:

Other practitioners of dip hop, particularly grassroots rappers and dip hop groups, perform primarily for Deaf audiences and do not incorporate the use of oral language or bimusical elements.

2021 November 30, Marko Kölbl, Fritz Trümpi, Music and Democracy: Participatory Approaches, transcript Verlag, →ISBN:

Rather than trying to correct deafness with hearing aids or cochlear implants, the Deaf community embraces new forms of communicating and experimenting with artistic practices. Movements such as Dip-Hop, or Deaf Hip-Hop, were born with the idea of a connection between languages[…]

2023 March 31, Iva Nenic, Linda Cimardi, Women's Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies, Alliances, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 89:

(music) a genre and broader subculture combining hip-hop with Deaf culture.


tantoo

Using Sun for Profit Recommended as a natural for beaches and carnivals are "sun tantoo" designs offered by Great-Circle Products,. Inc., New York. The tantoo designs are simply placed on the body and the sun does the rest.

1944 July 15, The Billboard, volume 56, number 29, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 50:

A TANTOO Fanbo REPELLENT CREAM SUMMER COMFORT REPELS INSECTS PREVENTS SUNBURN AIDS NATURAL TAN In large handy tube

1947, Canadian Forestry Association, Forest and Outdoors, Canadian Forestry Association, page 194:

“Let's get a tantoo,” says Jil when we finally calm down. “I don't want a tattoo.” “Not a tattoo. A tantoo. You go to a tanning salon, to get a suntan, but you pick out a sticker that will cover part of your skin so you're left with a white patch that's shaped like a skull or a butterfly or something.”

2015 April 14, Betty Hicks, Get Real, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN:

A tan line planned in the style of a tattoo.


shamboo

en-noun

shamboo (countable and uncountable, plural shamboos)

Locklear was glad of her absence; it gave him time to finish a laminated shamboo handle for his blade, bound with thread, and to collect the thickest poles of shamboo he could find. The blade was sharp enough to trim the poles quickly, and tough enough to hold an edge.

1990 April 1, Dean Ing, chapter 3, in Cathouse, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 60:

The cargo bay contained a number of large crates, woven shamboo strips on a framework of larger stems. He emptied four and began methodically packing.

2010 April 27, S.M. Stirling, The Sky People, volume 1, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 154:

Higher skids off the ground, so he could work beneath the raft; a better method for winding that weight up and down; and a sturdy shamboo mast for his single sail—better still, a two-piece mast bound in a narrow Aframe to those […]

2013 June 15, Larry Niven, Stephen Hickman, Poul Anderson, Dean Ing, The Man-Kzin Wars: 25th Anniversary Edition, 25th edition, volume 1, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:

The giant cage with shamboo bars surrounded an artificial pond, and there in that place, Aaron and his acolytes were doing something that no one believed could be done: they were taming grendels.

2020 April 7, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Starborn and Godsons, Baen Books, →ISBN: