seelonce

Borrowed from French silence. Doublet of silence.

seelonce mayday

(radio, used in fixed interjections) Pronunciation spelling of French silence.


neurostunner

"She fries my synapses with a neurostunner whose insurance warranty ran out around the time of the Skytube, then she asks if I'm okay," he said, attempting to laugh but coughing instead.

1993, Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background:

I grabbed the neurostunner from the drawer — the kind allowed in the house, but not beyond its doors — and hurried toward the front door, querying the system.

2004, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Flash, page 178:

(science fiction) A weapon that stuns a person by affecting their nervous system.


Skeltonics

(poetry) The irregular poetic meter used by John Skelton (c.1460–1529), English poet.


mouthpie

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(pornography) Semen visibly displayed after ejaculation in the mouth.


Turkish Star Wars

From Turkish + Star Wars, in reference to being a Turkish-language film that became notorious for containing plagiarized clips, music and sound effects from the Star Wars films, among others.

(film) Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam; a Turkish science-fiction film from 1982.


ITYSL

Throughout ITYSL, the office has been a prime setting for unleashing uncomfortable characters who grate against unspoken social codes.

2023 June 17, Amanda Wicks, “A Master Class in How Not to Act at Work”, in The Atlantic:

w:I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

(television) Initialism of I Think You Should Leave.


front-pager

(journalism) An article published on the front page.


sesame dot

(typography) A Japanese typographic mark resembling a comma or dot, placed above or beside words to indicate emphasis. It exists in filled and empty variants.


MSPA

MS Paint Adventures
w:MS Paint Adventures

(comics) Initialism of MS Paint Adventures.


press pass

(journalism) A card or document which grants some type of special privilege to journalists.


plate mail

Of mail there are two forts, viz. chain and plate mail. Chain mail is formed by a number of iron rings, each ring having four others inserted into it; the whole exhibiting a kind of net-work, with circular meshes, every ring[…]

1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature:

Crusaders all wear light plate mail or a chain mail and plate mail mix.

2010 November 21, Joseph Barresi, Gods of Arator Volume 1 the Gods of Life, midnightrise, →ISBN, page 71:

The first armor, flexible chain mail with gambesons (a quilted garment worn under the mail), was far more effective than the later plate mail. To be effective against arrows, plate mail had to be so heavy as to render its use[…]

2011, Vic Hurley, Arrows Against Steel: The History of the Bow and how it Forever Changed Warfare, Cerberus Books, →ISBN, page 25:

[…] however, his legs are completely covered by plate mail. This combination of chain and plate mail, similar to that which we noted already in the Wenceslas Bible, appears in a number of cases here[…]

2014 May 5, Eduard Wagner, Zoroslava Drobná, Jan Durdík, Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 30:

(academically obsolete, now fiction, fantasy) Brigandine.


musical film

(film, performing arts) A film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.


Scholomance

(folklore) A fabled underground school of black magic in Romania.


set dresser

(theater, film, television) A person who prepares the set with props and furniture to give it the correct appearance and to make sure that each item is in the correct position for each performance.


moeshit

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(anime, derogatory) Anime with a focus on the portrayal of moe.


show-through

en-noun

show-through (countable and uncountable, plural show-throughs)

(printing) The undesirable situation where matter printed on one side of a sheet is visible from the other side.

läpinäkyminen

situation where print is visible from the other side


boat anchor

Suggesting that it would only be useful as a weight to be thrown overboard to moor a vessel.

(slang, radio, computing) A cumbersome, useless piece of equipment.


self-facial

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Coordinate term: facial

(slang, sex, pornography) A sex act of ejaculation onto one's own face.


monolight

(theater, film) A self-contained photographic flash lighting unit, typically found in studios.


sunwing

While we still had the giant sunwings we traveled the world, exploring other continents from the air.

2003, Sean Mcmullen, Eyes of the Calculor:

Slowly, on parallel tracks into the breeze, the sunwings rolled off.

(science fiction) A wing or extension designed to capture energy from sunlight.


frauditor

A blend of fraud + auditor. The journalistic sense appeared in the early 2020s. The first appearance of the business sense is uncertain.

First Amendment auditor
First Amendment auditor

(US, journalism) An intimidating, phony or insincere First Amendment auditor.


LUHF

(radio) Initialism of lowest usable high frequency.


pack journalist

pack journalist (plural pack journalists)

(journalism) A person engaged in pack journalism.


spot color

Coordinate term: process color

(printing) In offset printing, any color generated by an ink, pure or mixed, that is printed using a single run.


fringe time

(television) A time period used in television programs to denote the evening television hours that precede and follow the prime time.


death game

Japanese: デスゲーム

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(fiction) A subgenre of battle royal in which the winner is the only person, team or faction that survives, outlasting all others; a game of survival.


psychoscope

(chiefly science fiction) A proposed device able to read a person's thoughts or to provide psychiatric diagnosis.


Grecs du roi

Unadapted borrowing from French Grecs du roi (literally “king’s Greeks”).

ubor

Garamond's caractères de l'Université, in four sizes of roman and italic, and the grecs du roi in three sizes, became the nucleus of the magnificent collection of types now belonging to the Imprimerie Nationale de France.

1922, Daniel Berkeley Updike, Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use; A Study in Survivals, page 236:

In Paris, the Grecs du Roi had been celebrated ever since they had been cut by Claude Garamond in the mid-sixteenth century; but they remained privileged types, restricted for the use of the Imprimerie Royale.

1992, David McKitterick, A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872, page 66:

Vergecio's hand became in turn the model for the grecs du roi, themselves the model by which Greek type was measured for almost three hundred years.

1992, Nicolas Barker, Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century, page 2:

(typography) An influential Greek minuscule typeface created by Claude Garamond.


LAA

en-noun

LAA (countable and uncountable, plural LAAs)

(radio, uncountable) Initialism of license-assisted access.


compound balloon

(comics) A type of speech bubble that splits dialogue into smaller pieces.


X-ray spectacles

(science fiction) Spectacles that allow the wearer to see through solid objects such as walls or clothing.


Hipponactean

We dismiss, at the outset, as unnecessary for our purpose, the long and learned-looking array of spondees, pyrrhics, trochees, dactyls, tribrachs and amphimacers with the endless but never nameless array of metres—dimeters, trimeters, Adonics, ithyphallics, Hipponacteans, and the rest; […]

1888, James Wood Davidson, The Poetry of the Future, New York, N.Y.: John B. Alden, page 30:

(poetry) A Hipponactean verse; (especially) a hypercatalectic form of Glyconian verse.


IFB

(broadcasting) Initialism of interruptible feedback line.


live shot

(journalism) A direct shot of a reporter or anchor in a scene or surroundings outside of the studio.


terrestrial time

(science fiction) Time based on the time system used on Earth, consisting of 24-hour days.


remjet

From the traditional process of removing the layer, removal by jets of water, although the layer can be and often is removed chemically.

(photography, cinematography) The anti-halation layer on ECN-2, Kodachrome, and several other types of photographic or motion picture film. It is an opaque black coating on the non-emulsion side of the film that is removed before the development process.


breakfast television

(media, television) Any type of television programming that takes place in the morning, usually around breakfast-time.


biodoc

The news comes after Rimes spoke out about their relationship, which broke up their first marriages, on new biodoc “Backstory: LeAnn Rimes,” to air Sunday on US cable channel Great American Country.

2011 April 23, “LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian wed in Los Angeles”, in New York Post:

“Portrait” abounds in the sort of ironies and contrasts that can make a biodoc fascinating even to auds totally unfamiliar with its subject.

2012 September 11, Joe Leydon, “Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp”, in Variety:

The documentarian talks to THR about how he deviated from the typical biodoc playbook and casting Michael J. Fox with Fox in the room.

2023 August 17, Mia Galuppo, “‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Director Talks His Approach to the Celebrity Biodoc: “I’m Always Looking for a Very Intimate Connection””, in The Hollywood Reporter:

The comprehensive biodoc – she was much more than Mrs. Johnny Cash – premieres on Paramount+ on Jan. 16.

2024 January 11, Brad Wheeler, “Documentary shines light on country music icon June Carter Cash”, in The Globe and Mail:

(film) a documentary film about a person


pixels per inch

(graphic design, typography) A measurement of the pixel density of an electronic image device, such as a computer monitor or television display.


time lady

(radio, telephony) A female voice heard on a speaking clock that a person could dial to find out the current time, down to the second, before the age of the Internet and other options for finding out the time existed.


middle-market

(journalism) Catering to readers who seek entertainment as well as news coverage.


time copy

(journalism) A newspaper or periodical copy that is set in type and held for future use.


vowel rhyme

vowel rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural vowel rhymes)

Coordinate term: consonant rhyme


consonant rhyme

consonant rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural consonant rhymes)


Time Variance Authority

(comics) A fictional organization appearing in American comic books, depicted as a group of timeline monitors.


advance copy

(publishing) A copy of a new book or magazine by a publisher which is distributed to a bookseller, library, or others, before the publication is printed for mass distribution.


presentation copy

presentation copy (plural presentation copies)

(publishing) A copy of a book that has been presented, usually by the author or an entity associated with the book's production, to another individual.


review copy

(publishing) A copy of a book or publication delivered to journals or newspapers in order for it to be reviewed.


promotional copy

promotional copy (plural promotional copies)

(publishing) Any type of writing designed to persuade a reader to take a specific action.


flat time

flat time (countable and uncountable, plural flat times)

(film, television) The time during which the camera is not rolling or when no activity is occuring on the set.


equal time

equal time (countable and uncountable, plural equal times)

(US, radio, television) A policy stating that radio and television licensees are required to offer opposing political candidates an equal amount of airtime.


time spent listening

(US, radio, communication) The amount of time that an average listener that is surveyed spends listening to each radio station at one time, before changing the station or turning it off.

(US, radio, communication) An estimate of the duration of time that the average listener is exposed to a particular station for a specific time period.


nonsync

Short for nonsynchronous or nonsynchronized.

The great Arri S and M models were workhorses of nonsync filming in the 1970s. They're still great cameras, and you can buy used ones for a pittance. If you're not recording dialogue, they'll be fine. […] If you don't mind windup, spring-driven cameras, the Bolex 16s are good nonsync cameras.

2012, Jack Anderson, Shooting Movies Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot, page 216:

(film) Relating to a soundtrack that is not synchronized with the picture, but played back from a separate medium.


bibliosmia

From biblio- (“book”) + -osmia (“smell”). Coined on 24 February 2014 by English lecturer and author Oliver Tearle in a now-deleted tweet, originally as “the act of smelling books”.

He [Evan Friss] approvingly considers the Instagram wall at Books Are Magic, the novelist Emma Straub’s shop in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, and less so the eponymous bibliosmia fragrance bottled by Powell’s, the Portland, Ore., landmark.

2024 August 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Browsing Is a Pleasure in This History of the Bookstore”, in The New York Times:

(literature, neologism) The pleasant smell and aroma of a new (or any) book, caused by the gradual chemical breakdown of the compounds used within the paper.


SOT

SOT (countable and uncountable, plural SOTs)

(broadcasting) Audio recorded to accompany vision, as opposed to audio recorded later, such as voice-over.

(broadcasting, journalism) Audio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite.


digipaint

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(anime) The use of computer technology to apply color fills to animation cels.


Moonite

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


death flag

Calque of Japanese 死亡フラグ (shibō furagu).

(fandom slang, chiefly Japanese media) A trope suggesting to the viewer that a character will die.


total running time

total running time (countable and uncountable, plural total running times)

(broadcasting, journalism) The total amount of time of the taped portion of the total story time.


total story time

total story time (countable and uncountable, plural total story times)

Coordinate term: total running time

(broadcasting, journalism) The total amount of time of a story or report, from the beginning by the announcer or newscaster until its end, including any tape or other material within it.


time vampire

Do you mean that Jarmyn Thanatos is some kind of a— a time vampire?

1997, Brad Strickland, John Bellairs, The Bell, the Book and the Spellbinder:

“I'm a time vampire,” Loretta Vampireclanso-called-jiangshi said. “I can take time from people, or give it away.”

2017, Emily Martha Sorensen, Trials of a Teenage Werevulture:

But I was laying low, and vampires can't always be choosers, even time vampires.

(science fiction) A variety of vampire that feeds off time or potential years of life.


tailjob

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From tail + job, by analogy with terms like handjob.

It DOES have a powerful scripting language, but seriously... what are the chances of someone giving you a lame script which makes you join #dragonrealm and then ask for a tailjob when you're working on your term paper?

1997 August 23, Ryan Tucker, “Crypt Keeper....”, in alt.irc.ircii (Usenet):

wait wat... Miyuri is giving Hisaya a tailjob?!...

Imagine licking her soft smooth tummy 🤤🤤🤤 and rubbing her fluffy ears 🥵🥵🥵 while this hot cutie is giving you a tailjob uoooooohhhhhhh 😭🥵💦😭😭🥵💦😭 I wouldn't last long 😭😭😭💦💦💦

2024 January 14, u/SexWithElysia, “Shun wearing a cat costume”, in r/BlueArchive, Reddit:

(anime slang, furry fandom) A sexual act wherein the genitalia are stimulated by a tail.


pawjob

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From paw + job, by analogy with terms like footjob and handjob.

Noop whimpered and humped up into the empty air, his tip drooled more precum as he was massaged by the mist surrounding him. He was so lost in the pleasure of the best pawjob he'd ever received that at first, he didn't notice that his legs were slowly being parted.

2004 February 28, FuzzWolf, “[Fur] New Story: "Whisp" [M/M, Fox, ghost, anal]”, in fur.stories.erotica, Google Groups:

Or at the very least mutual pawjobs... cause that doesn't make ya gay!

there's still time to catch a bus, register, and give me a pawjob

2014 September 26, @CaptainErsatz, Twitter:

Any artist that draws Yoshi pawjobs are a favorite of mine. Amazing work!

Damn, imagine what those beans would feel like....
I need a pawjob so bad rn

2024 February 1, u/Klee_In_A_Jar, “waifu everywhere”, in r/japanpeopletwitter, Reddit:

(furry fandom, anime, uncommon) A foot job performed by a furry or humanoid (such as a catgirl/catboy or other animal-human hybrid) using their paws, i.e. fictionally or as part of their fursuit/costume.


octarine

See octa-, -ine. Coined by author Terry Pratchett for his Discworld series.

[…] colors like octarine, the eighth color, an elusive spectral mix that's hard to describe and impossible to perceive. That's the thing about color. Try describing a rainbow or a sunset to a blind person or ask a synesthete[…]

2010 January 14, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 13:

Back in ScienceFictionaLand, octarine is the color of magic, an animating force in the Diseworld series by Terry Pratchett. A fluorescent, greenish-yellow purple, octarine can only be detected by wizards and cats.

2013 September 17, Jude Stewart, ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 129:

Another way of looking at the magical character customization option [in which players choose their color] is that it allows players to find their own octarine, the color of their own magical self in Peter Carroll's vision of things. Octarine is a fictitious eighth color of magic invented by Terry Prachett in his novel The Colour of Magic and later used by occultist Peter Carroll in Liber Kaos to describe the color of a magician's rebellious, mischievous sorcerous self[…]

2014 April 22, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 177:

Octarine, the color of magic, glows from your finished pages.

2017 April 25, Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:

The eight types of magic can be attributed to the seven classical planets, plus Uranus for octarine. […] Following Prachett's hypothesis (and many a useful thing is said in jest), the eighth color of the spectrum, which is the magician's personal perception of the color of magic, may be called octarine. […]

2023 July 3, Peter J. Carroll, Liber Kaos: Chaos Magic for the Pandaemonaeon (Revised and Expanded Edition), Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 87:

(chiefly fiction) The color of magic, a notional extra color distinct from the colors of the rainbow / normal visible light spectrum, which is said (chiefly in certain fiction but also by some occultists) to be visible to users of magic.


sight bite

(television) A brief visual clip used in a news broadcast or similar.


screenlife

Screenlife tends to be most interesting to me when it has a found footage feel to it.

Bekmambetov sees Screenlife as an ideal platform for exploring fascinating true-life stories.

2018 September 4, Isaac Feldberg, “'Screenlife' thrillers like Searching are here to stay; here are 9 on the horizon”, in Entertainment Weekly:

It's extremely difficult to procure, but any screenlife completist should make an effort to track down The Collingswood Story, if only to appreciate how far webcam technology has come in two decades.

2021 June 25, Grant Rindner, “The History of Screenlife Films: 10 Key Movies in An Exciting New Genre”, in GQ:

You know, one thing that I kind of think about when I think about this genre and wonder is, for each of you, do you think that screenlife takes a moral stance about the technology that it uses?

2023 January 25, Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, “Has the screenlife format of the new thriller 'Missing' gone stale by now?”, in All Things Considered, NPR:

(film) A subgenre or format of film in which the majority of the action is presented via diegetic digital interfaces (such as video calls or instant messages).


color grading

(film) A post-production process common to filmmaking and video editing of enhancing various attributes of an image such as contrast, color, saturation, detail, black level, and white balance.


spacelab

(especially science fiction) A laboratory in outer space.


cumflate

en-verb

cumflate (third-person singular simple present cumflates, present participle cumflating, simple past and past participle cumflated)

cumflates (present singular third-person)
cumflating (participle present)
cumflated (participle past)
cumflated (past)

Back-formation from cumflation. Blend of cum + inflate.

(transitive) To inflate (someone or something) with semen; typically via ejaculation, as part of cumflation pornography.

(intransitive) To become inflated by semen in such a manner.


cumflation

en-noun

cumflation (countable and uncountable, plural cumflations)

Blend of cum + inflation. By surface analysis, cumflate + -ion.

(uncountable, pornography) A genre of fetish pornography in which one or more participants become or appear to become inflated by semen; typically by being ejaculated inside.

(countable, pornography) An instance of a cumflation scene.


frontcap

Coordinate term: endcap

(television) A logo or visual sequence immediately preceding a programme, identifying the broadcaster or production company.


extralight

en-adj

extralight (comparative more extralight, superlative most extralight)

more extralight (comparative)
most extralight (superlative)

In England, a classification standard has been developed that contains eight weights: extralight, light, semilight, medium, semibold, bold, extrabold, and ultrabold.

2014, Rob Carter, Philip B[axter] Meggs, Ben Day, Sandra Maxa, Mark Sanders, Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Edition 6), →ISBN, page 45:

(typography) Lighter than a typical light typeface.


semilight

(typography) Of a weight between light and medium.


aircraft station

en-noun

aircraft station (plural aircraft stations)

(radio, aeronautics) A radio station broadcast from an aircraft.


dolce stil nuovo

From Italian dolce stil nuovo (literally “sweet new style”).

bor

(literature, historical) A literary movement in 13th- and 14th-century Italy, influenced by the Sicilian School and Tuscan poetry, and having divine love as its main theme, often incorporating vivid descriptions of female beauty and likening women to angels.


sponsor-free

The podcast has a separate sponsor-free RSS feed for paying listeners.

Pacifica Foundation, which operates three sponsor-free FM radio stations, has found satisfaction for itself and its listeners[…]

1960 July 11, National Guardian, volume 12, number 39:

(media) Not containing ads from sponsors.


zombie box

A possible calque of Russian зомбоящик (zombojaščik).

calque

taking a form more frequently thought of as anathematical to poetry (Iain Chrichton Smith, for example, lambasted the TV as a deadening zombie box in "At the TV") and seeing in it parallels and possibilities.

2002, Galloway Kyle, Harold Monro, Stephen Phillips (editors), Poetry Review, Volume 92, page 60:

Nichelle was wary as she set purse and a couple of small shopping bags on the table. "Great. Thanks?" He didn't say anything else, just kept watching the zombie box.

2014, Chris Marie Green, Another One Bites the Dust, page 202:

More contemporary Russian fears are centered on the ability of mass media to essentially colonize human consciousness, turning the individual into a function of the "zombie-box" (or TV), as is the case in Viktor Pelevin's Generation П.

2020, Keith A. Livers, Conspiracy Culture, Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination, page 23:

(slang, derogatory, television, uncommon) A television.


time stretching

(film, photography) A type of slow motion editing achieved during post-production by inserting new frames in between frames that have actually been photographed.


drop pod

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(science fiction) A re-entry vehicle, often single-use, used to deploy infantry or ground vehicles from an orbiting starship to a planet's surface.


military science fiction

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on military technology, characters, and conflicts.


close reading

en-noun

close reading (countable and uncountable, plural close readings)

Students almost universally hate close reading, and they rarely wind up understanding it anyway. Forced to pick out meaning in passages they don't fully grasp to begin with, they begin to get the idea that English class is about simply making things up (Ah yes—the tree mentioned once on page 89 and then never again stands for weakness and loss!)

2010 July 1, Heather Horn, “Stop Close Reading”, in The Atlantic:

(literature) The careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text.


Skeltonic

(poetry) Employing or relating to Skeltonics.


choseong

Borrowed from Korean 초성 (choseong, “initial sound”).

bor+

So, Choseong means the first/initial sound. Always located at the beginning of a syllable.

2024 January 29, Richard Lee, Mastering 399 syllables, Hangeul keeper, page 5:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a consonant, consonant cluster, or silence in the syllable onset


jungseong

Borrowed from Korean 중성 (jungseong, “medial sound”).

[…] and one vowel called the medial (jungseong; syllable nucleus).

2018 March 7, Taebum Kim, Korean-English Dictionary 17000: 17,000 Words for Learning Korean, Core Voca, page 2:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a vowel or diphthong in the syllable nucleus


jongseong

Borrowed from Korean 종성 (jongseong, “final sound”).

A Korean syllable is divided into three parts: choseong (initial consonant), jungseong (peak vowel), and jongseong (final consonant).

2014 June 20, Korean Culture and Information Service (South Korea), Guide to Korean Culture: Korea's cultural heritage, 길잡이미디어, →ISBN, page 72:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a consonant or consonant cluster in the syllable coda


mesugaki

Borrowed from Japanese メスガキ (mesugaki), from 雌(めす) (mesu, “female (animal)”) + 餓鬼(がき) (gaki, “brat”). The term began being used among English speakers around 2020.

ja-compound

WE NEED MORE POKEKID IN EEVEE COSTUME DOUJINS DAMMIT!!
preferably one that presents her as a mesugaki :9

2020 May 26, @harid_ziran, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Riro quickly became one of the company’s most popular idols due to her gimmick as a “mesugaki” type character.

2023 November 28, Brandon Lyttle, “VTuber Riro Ron terminated for ‘dangerous and harmful’ activities”, in Niche Gamer, archived from the original on 2023-11-29:

Mutsuki is a brat that like to be suggestive with sensei. She's a mesugaki archetype, one of the more popular one in fact (despite it starting in azur lane)

2023 December 25, @megamega171, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-20:

Youre Oshi is the vtuber who made the loli song playing into the lolicon fetish of the Mesugaki. Dude cant pick a side on this topic.

2024 April 16, @king_of_games34, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-20:

(manga, anime, pornography) slutty brat girl; young (or young-looking) girl who likes to sexually tease her superiors


earbug

This cab couldn't transmit to his earbug.

With the earbug in, she could access data almost as quickly as with the implant.

2010, Elizabeth Moon, Trading In Danger: Vatta's War:

Mitsuharu pressed a finger to his earbug, jumping channels until the hissing growl of the enemy flooded in, making him wince.

2011, Thomas Harlan, Land of the Dead, page 349:

The earbug nanomites in Tan-Tan's ear became infected during the dimensional shift.

2014, Allan Weiss, The Canadian Fantastic in Focus:

(science fiction) Any of various fictional devices that a person can listen to when it is installed in their ear.


legacyquel

Blend of legacy + sequel. Coined by film reviewer Matt Singer in 2015 (see quotation below).

coinage

Though there are still occasional reboots or prequels, this very specific kind of sequel — in which beloved aging stars reprise classic roles and pass the torch to younger successors — is becoming increasingly common in the American film industry. These movies are all about revitalizing old franchises through the notion of legacy, leading to this current wave of what we could call "legacyquels."

2015 November 23, Matt Singer, “Welcome to the Age of the Legacyquel”, in ScreenCrush, archived from the original on 2024-03-02:

Jurassic World, in a phenomenon some are now calling the "legacyquel" or the "legacy franchise", incorporated nod after nod to its 1993 progenitor – and (see below) was far from the only one in that game in 2015.

2015 December 29, Phil Hoad, “Jurassic World and the 'legacyquel': 2015 global box office in review”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-09:

Top Gun: Maverick is not only the latest of these legacyquels, but one of the best, passing the baton from original star Tom Cruise to a new generation of actors while confidently—even definitively—reminding audiences what made Cruise so goddamn great in the first place.

2022 May 31, Todd Gilchrist, “From Top Gun: Maverick to Crystal Skull, the 5 best—and 5 worst—legacyquels of all time”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2023-09-21:

(film, neologism) A sequel to a classic movie which features the original star "passing the torch" to a cast of new younger actors.


fwip

(chiefly manga) A generic sound for movement, or for something appearing.


photo kill

(journalism) An advisory stating that a previously issued photograph should no longer be used, for example because it was found to be fake or to violate a copyright.


SATC

Reminds me of wise (and show-defining) words that came not from SATC’s lead Carrie, but its underestimated backbone, Charlotte: “Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”

2024 April 5, Alaina Demopoulos, “Sex and the City is on Netflix. Perfect – gen Z are a bunch of Charlottes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(television) Initialism of Sex and the City.


reverse isekai

en-noun

reverse isekai (countable and uncountable, plural reverse isekai or reverse isekais)

reverse isekai (plural)
reverse isekais (plural)

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is a reverse-isekai show? That's actually a really cool concept

2017 January 22, @alltsun_nodere, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Idea for a reverse Isekai where tired/angry space alien gets to live life as a humble Japanese salaryman observing other humans

2018 October 26, @blackbookalpha, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

Thinking intensely about the reverse isekai story that lives rent free in my head where a depressed writer gives up on her novel and the protagonist and the villain lose their powers so they find a way to travel to the author's world to make her finish her book

2020 December 29, @OccultasHQ, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

The anime is a “cute girls doing cute things” spin on the reverse isekai subgenre and follows a group of two angels and two demons sent to Earth, particularly Gabriel, who arrives on Earth in search of knowledge.

2023 October 18, Maham Arsalan, “10 Best Reverse Isekai Anime to Watch Right Now”, in Comic Book Resources:CBR, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

Quite a number of reverse isekai anime start with a human summoning a being from another world, usually to ask for some assistance. So, in terms of premise, Dropkick On My Devil! is about as predictable as they come; however, the show is anything but typical.

2024 February 13, Mark Sammut, “Best Reverse Isekai Anime Of All Time, Ranked”, in Game Rant, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

One of the biggest hits of the Winter 2024 anime season was Solo Leveling, a show that took the reverse-isekai formula and gave it a dark twist.

2024 April 5, Trent Cannon, “Solo Leveling season 2 release date: Crunchyroll set to Solo Leveling: Arise from the Shadows when it airs - but when?”, in Popverse, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

(Japanese fiction) A subgenre of isekai where people from a fantasy or fictional world are transported into modern-day Earth, rather than the other way around.


time diversity

time diversity (countable and uncountable, plural time diversities)

(radio, telecommunications) The process of sending the same signal or components of a signal through a communication channel where the same signal is received at different times, used in order to compare, recover, or add to the overall quality of the received signal.


OANN

They added, “OANN’s internal and external discussions about the Stolen Passwords represent circumstantial evidence that OANN intended to harm Smartmatic and intended to undermine people’s confidence in the 2020 election.”

2024 February 7, Marshall Cohen, “Pro-Trump network OAN’s president solicited more info after receiving ‘stolen’ Smartmatic passwords, court documents allege”, in CNN:

One America News Network
w:One America News Network

(television) Initialism of One America News Network.


OAN

Napoli said he has never seen a US president promote a network like OAN while launching a sustained assault on credible news organizations.

2020 May 8, Oliver Darcy, “Meet OAN, the little-watched right-wing news channel that Trump keeps promoting”, in CNN:

(television) Initialism of One America News.


man versus time

(literature) The perpetual struggle of a protagonist to overcome persistent difficulties or obstacles.


Odagiri effect

Named after Japanese actor Joe Odagiri, who starred in the 2000 tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Kuuga.

(television) A television phenomenon in which a program attracts a larger than expected number of women viewers because the program stars attractive male actors or characters.


B-reel

B-reel (usually uncountable, plural B-reels)

The separate reels of a multiple-chain story are given letter designations: A-reel, B-reel, C-reel.

[1969, Maury Green, Television News: Anatomy and Process, page 120:

The story usually (but by no means always) opens with an A-reel shot of the reporter who by narration establishes the shot. Then picture and sound move to the second chain (B-reel) to show actuality, the actuality picture sometimes being bridged at some points by the sound of narration on the A-reel.

1969, Maury Green, Television News: Anatomy and Process, page 135:

Begin matching the original with the work print by placing the first shot of the original on one reel (the “A” reel) and the second shot on another reel (the “B” reel). Continue alternating from the A reel to the B reel as you conform.

1974, George Glenn, Super 8 Handbook, page 176:

When the timing goes from a B reel to an A reel, the composer should be aware of how to write for this situation. The music in the outgoing reel should end at the end of the reel.

1980, Milton Lustig, Music Editing for Motion Pictures, page 38:

(television, film, music) The second piece of film or audio or video tape in a situation (as editing or broadcasting) where multiple inputs are used.

Now I remembered that Murph had convinced us not to show the first B reel during our viewing of the full takes, saying that we’d seen it before.

1991, Jim Weikart, Casualty Loss, page 151:

Lela was saddled with a cameraman, shooting “B-Reel” somewhere in the fairgrounds. Theoretically, that should slow her down and make her easier to catch.

2005, Melissa M. Dudek, Catchers, Cows, & Nachos, page 46:

I’m very weak. Everything takes effort. We spend the morning filming some B-reel and transferring footage, which leaves us both feeling wiped out, so we withdraw for a little midday tent time.

2019, Dianne Whelan, Base Camp: 40 Days on Everest, page 95:

(television, film) Secondary or supplemental footage to be intercut with principle film or video.


lit flick

The young Tom Eliot (played by Willem Dafoe) walked upon a beach in the recent Lit-Flick TOM & VIV. I saw no peaches eaten.

1995 September 7, Ted Samsel, “Prufrock question”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):

You must be waiting with baited breath for the lit-flick (humorous) about Jacquelyn Susann writing THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

2000 February 2, Ted Samsel, “Literary Criticism -- why has it gotten weird and is it getting more normal”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):

Seeing the book (and, to a lesser extent, the film) advertised gives me a strong sense that it’s chick lit/flick material.

2008 May 16, Sandro, “movie review: The Other Boleyn Girl”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):

Jeff Clanagan, who ran Master P's, No Limit Films at the time, was responsible for figuring out how to get the dimly lit flick into theaters.

2008, Vibe, volume 16, numbers 1-16, page 100:

She's not a genius like the others—far from it—and she already has her man (poor Dash), but Julia, based on Hellman’s barefaced fabrications in Pentimento, gives us several of the essential conceits of the lit-flick genre. To begin with, she too has writer's block.

2011, Robert Gottlieb, Lives and Letters, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 374:

Critique of the costume drama in many of its guises - period drama, lit flick, frock flick, historical film, heritage film, adaptation, costume series - has often emphasized its conservatism and the lack of dynamism in its audience.

2015, Jerome De Groot, Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions, Taylor & Francis, page 185:

By portraying the successful defense against criminal obscenity charges for a poem that celebrates queer sex, Epstein and Friedman’s “lit flick” arguably renders a poetics of the unrepressed, paving the way for a new queer political aesthetic.

2016, Casey Charles, Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture, Taylor & Francis, page 171:

(slang, film, television) A film based on a literary work.


lab lit

lab lit (usually uncountable, plural lab lits)

(literature) a genre of fiction, distinct from science fiction, that centers on realistic portrayals of scientists and science as a profession.


fade time

fade time (countable and uncountable, plural fade times)

(film, television) The amount of time for a scene to fade to dark after lighting up.


funwashing

Unknown origin, likely emerged around 2023.

Actually Fun-Washing and (sur) reality tv had a role in projecting Anne Widdecombe as a ‘national treasure’.

2023 November 30, Mike Small, “Fun-Washing Fascism”, in Bella Caledonia:

(television, neologism) The practice of someone taking part in a popular event or show, appearing on television, etc. as a way to improve their reputation with the public.


light engineering

Coordinate term: sound engineering

(film, television, theater) The technical discipline of the installation of lighting equipment and its utility on a set.


network option time

network option time (countable and uncountable, plural network option times)

(advertising, broadcasting) The amount of programming time that a network controls on each of its affiliate stations.


kyaa

(chiefly manga) An expression of surprise or dismay.


pressfeeder

(printing) A person employed to feed material into a printing press.


timeshift channel

timeshift channel (plural timeshift channels)

(television, broadcasting) A television channel carrying time-delayed reruns of its parent channel's programming.


time belt

The package rate is generally a total price for a schedule of spots at different time belts that costs less than the total of the rates for the individual spots making up the package.

1973, Otto Kleppner, Advertising Procedure, page 147:

Both devote a large amount of time, in the fifth time belt, to news.

1985, Paolo Mefalopoulos, Why Diversification of Programs?:

7. A sponsored programmed shall only be broadcast during the time belt in which it is legal for the sponsor to advertise its products.

2016, Linus Nnabuike Malu, Media Law and Policy in Nigeria, page 121:

Prices for each of these vary based on length of time (duration) and the time belt (am, pm, fringe time, primetime) required.

2011, Lai Oso, Umaru Pate, Mass Media and Society in Nigeria, page 247:

(broadcasting) A range of timeslots when scheduled programs can expect a certain type of audience, and for which advertisements pay a certain rate.

I've set it for the year dot, as it were. I wonder how long ago that is? A million years? A billion? They will put the time belt on the creature and press the little button.

1997, Robert Rankin, Nostradamus Ate My Hamster, page 309:

Lancaster explains to Kensington that Kensington must put on the Time Belt—it's set to take him back to the moment of the assassination and will automatically merge him back into the proper time stream.

1999, J. Neil Schulman, Profile in Silver: And Other Screenwritings:

The time belt was pretty much the same as all the others he'd worn, but it had no settings.

2013, Jack L. Chalker, Downtiming the Night Side:

(science fiction) A belt that is worn to enable the wearer to travel through time.


time compression

time compression (countable and uncountable, plural time compressions)

(film, television) The rendering of a video or a video clip of a shorter duration than real time.

(science fiction) The concept of condensing all of time and space into a single moment, or a singularity.


time trace

time trace (countable and uncountable, plural time traces)

(science fiction) A temporal phenomenon in which a creature is trapped in the same place, but in a different second of time leaves behind a palpable trace.


time stop

(science fiction) A process by which an object is stopped in time.


time integration

(science fiction) The process of extracting versions of a person from a different time period or a timeline and integrating them into a single person.


time series animation

time series animation (countable and uncountable, plural time series animations)

(film, television, cartography) The depiction or presentation of different events or incidents in a chronological or sequential order according to a particular attribute.


airchain

(broadcasting) The route in which an audio or video signal travels on its way through a radio station or television station.


frame time

frame time (countable and uncountable, plural frame times)

(film, television, photography) The total amount of time required for a single frame to be displayed on the screen, measured in seconds.


repetition time

repetition time (countable and uncountable, plural repetition times)

(radio, electronics) The amount of time from the application of an excitation pulse to the application of the next pulse.


pulse repetition time

pulse repetition time (countable and uncountable, plural pulse repetition times)

(electronics, radio) The elapsed time from the beginning of one pulse to the beginning of the next pulse.


live time

live time (countable and uncountable, plural live times)

(broadcasting) The time frame on a broadcast schedule which has been allocated for a live broadcast.


harem ending

(manga, manhwa) The ending of a hentai or pornhwa in which the protagonist ends up partnered with all or several of the potential love interests encountered in the story.


capture effect

(radio) A phenomenon where two FM signals of unequal strength at or near the same frequency are received simultaneously within the FM reception, in which the modulation of the weaker signal is suppressed at the demodulator output, and thus only the stronger is demodulated.


trypograph

From Ancient Greek τρῦπα (trûpa, “hole”), compare Ancient Greek τρυπάω (trupáō, “bore”), + -graph.

(printing, historical, rare) An early machine for printing by the use of paper stencils.


girls with guns

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(film, anime) A subgenre of action films that portray a female protagonist engaged in shootouts, often involving gunplay, stunts and martial arts action.


front projection

front projection (countable and uncountable, plural front projections)

Coordinate term: back projection

(film) A cinematic technique in which live action is filmed in front of a highly reflective screen, so that the background image is projected onto both the performer and the screen with the help of a one-way mirror angled at 45 degrees.


down-page

(journalism, newspapers) Of an article or story, appearing in a relatively low position on the page.


ABS-CBN

(Philippines, broadcasting) Initialism of Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network.


uwaa

(manga) Whoa! Wow! An exclamation of shock.


color timing

color timing (countable and uncountable, plural color timings)

(film, photography) The process of adjusting the amount of red, green, and blue light used to create a film positive from a film negative in an analog film lab.


mindrape

mindrape (countable and uncountable, plural mindrapes)

(science fiction, fantasy) Alternative form of mind rape


mindrape

en-verb

mindrape (third-person singular simple present mindrapes, present participle mindraping, simple past and past participle mindraped)

mindrapes (present singular third-person)
mindraping (participle present)
mindraped (participle past)
mindraped (past)

(transitive, science fiction, fantasy) Alternative form of mind rape


dooligah

(folklore) In Australian Aboriginal folklore, a giant hairy man said to abduct children.


mind rape

en-noun

mind rape (countable and uncountable, plural mind rapes)

"Memeticists exploit the anomalous to change how people see the world," Del Olmo continued. "We make them believe things which aren't true, when that's convenient for us. We make them believe things that are true, when bad actors have occluded their vision. We make them forget things. We make them see things which aren't there. We make them see things which are there, which they nevertheless can't see. We do it with imagery, with words, with sounds. It's the parascience of suggestion." He was really getting into the speech, gesturing with increasing excitement and constantly having to push his rectangular spectacles back up the bridge of his Roman nose.

2022 September 22, HarryBlank, “Mind Over Matter”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

(science fiction, fantasy) Nonconsensual intrusion into one's mind; the reading, modification, or control, by another, of one's thoughts or memories without one's consent, especially if forcible.


mind rape

en-verb

mind rape (third-person singular simple present mind rapes, present participle mind raping, simple past and past participle mind raped)

mind rapes (present singular third-person)
mind raping (participle present)
mind raped (participle past)
mind raped (past)

"You... you mindraped my boyfriend!" "I am sorry."

2011 December 5, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2024-05-25:

(transitive, science fiction, fantasy) To read, modify, or control (especially forcibly) another person's thoughts or memories without their consent.


grey alien

(science fiction or ufology) An archetypical humanoid alien, usually described as having grey skin, elongated, hairless, sexless features, and a large head with bulbous black eyes; chiefly associated with flying saucers, alien abductions and conspiracy theories relating to cover-ups by the United States government, such as Area 51.


pornhua

Blend of porno + manhua. Piecewise doublet of pornhwa.

(pornography, manhua) A pornographic manhua (Chinese comic).


nightfulness

He feels such delightfulness, stay out all-nightfulness, may I get tightfulness, / Which none can explain.

1894 April 14, chapter XIX, in A New England Woman, The Socrates Publishing Company, page 133:

They had thought themselves / in Hawaii when suddenly the pines, / trembling with nightfulness, / shook them out of their sibyllance.

1967 [1957], Frank O'Hara, “Romanze, or The Musical Students”, in Meditations in an Emergency, 2nd edition, Grove Press, page 20:

“And as this nightfulness appears to thin with distance, it should be entirely possible to pinpoint its epicenter? I find myself very much inclined to agree, Picnic. […]”

2016 September 14, Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night, Tom Doherty Associates, page 163:

Tonight the crescent moon is on its back / facing the darkness and I know that feeling / of nightfulness and the half ring it leaves / like part of a cupmark on a walnut table […]

2017, Julia McCarthy, “A Stab in the Dark”, in All the Names Between, Brick Books, page 5:

(rare, chiefly poetry) The state of being nightful.


back-timing

(radio, television, media) A technique used in radio, television, and mass media to calculate the amount of remaining time before an event or task ends, by counting down backwards from the end of the program, in order to ensure that the event concludes on time or within a specific time limit.


neurolizer

Serg's left hand reached for the neurolizer at the back of his battlesuit.

1996, Tracy Hickman, Requiem of Stars, page 38:

If Justin had known what a neurolizer was he probably would've joined the fray, which would have given the assailant an easy couple of seconds to take a few more shots.

2010, Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin, The Unincorporated Man - Volume 1, page 178:

One of the thugs grabs Vulpina's arms and lifts her up from her seat while the other henchman uses a neurolizer to stun Jorrim.

2011, J. Edward Parrott, Planet X: The Annunaki Wars, page 168:

"I learn in a few years. It's complicated." said Therese as she went and snuck out into the front room and took her mom's keys, grabbed the neurolizer from the back of the Cuckoo clock in the hallway , and came back and helped Kara sneak out on her injured leg and crutches .

2023, Clinton Armer, Space-Girl Michelle #3, Legends Never Die:

(science fiction) A hand-held weapon that disrupts the nervous system of a victim in some way.


ink up

ink up (third-person singular simple present inks up, present participle inking up, simple past and past participle inked up)

inks up (present singular third-person)
inking up (participle present)
inked up (participle past)
inked up (past)

(transitive, obsolete, printing) To apply ink to a roller in preparation for printing or to coat a roller with a preservative when not in use.


quad out

quad out (third-person singular simple present quads out, present participle quadding out, simple past and past participle quadded out)

quads out (present singular third-person)
quadding out (participle present)
quadded out (participle past)
quadded out (past)

(printing, obsolete) To space out a work using quads.


quoin up

quoin up (third-person singular simple present quoins up, present participle quoining up, simple past and past participle quoined up)

quoins up (present singular third-person)
quoining up (participle present)
quoined up (participle past)
quoined up (past)

(printing, obsolete) To set quoins in place prior to fastening them (locking up).


set up to oneself

set up to oneself (third-person singular simple present sets up to oneself, present participle setting up to oneself, simple past and past participle set up to oneself)

sets up to oneself (present singular third-person)
setting up to oneself (participle present)
set up to oneself (participle past)
set up to oneself (past)

(printing, reflexive, obsolete, intransitive) To set up (compose, typeset) one portion of text that precedes another portion set up by the same typesetter.


brush out

brush out (third-person singular simple present brushes out, present participle brushing out, simple past and past participle brushed out)

brushes out (present singular third-person)
brushing out (participle present)
brushed out (participle past)
brushed out (past)

(transitive, obsolete, printing) To clean a form using lye or turpentine.


slug out

slug out (third-person singular simple present slugs out, present participle slugging out, simple past and past participle slugged out)

slugs out (present singular third-person)
slugging out (participle present)
slugged out (participle past)
slugged out (past)

(transitive, obsolete, printing) To print (something) using slugs (A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine).


verbivocovisual

Coined by James Joyce in the experimental novel Finnegans Wake. Perhaps verbi- (from "verbiage"?) + Latin vocō ("to name") + visual, possibly influenced by Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry. Now frequently associated with Concrete poetry following its use by Augusto de Campos and other concrete poets in the mid-to-late 1950s.

In the view of the formalists, Italian futurism epitomized all that poetics should work against. This assessment, directed specifically at Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who visited Saint Petersburg and Moscow in February 1914, indicates the formalists' unwillingness to acknowledge the many poetic and artistic innovations shared by the Russian and Italian futurists. In the realm of Russian futurist book art and its Italian futurist analogue—the parole-in-libertà (words-in-freedom)—poetic language was transformed by the elimination of grammar and syntax, the experimentation with new arrangements of words and letters on the page, and the highlighting of language for its sonic expressivity. Both Russian futurist book art and the parole-in-libertà incorporated verbal, visual, and sonic elements into their art forms, although the Russians ventured much further into the verbivocovisual than did the Italians.

2016, Nancy Perloff, Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art, The Getty Research Institute, →ISBN, page 68:

Alicia Genovese details very well the definition of avant-garde Brazilian concretist poetry of the 1960s. She did this through a Joycean neologism by which poetry was verbivocovisual in a synthesis of materials with which the poem operates: the verb (the uses of language), the sound (including the rhythm), and the space (the visual). [...] The play with language(s), the mixing of registers and working with space (large blank spaces between words), the cutting off of words like dance steps, and the androgynous enunciation "rió [...]" from Poem 39, are there in order to tense (crispar) the expectations, those of the representation and reception, and to tell us that there are neither final nor definitive statements/utterances.

2016, Martins, Laura M, “Per-verse Latin American Women Poets”, in Rodríguez, Ileana, Szurmuk, Mónica, editors, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 518:

We saw that the verbal, visual and hearing aspects together help to give a more genuine and relevant significance to the popular symbolism. In some frames, if we focus only on the verbal elements and constructions, we are not able to identify any carnivalization, for example. But by observing the three dimensions together as one, verbivocovisually, we see that the background sound gives dialogues a more grotesque or carnivalesque sense. Lastly, we conclude that popular symbolisms are embedded into the scene through the verbivocovisual language. These symbols have as their main goal to create a distance, a break from the real world within the narrative. At the same time, the plot reminds us a great deal of the real world, both anchored in the fight for power.

2023, Pais, Ana Carolina, “The Symbology of Popular Culture in Game of Thrones: Carnivalization and Tyrion's Wedding Party”, in Álvarez-Ossorio, Alfonso, Lozano, Fernando, Soldevila, Rosario Moreno, Rosillo-López, Cristina, editors, Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities, Vol. 1: Time, Space and Culture, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 239:

(poetry) Composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.

Augusto de Campos
Concrete poetry
Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
experimental novel


zap over

zap over (third-person singular simple present zaps over, present participle zapping over, simple past and past participle zapped over)

zaps over (present singular third-person)
zapping over (participle present)
zapped over (participle past)
zapped over (past)

(transitive, television) To change television channels, especially rapidly.


anisong

en-noun

anisong (countable and uncountable, plural anisongs)

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From Japanese アニソン (anison), from アニ(メ) (anime) + ソン(グ) (songu), itself from English anime song. Equivalent to a blend of anime + song.

Another popular otaku cuisine is "Anisong" bars and karaoke. These bars and karaoke places offer a wide range of anime and manga-related songs and music videos, making them popular spots for otaku to gather and sing along to the songs from their favorite anime and manga series.

(Can we date this quote?), Claire Austin, Otaku Odyssey: Uncovering the Anime and Manga Subculture in Japan, T Turner, page 22:

Moving on, most, if not all, Japanese animations come with a unique opening (theme) and ending (theme) that belong to this genre called Anisong (short for Animation music/song). Although not actually knowing the lyrics of these songs back then, constantly listening to those catchy tunes caused a continuous growth in the interest I have in the Japanese popular culture.

2016 November 28, Tai Wei Lim, Merlion And Mt. Fuji: 50 Years Of Singapore-Japan Relations, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, page 220:

“Have no worries on that front,” Juna assured me. “She’s been singing sea shanties while out fishing, so she has a powerful voice, one that’s both feminine and masculine, and if you give her a cool song to sing, she can easily outdo me. I believe she’s a good match for those ‘anisongs’ you taught me, sire.”

2017 August 3, Dojyomaru, translated by Sean McCann, edited by Emily Sorensen, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, volume 3, J-Novel Club, page 20:

I study Japanese. My main study materials are anime and manga. Also, anisong and J-Pop. Then I read Japanese novels. I study.

2018 October, Ao Jyumonji, translated by Sean McCann, edited by Emily Sorensen, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, volume 11, J-Novel Club, page 157:

A bubbly person like Jun could easily party along with Reina and the girls, and also feel right at home doing a 100 Anisong Marathon with Kai. Kai definitely wasn’t a ‘party’ kind of guy, though! He had no idea what songs were popular. All he could sing were songs from anime.

2021 January 14, Akamitsu Awamura, translated by Kristine Johnson and airco, edited by Jennifer Sherman, She's the Cutest... But We're Just Friends!, volume 1, J-Novel Club, page 151:

(fandom slang, anime) An anime song; anime music.


multiversally

en-adv

multiversally (comparative more multiversally, superlative most multiversally)

more multiversally (comparative)
most multiversally (superlative)

The mission is critical but need not be rushed. The storm has been brewing for several weeks, and will not reach multiversally devastating proportions for a few months.

1980, TSR, Frank Mentzer, Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition: The Immortal Storm Complete, Rainbow Communications, →ISBN, page 25:

I have no knowledge of any Project 616,” I say. "I can only conjecture. Let me think.. .'616' is the multiversally agreed designature of this Universe.”

2014, Dan Abnett, Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Steal the Galaxy!: An Original Novel of the Marvel Universe, Marvel Worldwide, →ISBN, page 148:

Our answer: Well, duh! Multiversally, baby.

2016, Linda Varsell Smith, Star Stuff: A Soul-Splinter Experiences the Cosmos, Rainbow Communications, →ISBN, page 25:

(rare, physics, science fiction, fantasy, cosmology) In a multiversal manner.


self-sustenance

We are all for utility; and it would be ‘well that it should be so, if, like the boar of the forest, which delves up the flower to get at the root, we had no instincts beyond those of self-sustenance. But, as we have the immortal power of imagination, we are bound to provide nutriment for that celestial part of us, not less than for that which we hold in common with the brutes.

1830, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1830-02: Volume 27, Issue 162, Blackwood Pillans and Wilson, page 262:

This and other institutions have considered these questions anxiously and ceaselessly. They have endeavored to shape their plans of education and training for the future good, and, as far as possible, to secure the self-sustenance of their pupils.

1832, Perkins School for the Blind, Annual Report, Charles B. Slack, page 15:

The propensities have all reference to self-sustenance, self-gratification, or self-aggrandizement, and do not give rise to a single feeling of disinterested love or regard for the happiness of other beings. Even the domestic affections, wThen acting independently of the moral sentiments, prompt us to seek only a selfish gratification, without regard to the welfare of the beings who afford it.

1842, George Combe, Moral Philosophy, W. H. Colyer, page 168:

The enormous expense of supporting fourteen hundred persons — about one-five-hundredth part of the whole population of this commonwealth — in a state of idiocy : and 2d, the motives of humanity, to give, if possible, to these wretched creatures some idea of responsible life, some means and power of self-sustenance, and some self-respect.

1849, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Charles B. Slack, page 440:

When Sir Peregrine asked her whether he should seat her on the sofa, she slowly picked herself up, and, with her head still crouching toward the ground, placed herself where she before had been sitting. He had been afraid that she would have fainted, but she was not one of those women whose nature easily admits of such relief as that. Though she was always pale in color and frail-looking, there was within her a great power of self-sustenance. She was a woman who with a good cause might have dared any thing.

1850, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine, Harper & Brothers, page 640:

(physics, rare, fantasy, science fiction, biology) The independent sustenance of oneself, such as not requiring much oxygen to breathe or food to eat and liquids to drink like average species.


meatbrain

Installed on meatbrains whose habituation to computer-mediated activities has made them perilously vulnerable to infection by aggressive memes, the 'Babel' virus corrupts and overwrites the deep structures of human language, thereby 'crashing' the mind, and civilization with it.

2013, Joshua Raulerson, Singularities: Technoculture, Transhumanism, and Science Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 199:

The fact that programming languages often resemble English words like body or if is a convenient accommodation for our puny human meatbrains, which are much better at remembering commands that look like words we already know.

2019 April 8, Gretchen McCulloch, “Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-15:

(chiefly science fiction) A biological brain (as opposed to an artificial or man-made one).


inverted pyramid

en-noun

inverted pyramid (plural inverted pyramids)

(journalism) A structure of article-composition in which the key facts are given first (e.g. the headline and first paragraph) and auxiliary and circumstantial information is given in the following paragraphs.


object head

(fiction) A humanoid character with an object for a head.


Wendersian

As he elaborates the tale, we have a classic Wendersian mise-en-scène. Travis drives, and the sequence is filmed from his point of view, looking forwards out of the front windscreen of the car.

1996 March, Thomas Docherty, “Discourse and Figure: The Resistance of/to Cinema” (chapter 7), in Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, page 163:

(film) Of or pertaining to Wim Wenders (born 1945), German filmmaker and playwright.


lenticular bracket

lenticular bracket (plural lenticular brackets)

From lenticular + bracket, due to their resemblance to a lens.

(typography) Either of a pair of symbols,【 】, generally used in Chinese and Japanese dictionaries to enclose headwords, and sometimes for other purposes.


tortoise shell bracket

tortoise shell bracket (plural tortoise shell brackets)

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Calque from Japanese 亀(きっ)甲(こう)括(かっ)弧(こ) (kikkōkakko, literally “tortoise shell bracket”), due to their resemblance to the shell of a tortoise. By surface analysis, tortoise shell + bracket.

surf

(typography) Either of a pair of symbols,〔 〕, sometimes used in Japanese to enclose comments in quoted text.


-pody

From Ancient Greek -ποδία (-podía) from πούς (poús, “foot”).

(poetry) A unit or line consisting of a specified number of metrical feet


Y&R

The Young and the Restless
w:The Young and the Restless

(television) Initialism of The Young and the Restless: an American television soap opera first broadcast in 1973.


OLTL

(television) Initialism of One Life to Live: an American television soap opera broadcast from 1968 to 2013.


water sprite

(folklore) A general term for an elemental spirit associated with water, said to be able to breathe water or air and sometimes is able to fly.


gentry bush

(Ireland, folklore) A thorny bush, especially a hawthorn.


stim pack

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His father said, “Look, son, you're shaky. Sit down, take a stim pack. I got to deal with this right now.”

1983, Gregory Benford, Against Infinity, Timescape Books, page 117:

Meds, he thought, need meds. Shut off the damn pain. Got to grab a few stim packs.

2009, Matthew Costello, Doom 3: Maelstrom, Pocket Books, page 49:

The alien chose a stim pack from the kit. “This one, I believe.” He pressed it against the dying soldier.

2013, Kevin J. Anderson, “Comrades in Arms”, in Five by Five, WordFire Press, page 63:

Given how much you’ll be using Slow Mode, you can basically think of this Perk as picking up a few extra Stim Pack charges. In other words, it’s incredibly powerful.

2023 May 1, Matthew Byrd, “Jedi Survivor: Where to Find the Most Powerful Perks”, in Den of Geek!:

(science fiction, video games) A medicine, device, or similar item used to restore health or to relieve fatigue or pain.


mind break

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(fiction, chiefly pornography) Dramatic loss of rational thought after excessive sexual abuse.


porn tube

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From porn (“pornography”) + tube (“a television”). Probably originates from the tendency of early pornographic video-sharing websites to model their names after YouTube (“an American video-sharing website”), such as Xtube (launched 12 March 2006), RedTube (25 April 2007) and Tube8 (2007).

compound

Theres a porn tube category for 'Violent Vomiting" wtffff

When you're on a porn tube, click a video and it says 'Sorry, This video is Deleted'
Depressing as fuck

stileproject is literally just a porn tube site now. helluva fuckin pivot, holy shit

2018 December 8, @HotTopicDropout, Twitter:

I linked to a preview because Reddit deletes porn tubes links, but you can find it easily on Google

2021 August 24, u/Ruizhen08, “[Request] videos where stepmom is tricked or convinced into sex”, in r/NSFW411, Reddit:

"Porn tubes" and free content are great and all but if you really like those classic bondage clips or whathave you. You should really consider buying them from the producer. It's totally worth it and looks so much clearer.

2022 December 28, @TreeHornTaped, Twitter:

All hail XVID
which now sounds like a porn tube site

2024 May 25, u/flcinusa, “When something doesn't play in another media player you know vlc got you covered.”, in r/pcmasterrace, Reddit:

(pornography, Internet slang, colloquial) A pornographic video-sharing (or hosting) website.


airsuit

... and in a paroxysm of fury clawed at the convict's airsuit as though he could rip the fabric apart with his bare hands.

1951, Martin Greenberg (editor), Travelers of Space, Volume 7, page 122:

Opening the forward hatch, he winched down the little platform flyer, loaded aboard a spare airsuit and spare tanks of oxygen, and without further ceremony set out for Thumbnail Gulch

1964, Jack Vance, The Star King, page 130:

He stopped removing his airsuit and pulled it back on again, all but the helmet, which he left lying on the ground.

2013, Gordon R. Dickson, The Pritcher Mass:

Spacemen call it an “airsuit liner” because it is made to fit under an airsuit and is padded and reinforced at the friction points.


OpenType

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(computing, typography) A file format, developed jointly by Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Inc., for storing computer fonts.


TrueType

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(computing, typography) a file format for storing computer fonts developed by Apple Inc.


Panama Papers

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(business, journalism, crime) A trove of leaked documents that were published in 2016.


archdivinity

One myth asserts that it was first used in designating the archdivinity of Yorubaland.

2004, Philip M. Peek, Kwesi Yankah, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia, page 833:

(theology, rare, religion, fantasy, science fiction) A chief or reigning divinity, particularly in a polytheistic system.


trend piece

By the time J. made the List, another variety had been identified and sanctioned by the junketeers. The trend piece.

2001, Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days:

Instead of complaining that the author didn’t take into account that every individual is his or her own special flower, why not enjoy this lively, charming sketch of a workplace for what it is? An impressionistic and lighthearted rendering of a clever, mildly provocative idea. In other words, a trend piece.

2016 March 24, Leon Neyfakh, “In Defense of the Trend Piece”, in Slate, →ISSN:

The 31-year-old singer has generated countless headlines and trend pieces after the release of her sixth studio album in June, but she’s been working in the industry for more than 15 years now.

2024 July 26, Nadia Khomami, Lanre Bakare, “Charli xcx: from slow burn pop star to ‘brat’ US election influencer”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(journalism) An article explaining a trend or topical issue, often illustrated with anecdotes, statistics, and expert opinions.


starline

At the gate terminals that serviced the various commercial passenger starlines, thousands of beings—humanoid and non—went about their business laboring in numerous capacities to keep the port operating smmothly, cleanly, and safely.

2007, Cory Williams, The Taking of Cyndriel's Hope, page 14:

Passengers transshipping to other starlines should go to the nearest routing desk at once.

2011, Robert Silverberg, The Silent Invaders:

These starlines are integral to the megacorporate business model, used for both transportation of raw materials and finished goods for all of the businesses within the corporate group.

(science fiction) A company that flies commercial starships.


lockoff

A shot in which the camera changes position, via a pan, dolly, truck, crane, and/or boom, during the filming of aciton. Opposite of a lockoff shot.

2001, Karen Goulekas, Visual Effects in a Digital World, page 325:

In my experience, a completely static shot is more noticeable than a shot that makes subtle adjustments for things like headroom, which is essentially what you're talking about. I think most of the time those slight adjustments are needed to keep a shot properly composed, but when you do do a complete lockoff it stands out and can have a nice effect.

2008 October 20, Brad Grimmett, “Operated camera vs. locked off shots”, in cinematography.com:

But for a rack, unlock the focus channel, lock the rest of the channels (assuming this is a lockoff shot—racks usually are), and then solve for the lens.

2013, Erica Hornung, The Art and Technique of Matchmoving, page 90:

The dance is performed in succession in a lockoff shot.

2016 June 13, Ian Smith, “Annabelle Serpentine Dance is the world’s first hand-tinted motion from 1895, and it’s quite spectacular”, in The Vintage News:

(film) A type of shot in which the camera is fixed to a mount and unable to move.


HUT

(broadcasting) Acronym of home/household using television.


mojo hand

(African-American, spirituality, folklore) A small flannel bag containing one or more magical items.

African-American; spirituality; African-American; spirituality


slow-burn

en-adj

slow-burn (comparative more slow-burn, superlative most slow-burn)

more slow-burn (comparative)
most slow-burn (superlative)

Clarke and Lexa's slow-burn romance—and the fan fiction that Vi devoured about it —led to her joining Tumblr and starting to write her own fanfic.

2018, Jessica Spotswood, The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls, unnumbered page:

Since most respondents who prefer slow-burn fics are on the asexual spectrum, this is not surprising, as they are less likely to desire sexual experiences with others in general.

2018, Lindsay Mixer, "'And Then They Boned': An Analysis Of Fanfiction And Its Influence On Sexual Development", thesis submitted Humboldt State University, page 48

Slow burn fics, for instance, can go as far as having seventy thousand words before the character pairing even interacts.

2020, Shania O'Brien, "The horny POV: Evolution of modern fanfiction", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 5, Semester 5 (2020), page 18

(idiomatic) Emerging or unfolding slowly or gradually.

(fiction, fandom slang, of a romantic relationship) Developing slowly over the course of the story.


cyberprep

From cyber- + prep, as a response to cyberpunk.

Cyberprep is one answer to the Cyberpunk movement, a peachy keen one.

1987 May 1, Mark L. Blackman, APA-Filk, number 34, published 1987 April 23:

The cyberprep movement (such as it is, ha ha) takes as its motto: "Whatever you do, remember, be polite".

1987 September 27, Laurence R. Brothers, “Early Cyberpunk?”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet):

Cyberprep is thematically more optimistic, a broad difference expressed in small changes in the text, such as the likelihood chat body modification in a cyberprep work is done for the sake of aesthetics, rather than function or need. Put simply, cyberprep offers “a slick, clean, rosy view of the future to contrast cyberpunk's dirty, grim dystopias” (Bell 4).

2014, Tanya R. Cochran, Sherry Ginn, Paul Zinder, editors, The Multiple Worlds of Fringe: Essays on the J.J. Abrams Science Fiction Series, McFarland & Company, Inc., pages 156-157:

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction which, like cyberpunk, focuses on technological advancements, but presents life as utopian and leisure-driven rather than gritty and dangerous (as in cyberpunk).


super deformed

Borrowed from Japanese スーパーデフォルメ (sūpādeforume), from スーパー (sūpā, “super-”) + デフォルメ (deforume, “stylistic distortion”).

ja-r

(anime, manga) In Japanese caricature, drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads.


Mincho

Borrowed from Japanese 明(みん)朝(ちょう) (Minchō, literally “Ming Dynasty”). Doublet of Myeongjo, borrowed from Korean.

There are two popular styles of Kanji character fonts: “Mincho” and “Gothic.”[…]"Mincho" has thin horizontal strokes and thick vertical ones.[…]The role of “Mincho” in Japanese is similar to Roman style, and that of “Gothic” is similar to Bold face style.

1991 November 29, Robert A. Morris, Jacques André, Raster Imaging and Digital Typography II: Proceedings of the Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, Boston 1991, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 149:

The two typefaces Mincho and Gothic are most widely used. Mincho is serif and is used for main body text. Gothic is sans serif and is used mainly for headings.

1997 May 2, Horst Bunke, Patrick S. P. Wang, Handbook Of Character Recognition And Document Image Analysis, World Scientific Publishing, →ISBN, page 298:

(typography) A style of typeface used to display kanji and kana in Japanese, roughly analogous in appearance to serif typefaces.


Mincho

(typography) Of a Japanese font or typeface, being in the Mincho style.


Oldspeak

From old + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Standard English
Standard English#English


duocase

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Coordinate term: monocase

Before the introduction of the IBM 1050, printing terminals had been limited to single case capability. But the use of an electric typewriter on the 1050 would give the capability of duocase printing—capital letters and small letters. This duocase capability was held to be a very significant marketing factor.

1980, Charles E. McKenzie, “The Size and Structure of PTTC” (chapter 6), in Coded Character Sets: History and Development (The Systems Programming Series), Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 106:

(computing, typography, rare) Supporting or consisting of both uppercase and lowercase letters.


monocase

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Coordinate term: bicameral

American and European programmers are often surprised to discover that not all locales use a two-case alphabet. Eastern languages (e.g., Japanese and Chinese) based on ideograms are monocase; while Middle Eastern languages can have four or more cases.

1996, David A. Schmitt, “Using Locale Information and Unicode” (chapter 8), in Extending the MFC Library: Add Useful Reusable Features to the Microsoft Foundation Class Library, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Developers Press, →ISBN, page 163:

Dine 1 is a ‘monocase’ font that consists of a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. It was designed that way to provide each letter character with a distinct shape without compromising any meaning associated with that shape.

2012, Robert Hillier, “The Design and Development of the Sylexiad Typeface”, in Nicola Brunswick, editor, Supporting Dyslexic Adults in Higher Education and the Workplace, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 189:

(linguistics, typography) Of a script or typeface: having only one case, making no distinction between upper and lower case.

Coordinate term: duocase

The program prompts for the old password (if any) and then for the new one (twice). The caller must supply these. New passwords should be at least four characters long if they use a sufficiently rich alphabet and at least six characters long if monocase. Only the first eight characters of the password are significant.

1985, Rebecca Thomas, Jean Yates, “Text Processing” (chapter 5), in A User Guide to the UNIX System, 2nd edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 281:

The Standard chose to stay with the old restrictions on these external names: they are not guaranteed to be different unless they differ from each other in the first six characters. Worse than that, upper and lower case letters may be treated the same! […] There is nothing to prevent any specific implementation from giving better limits than these, but for maximum portability the six monocase characters must be all that you expect.

1988, Mike Banahan, “Variables and Arithmetic” (chapter 2), in The C Book: Featuring the Draft ANSI C Standard, Wokingham: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 23:

(computing, typography) Supporting or consisting of only one case of letters; either all uppercase or all lowercase; (also), case insensitive, treating upper and lower case as being the same.


Selenian

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


back-pager

(journalism) An article published on the back page.


Perditean

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Perdita.


Julietian

(literature) Of or relating to the character Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.


Mabian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Queen Mab.


Biancan

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Bianca.


Cressidian

(literature) Of or relating to the Chaucerian and Shakespearean character Cressida.


Desdemonan

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Desdemona.


Sycoraxian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Sycorax.


Setebosian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Setebos.


Calibanian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Caliban.


Prosperonian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Prospero.


Ferdinandian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Ferdinand.


Stephanonian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Stephano.


Margaretian

/ˌmɑːrɡəˈrɛtiən/

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Margaret.


Rosalindian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Rosalind.


steamfunk

Blend of steampunk + funk. Popularized by the 2013 short story anthology Steamfunk! co-edited by Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade.

By reimagining the past, Nisi Shawl’s steamfunk novel “Everfair” soars towards a feminist, afrofuturist vision of liberational technology.

2016 November 19, Ida Yoshinaga, Lynette James, “Labors of Hope and Liberation: Nisi Shawl’s Steamfunk Novel “Everfair””, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that combines elements of steampunk with a focus on Black culture and Afrofuturism.


cannon roll

(film) A type of stunt in the early days of cinema in which a roll is induced by turning the car sharply and firing a piston into the ground from the underside of the car.


soft media

en-noun

soft media (usually uncountable, plural soft medias)

(journalism) Any type of media organization that deals primarily with commentary, entertainment, arts and lifestyle.


hackware

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(computing, chiefly science fiction) Software used for hacking (circumventing security measures).


not for attribution

(US, journalism) Indicating that a source must not be named.


clurichaun

The residents of a house would leave offerings for the clurichaun, who sing in Gaelic with enchantingly beautiful voices. Related to leprechauns, clurichauns are house faeries who specialize in caring for and protecting wine and beer cellars.

2012, Sirona Knight, Wiccan Spell A Night, Kensington Publishing, unnumbered page:

2016, Keith B. Darrell, Flashbacks: Fangs & Fur, Book 1, Amber Book Company, unnumbered page,
"Clurichauns are Dark Fae cousins of leprechauns," Aurae explained. "Unlike their Seelie Court cousins, the clurichauns drink to excess and are seldom sober. But despite always being drunk, the clurichauns are impeccably groomed and well-dressed... although they can be a bit surly."

(Irish folklore) A mischievous, potentially malicious fairy, akin to the leprechaun, that greatly loves drinking and tends to haunt breweries, pubs and wine cellars.


puppygirl

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(Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who has a dog's ears, tail, or other canine characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.


iyashikei

Borrowed from Japanese 癒(いや)し系(けい) (iyashikei).

(Japanese fiction) A genre of slice of life fiction, portraying characters living out peaceful lives in calming environments, intended to have a healing effect on the audience.


shuttlebay

From shuttle + bay, the word originally appeared in Star Trek, but has since appeared in a variety of other science-fiction and fantasy contexts.

SET THE SHUTTLECRAFT'S LOCATION TO THE SHUTTLEBAY;

1978, Roger Garrett, The Complete Star Ship: A Simulation Project, Dilithium Press, page 99:

[…] human shapes could be seen using floaters to shift containers from building to shuttlebay and vice versa.

1980, Alan Dean Foster, Cachalot, Ballantine Books, page 31:

The shuttlebay workers were gathered in front of the intranet screen, waiting for news.

2005, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowel The Opal Deception, page 200:

(science fiction) A part of a starship in which space shuttles are kept.


ad interim copyright

ad interim copyright (usually uncountable, plural ad interim copyrights)

(publishing) A special short-term copyright valid for five years from the date of its first publication, applied to certain books and periodicals in the English language.


Chocolate Factory

Humorous nickname of Google, coined by the UK technological newspaper The Register.

The Chocolate Factory has appealed the Epic verdict and also plans to challenge the DoJ's victory.

2024 August 15, Thomas Claburn, “Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious”, in The Register:


2.5D musical

Coined by Makoto Matsuda in 2014, when he established the Japan 2.5-Dimensional Musical Association.

(theater, drama) A type of modern Japanese musical theater production which adapts stories originally presented in a two-dimensional medium (anime, manga, or video games).


xenoarcheological

en-adj

xenoarcheological (comparative more xenoarcheological, superlative most xenoarcheological)

more xenoarcheological (comparative)
most xenoarcheological (superlative)

Penetrating scans have revealed large numbers of hollow, unpowered objects with dimensions of 3.14 by 12.56 by 28.26 meters circulating in the equatorial cloud bands. These objects appear to have "sails" or "wings" attached, allowing them to be borne aloft by Anjea's winds. While they are too deep to be reached for study, popular conjecture in xenoarcheological circles holds that they are "coffins" of an ancient race who laid their dead to rest in the gas giant.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2: Normandy Crash Site (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Anjea:

(science fiction) Of or pertaining to xenoarchaeology.


film score

(film, music) Original music that is written specifically to accompany a film.


foxboy

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(fiction) A male fictional character who has a fox's ears, tail, or other fox-like characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.


foxgirl

/ˈfɔksˌɡɜːl/

/ˈfɔksˌɡɜɹl/

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(fiction) A female fictional character who has a fox's ears, tail, or other fox-like characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.


ghost bullet

People believe that a beast shoots "ghost bullets" when they ford a stream in Sihch'uan at any time except the winter months .

1968, Wolfram Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, page 195:

The leaves were used in the removal of ghost bullets " (supernatural objects that were shot into people by ghosts).

Pushing Teddy off, ignoring the part of him that mourned the loss—not the time, dumbass, not the time, ghosts were kind of a big fucking deal—he scrambled to his knees and looked at where the ghost had tried to put a ghost bullet in his brain.

"Somebody shot the doctor," the big police sergeant said. "It wasn't a ghost bullet; it was lead.

It was a ward against ghosts, but he was pretty sure it wasn't going to stop a ghost bullet.

2017, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors, page 105:

He ain't shootin' ghost bullets, neither. Here's his slug.

2020, Kenneth Robeson, The Squeaking Goblin, page 66:

(folklore or fantasy) A supernatural bullet that wounds or kills a person, especially one that is shot by a supernatural assailant.


bakunyu

Borrowed from Japanese 爆(ばく)乳(にゅう) (bakunyū), from 爆(ばく) (baku, “bursting”) + 乳(にゅう) (nyū, “breast”).

(pornography) A genre of Japanese pornography characterized by featuring women with extremely large breasts; chiefly found in hentai, though also in live-action pink films.


bus plunge

en-noun

bus plunge (countable and uncountable, plural bus plunges)

We ran a bus plunge story on page 6 to fill the empty space so we could make deadline.
(In journalism contexts, the omission of an article such as "the" before "deadline" is idiomatic.)

(journalism, idiomatic, often uncountable) A phrase often used in filler story headlines in print newspapers, prior to the adoption of computer-aided typesetting and publishing methods, as it filled out the usual width of a column in the eight-column layout then prevalent in the industry.

(often followed by "story") A specific instance of such a story.

(by extension) A similar example in other media of a filler story.

1935 January, “BUS PLUNGE INJURES SIX FROM NEW YORK; Vehicle Goes Over High Embankment in 'the Narrows' at Lewistown, Pa.”, in The New York Times (newspaper), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 2024-09-30, page 5

“One of them said to me, ‘We’re keeping up the bus plunges in your absence,’ or words to that effect,” says Siegal. Bus plunges had become an inside joke, with editors scouting the wires for new ones.

2006 November, Jack Shafer, “The Rise and Fall of the “Bus Plunge” Story”, in Slate, The Slate Group, archived from the original on 2024-06-25:

Here's the thing about newspapers: they can't publish blank space. You've gotta put something in there. So editors started putting in lots of "bus plunge" briefs because they were short, simple, and filled space easily.

2012 October, George Patrick, “Why Buses Always Plunge But Never Fall, Drop, Descend Or Plummet”, in Jalopnik, G/O Media, archived from the original on 2024-08-29:


xenogenetics

(science fiction) A fictional science, concerned with the study of genetic makeup of extraterrestrial species.


non-Newtonian drive

(science fiction) A device that can generate thrust without accelerating matter in the opposite direction.


race film

race film (countable and uncountable, plural race films)

(film) A genre of film produced in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for black audiences, and featuring black casts; any such film.


autopaizuri

autopaizuri (plural autopaizuri or autopaizuris)

autopaizuri (plural)
autopaizuris (plural)

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(pornography) An act or instance of paizuri on oneself; sexual stimulation on the penis using one's breasts.


Ceaușescu moment

Ceaușescu moment (plural Ceaușescu moments)

Coined by The Economist when comparing a speech by Tony Blair on 7 June 2000 with Nicolae Ceaușescu's last speech on 21 December 1989:
:But when the prime minister gulped and started to skip over chunks of his text in the face of the unexpected heckles and slow hand-claps from the unthreatening, decent folk of the Women's Institute, it was uncannily reminiscent of the moment in 1989 when the obedient masses of Bucharest startled Nicolae Ceausescu by their sudden decision to boo. The dictator on his balcony raised his hands, looked puzzled, stepped backwards—and the rest is history.

2000 June 8, “The Ceausescu moment”, in The Economist

2003 July 15, Boris Johnson Zimbabwe Hansard Vol. 409 Part 429 col. 6WH
One way or another, Mugabe will go and it will be sooner rather than later. It is a question for him: does he want to go like Ian Smith and continue to live in Harare or does he want a Ceausescu moment?

I myself became certain that Saddam had reached his fin de régime, or his Ceauşescu moment, when he celebrated his 100-percent win in the “referendum” of 2003 by releasing all the nonpolitical prisoners (the rapists and thieves and murderers who were his natural constituency) from Abu Ghraib.

2005 May 9, Christopher Hitchens, “Abu Ghraib Isn’t Guernica”, in Slate:

John McCririck, the racing pundit and former Big Brother contestant, later described it as a Ceausescu moment. Galloway had primed himself for adulation, only to stand above the crowd and find that his waving did not mute their howling.

2006 January 28, Shane Hegarty, “Profile George Galloway: Cat who didn't get the cream”, in The Irish Times:

The kind of civil upheaval that many abroad had expected and planned for with Fidel out of the picture simply did not transpire. There was no Ceausescu moment.

2009, Julia Sweig, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 209:

The late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il admitted to Hyundai founder Chung Ju Yung to having dreams where he was stoned to death in the public square by his people. What the Dear Leader feared was his "Ceauşescu moment" (which can now also be understood as a “Qaddafi moment”).

2012, Victor Cha, Nicholas Anderson, “North Korea after Kim Jong Il”, in North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 104:

2021 February 22, James Macpherson, “The Australian Open booing: Daniel Andrews’ Ceausescu moment?”, in Spectator Australia

Was the European Super League fiasco the Ceausescu moment for neoliberalism?

2021 April 24, David McWilliams, “A 30-year economic supercycle ended this week”, in The Irish Times:

2021 December 21, David Osland, “Ceaușescu moment for Boris Johnson at the World Darts Championship”, in Labour Hub

(chiefly politics, journalism) A moment when a public figure is booed in public; (by extension) a moment when a person or regime previously considered unassailable suddenly looks vulnerable; the outbreak of a revolution.


imbunche

(folklore) In Chilote folklore, a deformed humanoid monster that protects the entrance to a warlock's cave.


visual effects

visual effects pl (normally plural, singular visual effect)

(film) The totality of techniques in filmmaking and video production by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of live-action shots.


toyol

(folklore) An undead infant in Indonesian and Malay folklore, typically invoked as a helper by black magic.


futadom

futadom (countable and uncountable, plural futadoms)

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From futa + dom, short for domination or dominance.

(BDSM, Japanese pornography, uncountable) A sexual practice in which futanari dominate other people.

(BDSM, Japanese pornography, countable) A futanari dominator in sadomasochistic sexual practices.


single-minded branding moment

single-minded branding moment (usually uncountable, plural single-minded branding moments)

(television, marketing) A moment in a commercial where the brand being advertised is the sole focus of the audience's attention.


VSYNC

Coordinate term: HSYNC

(television) Abbreviation of vertical synchronization.


inumimi

From Japanese 犬(いぬ)耳(みみ) (inumimi), from 犬(いぬ) (inu, “dog”) + 耳(みみ) (mimi, “ear”).

(Japanese fiction) A humanoid fictional character who possesses dog ears and/or tail.


whiteletter

Coordinate term: black letter

(typography, historical) A light roman and italic letterform favored by humanist scribes and typographers in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries.


futanarization

futanarization (countable and uncountable, plural futanarizations)

/ˌfuː.təˌnɑː.ɹɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

(Japanese pornography) The act, process, or instance of becoming a futanari, usually by a female growing a penis.


magnet play

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Ratchet did the mech a favor and didn’t look at him while he recovered. He turned the seed magnet around in his pliers instead, examining it. […] ¶ “You should get a spotter if you’re going to experiment with magnets,” he said, once he figured Jazz was halfway to calm again. […] “Look, I’ve done magnet play, I’m not judging, but this thing is too powerful for how small it is. You’re lucky it didn’t get into your energon system.”

2023 March 27, neveralarch, “A Miracle Opened Wide”, in Archive Of Our Own (fan fiction), archived from the original on 2024-08-08:

Are nipple piercings magnetic?? That would be so fun if they were... imagine magnet play 😵💫

2023 December 13, @mementoviviere, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-11-05:

(BDSM, science fiction) Any sexual activity involving magnets.


technical rehearsal

technical rehearsal (countable and uncountable, plural technical rehearsals)

(music, film, theater) A rehearsal that focuses on the technological aspects of the performance, such as lighting and stage arrangement.


shot-on-video

(film, television) Of a film, shot using camcorders and consumer-grade equipment.


spirit master

(historical, printing) A two-ply sheet used in a spirit duplicator, in which the top sheet could be typed, drawn, or written upon, and the second sheet was coated with a layer of colored wax.


archemperor

To the most reverend, reverend, reverend and reverend, princes and lords, Mr. Albrecht, cardinal priest, archbishop in Mainz and Magdeburg, primate; Mr. Hermann, archbishop in Cologne; Mr. Johann Ludewig, elected archbishop in Trier 2c.; Ludwig, Count Palatine of the Rhine; Joachim, Margrave of Brandenburg, of the Holy Roman Empire through Germany, Italy, and France Archchancellors, Archtruchsesses, and Archemperors, and Princes; Mr. Ernest, Archbishop in Salzburg 2c., and Mr. Wilhelm, bishop in Strasbourg; Wilhelm and Ludwig, brothers, dukes in Upper and Lower Bavaria 2c., Wilhelm, dukes in Julich and Cleve 2c., deputized and appointed princes to the appointed conversation at Worms 2c., S. gracious princes and lords. 1)

1901, Martin Luther, Dr. Martin Luthers Sämmtliche Schriften, Volume 17, Superintendent of Documents, pages 398-399:

You can become Grand Emperor. Then Archemperor.

2017 May 7, loonyphoenix, “I was excited for a second”, in reddit.com:

Apart from going into titles that describe a being itself rather than assigning it a 'rank' (ex.: god, observer, master, etc.), I think you'll pretty much hit the ceiling at "Archemperor". After that, you may have to rely on your own creative etymology skills!

2021 November 1, LastFormorian, PETBOTOSRS, “Rulers with "arch" in their name”, in reddit.com:

(fantasy, science fiction, very rare) A supreme emperor.


hypercannon

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"You'll have to use the hypercannon", the professor answered.

1994, Dina Anastasio, Virtual Troopers: Virtual Reality Magician, Price Stern Sloan, →ISBN, page 136:

Notice that this law also states that we cannot hope to achieve superluminal (faster than light) speeds with a hypercannon mounted on a relativistic spaceship.

2005, John F. Hawley, Katherine A. Holcomb, Foundations of Modern Cosmology, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 193:

Once I realize what I am looking, I have some doubts that this hypercannon is going to be any use to us.

2014, Cynthia Green, Scott Green, GunKnight, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, page 237:

(science fiction, video games, rare, weaponry, fantasy) An extraordinarily powerful, superior cannon.


headline style

This name for the concept (one of several names for it) comes from the widespread (albeit not universal) practice of using this casing in newspaper headlines.