Brobot

-butter pats for Dad , and lug nuts for Brobot- Thanks Kumquat! Thanks. Mom! Oh look. Brobot, it's your brother! Hey, Jimmy. You're naked. In the tub!

2003, John A. Davis, Jimmy Neutron, Tokyopop, →ISBN:

The gravitational laws of space allow Brobot's potential to be fully realized!

Martha Brockenbrough, Samantha Berger. Brobot did not sputter , cough , wheeze , or SPLORK ! He beep - bloop - bweedle - eedle - eeped ! BROBOT WAS ALIVE ! " I have a brother ! A ROBOT BROTHER !

2020, Martha Brockenbrough, Samantha Berger, Bigfoot Wants a Little Brother, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

This will give you a good insight into personality too, as Brobot's code is written to hassle its users and act just like a 'bro'.

2020, Nicola O’Brien, Heather Catchpole, Ready, Set, Code!: Coding Activities for Kids, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 23:

(science fiction) A name given to a robot that emulates a brother.


microdetonator

The microdetonators, manufactured commercially, utilize a material that includes lead styphnate. This detonator is readily ignited by laser energy but is relatively insensitive to other stimuli.

1981, NASA Tech Briefs, volume 6, page 24:

As soon as they were down, Landor hit the microdetonators he had installed in the few seconds he'd had. There was a tiny crack, and the wall of the water storage area crumbled into a side corridor.

2014, Allan Kaster, Stephen Baxter, Michael Blumlein, The Year's Top Short SF Novels 4:

(chiefly science fiction) A very small detonator.


photoplayer

Small theatres usually had a photoplayer or "pit organ" located beneath the screen in the orchestra pit.

1967, Q. David Bowers, A Guidebook of Automatic Musical Instruments, volume 1, Vestal Press, page 7:

(historical, film) An orchestrion in the silent film era.


Gill Sans

All lettering will be of the gill sans type on a background of the regional colour, and all signs will consist of enamelled metal plates of certain standard sizes which will allow ample areas of background and give a high degree of clarity to the lettering.

1949 July and August, “Notes and News: Standard Station Signs”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:

(typography) An easy-to-read style of sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill.


combined print

(film) A film print including both the picture and the soundtrack.


Five Poisons

(folklore) Five animals regarded as poisonous or otherwise hazardous in Chinese folklore: typically snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads, and spiders.


back of the book

"Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news.

1999, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution, page 97:

The change in the hard/soft news ratio has taken on several forms. In the print media, the change can be seen clearly by the expansion of "back of the book" sections, for example, about subjects as varied as science and gardening. Television has no formal back of the book, but there are now fewer sections devoted to domestic and international political news.

2004, Herbert J. Gans, Democracy and the News, page 29:

Some magazines use the back-of-the-book merely for story “jumps” (continuations of articles from the feature well). Others fill the back-of-the-book with additional departments and columns.

2014, Christopher D. Benson, Charles F. Whitaker, Magazine Writing:

(publishing, broadcasting) Less important or less hard-hitting material relegated to the later pages of a print publication or the later stages of a television broadcast.


keystrip

He froze a moment there, keystrip already against the contact plate, hesitant to go on.

1975, Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, page 117:

You'll need your keystrip to reenter.

2014, Pat Cadigan, Pat Cadigan SF Gateway Omnibus:

(science fiction) A long thin piece of material that serves to operate a lock.


hoverpack

(science fiction) A piece of equipment that is strapped to a person's back and allows them to hover in the air.


radio edit

From radio + edit. First use appears c. 1982 in Billboard. See cite below.

The contest calls for a 15 to 17 minute mixed program (on cassette or 7½ ips quarter-track tape reel) of West End material only, and a five minute radio edit, marked with the DJ's name and address on the box.

July 3, 1982, Brian Chin, Billboard, page 40:

(music, radio) A modified version of a song, typically truncated or censored, intended to make it more suitable for airplay.


spokesbeing

By analogy from spokesman, spokesperson, etc., with being.

(science fiction) A spokesperson, whether human or extraterrestrial.


satfeed

(informal, chiefly science fiction) satellite feed


Santa Paws

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No no not Santa Paws! Bean O'brien. Everyone deserves a second chance maybe he was just being a poophead cuz he need a hug Bessa Phaneuf. You a bad troll...!! Mattie Bissmeyer. He's a very norty Troll. But i don't like to see anyone cry ...

year unknown, Josephine Tuckfield, Saving Santa Paws, Lulu.com

It turned out that Snowy was upset because at Christmas all the animals are left out and he wants to be SANTA PAWS. Well, Ithought what a great idea this was and went back into the room and said to Snowy, “What a kind dog you are ...

2009, Buckham Derek, Santa's Christmas Story Book, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 24:

Duke happily trotted to the main stand Where Santa Paws sat, all dressed in red and looking very grand. The mall was filled with Christmas delight; Mistletoe, holly and Santa were a welcoming sight. Duke happily trotted to the main ...

2011, Blossom Albuquerque, Dashing Duke and His Dodgy Adventures, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 28:

"Santa Paws is always willing to hear Christmas wishes." He winkedat Eva as Savannah buried her head under Eva's arm. "Aww, don't be afraid, sweetie. He won't bite." "Unless you're a cookie." Adam struggled to get the Santa cookie he'd ...

2014, Meda White, Christmas Give: A Holiday Novella, Meda White, →ISBN:

Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too! Brittni Vega. plate of cookies and a glass of milk. I don't mean to ruin the . . . I am almost twelve in dog years. I stopped believing in Santa Paws a few months ago.

2015, Brittni Vega, Harlow & Indiana (and Reese): Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too!, Penguin, →ISBN:

Santa Paws knows Santa Claus, because he was his first and favourite pet. Santa Claus loved Santa Paws so much, that every Christmas, Santa Claus would take Santa Paws with him in his sleigh. Santa Paws would look at the beautiful night ...

2017, Hanna L. Farha, Santa Paws, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

When Belle opened her eyes , she saw Santa Paws. " I got your letter , Belle , " chuckled Santa Paws. " I have to say, when I was a young pup, I also made some mistakes. Look at me now! I grew up just fine!

2020, Sara J J Gunkel, Dear Santa Paws, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN, page 13:

(humorous, fiction) An equivalent to Santa Claus as an anthropomorphic dog or cat.


vim vitae

From Latin vim (“energy, force, power, strength”) + vita (“life”).

der

(fiction, fantasy, supernatural, paranormal) life force

supernatural; paranormal; supernatural; paranormal


comprachico

Coined from Spanish roots by the French writer Victor Hugo in his 1869 novel L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs). The word is not generally known in Spanish.

But here in England a comprachico is equal to a murderer, a candidate for the hangman's noose.

1969, Günther Weisenborn, The Man Without a Face, page 10:

He is angry and equips himself accordingly—with a penknife to give the offender a comprachico countenance, a mirror to show him the effect, and a pair of nailed boots to give him his dismissal.

2016, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus:

(folklore) A person who deliberately mutilates a growing child in order to induce freakish physical traits.


artworking

The specialist makers of prosthetics are part chemist, part artist and part engineer. Each tends to specialise in a particular area, such as sculpting, mould making, foaming latex, knotting hair into the pieces, colouring or artworking.

2003, Penny Delamar, The Complete Make-up Artist:

(television) The addition of small artistic details to a scene, prop, or prosthetic.


dirty down

en-verb

dirty down (third-person singular simple present dirties down, present participle dirtying down, simple past and past participle dirtied down)

dirties down (present singular third-person)
dirtying down (participle present)
dirtied down (participle past)
dirtied down (past)

(transitive, television) To give (a set or a prop) an impression of wear and tear by spraying it unevenly with dye.


closed period

(UK, television) A period of time on a Saturday during which football matches may not be broadcast (so as to avoid reduced attendance in person at other football matches that are not being televised).

(UK, television) A period of time each week that is officially dedicated to religious broadcasting.


Rip Van Winkle

From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (1819).

That is, it makes a lot of sense to see Biden’s problems getting his plans across the finish line as being caused by the Rip Van Winkle caucus, Democrats who checked out intellectually a couple of decades ago and haven’t caught up with America as it now is.

2021 September 27, Paul Krugman, “Biden Versus the Rip Van Winkle Caucus”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The characters do seem Rip Van Winkle-like, as they stumble upon and blink in amazement at very unsurprising things. “Wow! Instagram? Podcasts?” marvels Miranda at some of Carrie’s latest endeavors, as if these were edgy new enterprises.

2022 January 5, Rhonda Garelick, “Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A Tory Rip Van Winkle waking from decades of sleep to look round that cabinet table now would be aghast.

2022 January 13, Polly Toynbee, “Finally the Tory papers have caught on that Johnson is a liar – what kept them?”, in The Guardian:

(fiction, US) A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.


picture black

en-noun

picture black (countable and uncountable, plural picture blacks)

At the same time the picture blacks may be reproduced at levels as high as 20 or 30 IRE units.

1966, Rodger J. Ross, Television Film Engineering, page 331:

(television) The darkest black that can be produced in a television image.


IRE unit

Named after the Institute of Radio Engineers.

(television) A unit used in the measurement of composite video signals. A value of 100 IRE is defined to be +714 mV in an analog NTSC video signal.


HLS

(media) Abbreviation of HTTP live streaming.


spacepad

(science fiction) A launch pad for spacecraft.


substub

The first column on the left is the stub column. Its heading is referred to as the stub head. A stub is a title for a row of (horizontal) data. Should a stub column contain substubs, then the substubs are indented two or three spaces to show that they are subordinate to the stub item.

1992, Joel P. Bowman, Bernadine P. Branchaw, “Special techniques: headings, lists, and tables”, in How to Write Proposals that Produce, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 97:

(typography, in tabular matter) A subheading below a stub (stub head) in a table; a stub subordinate to another stub.


Buyan

From Russian Буя́н (Buján). See there for further information.

(Slavic mythology, folklore) In medieval Russian folklore, a mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide; the home of the Zoryas (solar goddesses) and three brothers representing the Northern, Western, and Eastern Winds.

Bouïane

a mysterious island in the Russian folklore


siscon

siscon (countable and uncountable, plural siscons)

Borrowed from Japanese シスコン (shisukon), from clipping of シスターコンプレックス (“sister complex”). By surface analysis, sis (“sister”) + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

surf

What's up with Da Capo? Siscon and lolicon in episode 1, a catgirl later -- is the target market fetishists?

2003 July 17, Galen Musbach, “The Summer of Our Discontent”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Heck, it's not too hard to find incest themes in non-H these days. Bro/Siscon relationships date back even before the seminal "Revolutionar [sic] Girl Utena", and still crop up in today's harem styled shows like "Sister Princess", and the still hilarious "Majikano".

2006 March 26, Abraham Evangelista, “Re:Protecting the Children at anime cons”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Perhaps you're wondering about what '80s anime would have thought of the siscon aspect. It likely wouldn't have been permitted as such a central concept on an anime TV show […] but the siscon theme was the focus of a relatively popular 1980s OAV series named for its main character, Ami.

2015 July 14, Tsukasa Fushimi, edited by Jemiah Jefferson, Oreimo: Kuroneko Volume 2, →ISBN, page 163:

“Imouto sae Ireba Ii” - Adaptation of a light novel with a strong siscon slant.

2017 September 19, Dave Baranyi, “Fall 2017 New Anime Try--Out List”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(anime, manga, uncountable) Strong attachment or romantic/sexual attraction to one's own sister.

(anime, manga, countable) A person with such an attachment.


Inner

Capitalization of inner, from Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the inner planets of the Solar System


decollimation

(optics, radio) Any mechanism in which rays either diverge or converge from parallelism


carbrain

en-noun

carbrain (countable and uncountable, plural carbrains)

The carbrain honked and started the engine when the clock reached 00:30.

1992, James Patrick Kelly, “Pogrom”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, page 429:

If the carbrain goes off track (or even off-line), the result is a freeway pile-up.

2006, Science-fiction Studies - Volume 33, Issues 1-3, page 281:

What would your carbrain say if it could talk? Would it say Jump In? Would it say Get out and walk?

2009, Sheldon G Brown, Scalable City, page 41:

(countable, science fiction) The thinking part of a sentient car.


ojousama

(Japanese, usually fiction) A rich girl.


monoeye

Tysm Hitomi!! They are both so cute! 😳💖 Why does everyone have a cute monoeye OC~

2022 December 10, Akiko✨ (@Akiko_oc), Twitter:

It's also the first day of the month, that means it's monoeye day! Cyclops art RT bomb incoming!

2022 February 1, Hitomi 👁🎧 (@HitomiOnpa), Twitter:

(chiefly anime and manga) A humanlike monster girl species with a single large eye.


dollyman

(film, television) The man who operates a dolly (cart on which a camera is mounted).


H&J

(typography) Abbreviation of hyphenation and justification.


beat panel

See beat (“short pause in a play, etc. for dramatic or comedic effect”).

(comics) A panel without dialog (speech bubbles or the like) and no significant visual changes to the previous panel, symbolizing passing of time.


geta mark

Partial calque from Japanese 下(げ)駄(た)記(き)号(ごう) (geta kigō), alluding to the similarity between the shape of this symbol and that of a footprint from a geta shoe.

(typography) The symbol 〓, used as a placeholder in electronic or printed text to indicate the presence of an ideographic character for which no glyph is available.


autobiographicalize

en-verb

autobiographicalize (third-person singular simple present autobiographicalizes, present participle autobiographicalizing, simple past and past participle autobiographicalized)

autobiographicalizes (present singular third-person)
autobiographicalizing (participle present)
autobiographicalized (participle past)
autobiographicalized (past)

... on the other hand, they were encouraged to autobiographicalize traditional fictive forms, as Dickinson did when she turned hymns into monodramas. These crossings between autobiography and the fictive were regulated by the strong[…]

1991, Paul John Eakin, American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 50:

It is to speak of a little boy lost but searching, for a father, for direction, for justice, for peace. To tell his story in connection with brothers of the past is to autobiographicalize our current generation.

1997, Michael Datcher, Kwame Alexander, Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur, Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations, Kwame Alexander:

Instead, Savory's sharp eye for details, his method of choosing material, of considering what is cinematic and what is not; all hint at some self - indulgent autobiographicalizing on Greene's part. " It is all a question of choice[…]

2008, William Thomas Hill, Lonely Without God: Graham Greene's Quixotic Journey of Faith, Academica PressLlc:

(transitive, literature) To convert into an autobiography.


autoalarm

(nautical, radio) An automatic radio receiver on a ship, for picking up distress calls.


autoparody

This was exactly why, for him, the autoparody became her inescapable prison. Above all, this EuroBrazilian artist had, and continued to have, a defining impact within Brazil's mainstream sense of selfhood, so much so that by the late[…]

2015 August 26, Cristina F. Rosa, Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation, Springer, →ISBN:

1–6 Another type of historical reference involves a type of reverse autoparody. Consciously or not, Bruckner reuses an imitative sequence from the Kyrie of Palestrina's Mass in his wellknown setting (ca. 1886) of the Gradual Christus[…]

2015 June 24, Chester L. Alwes, A History of Western Choral Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

As Osolsobě observes, parody was both a sign of reputation and a tool with which to achieve it, with eighteenth- century French authors of operas often creating parodies of their own works (autoparodies): parodies not only promote the[…]

2022, Christopher R. Wilson, Mervyn Cooke, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 776:

(literature, art, music) A parody of one's own work.


spokestoon

(television) A preestablished cartoon character licensed to endorse a product.


fudge box

(journalism, printing, historical) A mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.

(journalism, by extension) A small blank area left in a newspaper layout for the insertion of late-breaking news.


fine cut

Coordinate term: rough cut

(film) The final stage of editing of a film, focusing on minor details that may have been missed previously.


picture lock

You should have “picture lock” before the sound work begins. It is possible to begin sound work before picture lock, but additional expense and time may be incurred in re-conforming your audio edits to the newly re-edited picture.

2017, Patrick Winters, Sound Design for Low & No Budget Films, page 23:

(film) The point at which a film has gone through final editing and will no longer undergo any visual changes.


taproot text

(literature) Any relatively early text with fantastical elements, a precursor to fantasy as a genre.


imposing table

(printing, historical) A work table, topped by an imposing stone, used by impositors in type-setting.


dirty feed

(television) A video signal with added graphics or text.

(television) A television feed containing specific idents, commercial breaks, etc., rather than one that can be used by any broadcaster.


clean feed

(television) A video signal without added graphics or text.

Some parties proposed that the networks should provide "clean" feeds to unserved households. The networks opposed these suggestions, and, because of unresolved legal and economic problems, we declined to endorse these proposals.

1988, United States. Federal Communications Commission, FCC Record, page 1210:

(television) A television feed without idents, commercial breaks, etc., suitable for generic use by different broadcasters.


hyperplasma

en-noun

hyperplasma (usually uncountable, plural hyperplasmas)

Somewhere in the midst of searing, blinding pain a tiny mode of coherence bobbed, buffeted on shrieking data currents. O’Neill felt cosmic fingers trying to rip her self apart, to abolish her mind orders and meld her with the formless hyperplasma of the universe’s beginning.

1986, Victor Milán, The Cybernetic Samurai, Berkley, →ISBN, page 139:

A concentrated hyperplasma of Energon, drawn via a transdimensional gateway from the endless supply of Energon that enlivened the planet Cybertron itself.

2010, Alexander Christian Irvine, Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron, Titan, →ISBN, page 198:

The big thing about the hyperplasma torp is that all of it's ^([sic]) torps are destructible, so against any enemy with AOE, they're completely worthless.

2015 February 10, alexea56, Mastajdog, “Tricobalt torpedo's ^([sic])”, in reddit.com:

(science fiction, rare) Very advanced and powerful plasma; superplasma.


hypermissile

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The sight of another hypermissile impacting the Shield mollified him only a little; the backup fire-control comp had taken over without a hiccup, but precious little good did that do him, isolated on the bridge with no way of knowing what was going on. The only comfort, and bare comfort at that, was that there was only one lance. And it was damaged, too.

1993, Sherwood Smith, Dave Trowbridge, The Phoenix in Flight, TOR, →ISBN, page 181:

Pavanaz tripped into hyperspace, burned the cruiser with his exhaust, threw all power to his screens and deflected the carrier's hypermissiles.

2006, Brian Lumley, Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space, Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 124:

He did not need what it represented: a ship-size heat signature, something out in space beyond the asteroid, just a few kelvins. In the tactical display, blue diamonds shot toward the spot, hypermissiles tracking the tiny difference in temeprature. The ship did not fight back.

2017, Craig DeLancey, Evolution Commandos, 496\Perfect Number Press:

(science fiction, rare, video games) An extremely advanced and powerful missile or projectile; a supermissile.


buyrate

On pay-per-view, November To Remember garnered a 0.20 buyrate, in the same neighborhood as the first two shows and, impressively, half what the WWF drew the following week for its In Your House: Degeneration X event.

2010 November 16, Brian Fritz, Christopher Murray, Between the Ropes: Wrestling's Greatest Triumphs and Failures, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 98:

The recent "Guns N' Roses Invade Paris!" pay-per-view concert tallied a 0.8 % buyrate, according to PolyGram Diversified Entertainment president John Scher, who characterized the show as "the biggest music event on pay-per-view this year."

... My frustration comes over the fact that the ppv providers don't really understand the business and think the buyrate will depend on the known stars.

2004, Jerry W. Jarrett, The Story of the Development of NWATNA: A New Concept in Pay-per-View Programming, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:

The peak for UFC buyrates was a 1.05 for UFC 5 (headlined by Shamrock versus Royce Gracie), a 1.1 for UFC 6, and a 1.0 for the 1995 Ultimate Ultimate.

2005, Jeremy Wall, UFC's Ultimate Warriors: The Top 10, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 176:

(television) the percentage of available households that purchase a pay-per-view show.


archcommander

/ɑɹt͡ʃ.kəˈmændɚ/

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And they said,"We beseech thee, Michael , our Archcommander, transfer (μεταθες) us from them, for we cannot abide with evil and foolish men, because there is no good in them but all wickedness and greediness. We beg then that we may depart from them."

1903, Christian Faith and Life, Volume 7, page 5:

Jagiello acted chivalrously; he had the body washed, covered with a purple shroud and sent to Malbork on a carriage drawn by four horses, together with the bodies of other dignitaries, such as the archcommander and the grand marshal.

1978, Paweł Jasienica, Jagiellonian Poland, American Institute of Polish Culture, page 103:

The archcommander caught his arm and tried to draw him away, counseling caution, but the enraged Patrician shook him off, saying, "He gave you this place that should have been your prison and turned it into a palace, let you work your damned unnatural magics wherever you pleased, let you recruit more of your own kind...”

1995, Martha Wells, City of Bones, TOR, →ISBN, page 316:

There's some major design flaws as well. Scaling for one is a pitta. Never liked it myself on any MMORPG, it's cheap, tacky, destroys tension and for me inserts a huge wad of loss of realism, oh, yes, those wasps I destroyed at level one in two seconds can now fight my uber level 200 with the 'Archcommanders Sword of Cheese Shoes' for ten minutes now! Go figure.

2019 April 23, Goromhir, yucklawyers, “Discussion / MOD 16 The End of Neverwinter. Lead Desinger failed.. ^([sic])”, in forums.mmorpg.com:

(rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) The supreme commander; a commander-in-chief.


greatbow

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He hooked the tip of his own greatbow under the door’s hasp, muttered som thing under his breath and pulled, hard. Nothing happened. Again, and again nothing.

1981, Peter Morwood, The Warlord's Domain, DAW, →ISBN, page 84:

You can turtle with a crossbow but you're wide open after every shot. Greatbows have knockdown but you're superslow.

2021 April 12, the_3rdist, “What is your all time favourite themed runs?”, in reddit.com:

Maybe samurai would give you a head start for a greatbow build.

2022 February 14, ytinifniozob, Zamoku, “Greatbows”, in reddit.com:

(rare, science fiction, video games, weaponry, fantasy) A giant bow; a longbow.


omnielemental

Like for a turn or three he deals piercing damage or Omnielemental damage with attacks and unlock something like Apotheosis and all it's^([sic]) source skills for one turn. Something.

2018 August 17, divinedpk, terrovek3, “Is summoning getting any changes in the definitive edition?”, in reddit.com:

I don’t like the omnielemental builds for the Cra, that is why I didn’t go omnielemental/critics^([sic]), but this is my opinion, and I want to know yours. What do you think?

2019 October 8, “Do you believe a water/air lvl. 199 Cra is viable?”, in reddit.com:

I am skeptical of becoming of Harbinger, simply because the Traveler will be omnielemental at that point, removing the need for a delusion.

2022 February 13, azadeth24, Patient_Insect_4463, “pure speculation here - a lil theory about the upcoming plot that I came up with recently. feel free to add your thoughts or debunk this entire thing in the comments 🛐 btw i have no idea why wouldn’t celestia just stop the tsaritsa^([sic])”, in reddit.com:

(rare, fantasy, science fiction, video games) Encompassing all elemental attributes possible.


hysterical realism

Coined by English critic James Wood in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's White Teeth.

coin

This is not magical realism. It is hysterical realism. […] The conventions of realism are not being abolished but, on the contrary, exhausted, and overworked.

2000 July 24, James Wood, “Human, All Too Inhuman”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:

(literature) A literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.


multiglobal

en-adj

multiglobal (comparative more multiglobal, superlative most multiglobal)

more multiglobal (comparative)
most multiglobal (superlative)

your CHERISHED MULTIGLOBAL EMPIRE

2011 November 11, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck:

“Be careful what you say, Ms. Modane. VectorCorp does not respond well to baseless accusations. We are a multiglobal company.

2014 December 18, Joseph R. Lallo, Artificial Evolution: Big Sigma #3, Joseph R. Lallo, →ISBN:

“[…] A multiglobal harmony of thought and reason.”

2017 December 5, Gareth L. Powell, Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy, Solaris, →ISBN:

[…] let us consider the story of “Bonk Business,” the imaginary corporation made up by Finnish artist Alvar Gullichsen: Bonk Business Inc. is a multiglobal industrial conglomerate employing 13,000 in 52 countries.

2020 August 12, Pekka Aula, Saku Mantere, Strategic Reputation Management: Towards A Company of Good, Routledge, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Spanning multiple globes.


unity of place

(theater, literature) The classical unity that states that a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.


charactonymous

charactonymous (comparative more charactonymous, superlative most charactonymous)

more charactonymous (comparative)
most charactonymous (superlative)

(literature) Of, or relating to, a charactonym (a fitting name of a character).


unity of action

(theater, literature) The classical unity that states that a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.


antistrophize

en-verb

antistrophize (third-person singular simple present antistrophizes, present participle antistrophizing, simple past and past participle antistrophized)

antistrophizes (present singular third-person)
antistrophizing (participle present)
antistrophized (participle past)
antistrophized (past)

(transitive, poetry) To turn into antistrophe.


comet tail

(television) A display artifact consisting of a smear of color that appears to follow a moving object in the picture.


props master

(theater, television, film) Short for property master.


cybermind

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(science fiction) A computer system capable of conscious thought; a computerized mind, or artificial intelligence.


Guj

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Gujarat.


Hyd

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Hyderabad.


Maha

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Maharashtra.


B'lore

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Bangalore.


U'khand

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Uttarakhand.


K'taka

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Karnataka.


J'khand

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Jharkhand.


T'gana

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Telangana.


C'garh

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Chandigarh.

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Chhattisgarh.


B'luru

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Bengaluru.


testbank

From test + bank, analogous to databank.

The chemistry department hired me to write batches of questions for a testbank.

Meronyms: MCQs, multiple-choice questions, word problems, essay questions

(education, publishing) A collection of test questions and/or tests; a databank full of such items.


electrogravity

(physics, science fiction) A hypothetical unification of electromagnetism and gravity.


Charontian

/kəˈɹɒntɪən/

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).


Ormulum

From the author’s name, Orm, modeled after Latin speculum (“mirror”), so popular in the title of medieval Latin non-fiction works that the term speculum literature is used for the genre.

(historical, literature) A twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.


prop master

“We’re doing our job if you don’t notice it,” Catherine Miller, the prop master for the series, said in a phone interview last week.

2022 May 4, Gina Cherelus, “The Stories Behind Some of the Weird Stuff on ‘Severance’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(film, theater) Short for property master.


property master

en-noun

property master (plural property masters)

(film, theater) The person in a film or theatrical production responsible for the props.


Taft-Hartley

en-verb

Taft-Hartley (third-person singular simple present Taft-Hartleys, present participle Taft-Hartleying, simple past and past participle Taft-Hartleyed)

Taft-Hartleys (present singular third-person)
Taft-Hartleying (participle present)
Taft-Hartleyed (participle past)
Taft-Hartleyed (past)

From the Taft–Hartley Act as applied to the Screen Actors Guild policies.

(film) To hire a non-union actor on a unionized production.


Taft-Hartley

(film) A form used on SAG union projects when an actor is hired who is non-union.


coltpixie

(UK, Hampshire, archaic, folklore) A kind of hobgoblin.


Texas switch

(cinematography) A technique in which a stunt double is seamlessly replaced with an actor, or the other way around, in a single shot.


planet placement

(broadcasting) The deliberate inclusion in broadcast media of messages warning about climate change or promoting environmental sustainability.


vyaz

(calligraphy) A traditional lettering style for Cyrillic and Slavosphere Latin, slender, ornate and interweaving.


character generator

en-noun

character generator (plural character generators)

(television) A digital machine for superimposing text onto a video.


H'yana

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Haryana.


main character syndrome

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Furthermore,
Goku is still the main character of the series, and thus by the rules
of the main character syndrome, no one on the same side of the main
character shall surpass the main character, and the main character will
always (eventually) save the day.

1996 June 5, Dr. Briefs, “[DBGT] Pans potental.”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(fiction) The phenomenon of the protagonist of a show or movie receiving unrealistic special treatment from the worldbuilders.


MPDG

manic pixie dream girl
manic pixie dream girl#English

(film) Initialism of manic pixie dream girl.


pouchling

Instead, she secretes a narcotic fluid which is designed to keep her pouchlings dormant. They will remain effectively comatose until the flow of her milk has stopped, and will only awaken and begin to grow and develop when she has died, […]

2011, Arinn Dembo, The Deacon's Tale, page 301:

The Elaki Mother-One stopped abruptly and David expected the pouchlings, following so closely, to run into her. They didn't.

(science fiction, fantasy) A young creature that is raised in a pouch.


fleshbag

I've died numerous times before (in this life time alone) and trembled at nothing. In fact, I was overjoyed to be able to leave this fleshbag I call home.

1999 October 4, Aazari Cantharess, “Across The Menai”, in alt.pagan (Usenet):

"We're interested in getting this robot out into this world," says Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert in the video, as part of MIT's FAB 11 conference. He seems calm and blithely unafraid, ignoring the fact that his creation is moving through the trees with an ease of motion that would make Gort weep. "We're working on a version that doesn't have that [power tether]," Raibert says of Atlas, which is code for "Run, you helpless fleshbag fools. RUN!"

2015 August 17, BTR1701, “The Terminators Are Almost Here...”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

Human civilization is not immortal, you know. Even if we manage to avoid the death trap that is this Earth, and even *IF* we manage to free ourselves from these weak fleshbag bodies so that we may exist in enviroments^([sic]) that are uninhabitable to biological lifeforms, we would still be limited by the lifetime of our universe.

2017 July 2, rantingri...@gmail.com, “Re: The Collapse Of Complex Societies”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

(usually science fiction) A human or human body, as opposed to a robot or incorporeal being.


rekern

en-verb

rekern (third-person singular simple present rekerns, present participle rekerning, simple past and past participle rekerned)

rekerns (present singular third-person)
rekerning (participle present)
rekerned (participle past)
rekerned (past)

Illustrator tends to treat a line of text as an object, so changing a word at the end of a line can often result in a great deal of hand-manipulation to rekern the type or move a word onto the next line.

1996, Bruce Page, Diana Holm, Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF, page 227:

Here the original drawing is shown in grey and the infilled tracing in black. The lettering can be further refined and, unlike ink-based artwork, can be rekerned without being redrawn.

2011, Andrew Haslam, Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques:


xuanhuan

(literature) A genre of fiction that mixes Chinese folklore with modern elements.


ADI

(broadcasting) Initialism of area of dominant influence.


cybernet

(science fiction) Short for cybernetwork.


negative pickup

en-noun

negative pickup (plural negative pickups)

* From negative (film) + pickup (contract).

(film, television) A contract between a producer and a studio in which the studio agrees to buy a movie or show at a future date and for a fixed sum.


run lines

en-verb

run lines (third-person singular simple present runs lines, present participle running lines, simple past ran lines, past participle run lines)

runs lines (present singular third-person)
running lines (participle present)
ran lines (past)
run lines (participle past)

Reporters: When you're not on stage, get together and run lines. As Sheriff Hartman can tell you, ... That group got together regularly to run lines and had great success. ... Using the Grief Sheet to Improve Community Theatre.

2002, Kenneth Anderson, Good Grief! Using the Grief Sheet to Improve Community Theatre Production: Telling the Story Better Than It Has Ever Been Told, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 274:

In "Barrymore," Mr. Luce imagines that the actor, one month before his death, has taken over a Broadway theater for an evening to run lines from "Richard III," in anticipation of possibly recreating the role that provided him with his[…]

2014 October 13, C. S. Smith, The New York Times Theater Reviews 1997-1998, Routledge, →ISBN, page 51:

(acting) To practice or memorize one's lines from a script outside of rehearsal, usually with another person.


DGA

Directors Guild of America
w:Directors Guild of America

(US, film, television) Initialism of Directors Guild of America, the labor union representing directors of film and television.


[ˈfɔɹɾi kʰeɪ]

From 40 + k. From 40,000, part of "Warhammer 40,000", referring to the future year where the game was set in.

(informal, slang, science fiction) Warhammer 40,000, a British tabletop military game set in a dystopian future Galaxy torn by war.


stone subeditor

en-noun

stone subeditor (plural stone subeditors)

(printing, historical) A subeditor having a similar role to that of the stone editor.


makeup editor

The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.

1965, George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, page 38:

(printing, historical) Synonym of stone editor


stone editor

(printing, historical) An editor who works with the compositor at the imposing stone to determine how material will be laid out on the page.


shotgun mic

(film, television, sound engineering) A shotgun microphone.


shotgun microphone

shotgun microphone (plural shotgun microphones)

(film, television, sound engineering) A highly directional microphone for capturing only the sound directly in front of them, often used at a distance.


metacinema

In the years since, he has continued in that vein of clandestine metacinema, playing himself (in “Closed Curtain” and “Taxi”) less as a heroic auteur than as a curious, gentle, sometimes foolish middle-aged family man who can’t break the habit of turning life into film (or, to be precise, digital video).

2022 December 22, A. O. Scott, “‘No Bears’ Review: A Film That Critiques Itself”, in The New York Times:

(film) A mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction.


RMT

RMT (countable and uncountable, plural RMTs)

(broadcasting, countable) Initialism of radio media tour.


picture desk

(journalism) The photography department of a newspaper.


space-happy

en-adj

space-happy (comparative more space-happy, superlative most space-happy)

more space-happy (comparative)
most space-happy (superlative)

He worried Ground Control might think he'd gone space-happy, like Titov.

2007, David Michaels, Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, page 23:

(science fiction, slang) Crazy as a result of too much time spent in space.


lettermark

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(marketing, communication, typography) A text-only logo consisting of the initials of a brand name or business.


DAP

en-noun

DAP (countable and uncountable, plural DAPs)

double anal penetration
double anal penetration#English

(sexuality, slang, vulgar, pornography) Initialism of double anal penetration.


author mill

(publishing, derogatory) A publisher that relies on producing large numbers of small-run books by different authors, as opposed to a smaller number of works published in larger numbers.


space marine

Named after the marines, infantry soldiers who serve in coastal areas to assist naval forces.
The earliest usage of this term was from Bob Olsen's short story "Captain Brink of the Space Marines" in 1932, in which the titular soldiers rescue celebrity twins on Saturn's moon, Titan.

(science fiction) a soldier who fights in outer space or extraterrestrial worlds.


pink-slime journalism

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Coined by journalist Ryan Smith in 2012.

(journalism, derogatory) The mass publication of poor-quality news reports (computer-generated or written by poorly-paid outsourced writers) across a network of ostensibly local news outlets.


slant range

slant range (usually uncountable, plural slant ranges)

From it being the distance measured along the usually-slanted line connecting two points in space, rather than purely the horizontal or vertical distance between the two.

(radio, communication) The distance from one point to another in three-dimensional space.


sideshadow

en-verb

sideshadow (third-person singular simple present sideshadows, present participle sideshadowing, simple past and past participle sideshadowed)

sideshadows (present singular third-person)
sideshadowing (participle present)
sideshadowed (participle past)
sideshadowed (past)

(literature) To employ references that are not used in the current text.


backshadow

backshadow (third-person singular simple present backshadows, present participle backshadowing, simple past and past participle backshadowed)

backshadows (present singular third-person)
backshadowing (participle present)
backshadowed (participle past)
backshadowed (past)

(literature) To demonstrate how an event that has already occurred will affect the future.


sharktopus

en-noun

sharktopus (plural sharktopuses or sharktopi)

sharktopuses (plural)
sharktopi (plural)

Blend of shark + octopus, from being a half-shark/half-cephalopod sea monster

(US, fiction) Synonym of lusca; a shark-headed creature with tentacles; a Bahamian folkloric sea monster recast in U.S. pop culture pulp fiction


fujobait

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From fujo (“a female fan of yaoi or slash fiction”) + bait.

compound

thoughts watching yuri on ice: this is the most incredible fujobait and i am biting down on this bait so fucking hard

2016 October 10, med 👽 AX J9 (@daikonhime), Twitter:

anime companies at their board meetings trying to decide which sport to base their fujobait anime series next [screenshot of the sport selection menu from Wii Sports Resort]

2021 March 26, Chara (@hunipyons), Twitter:

Friendly reminder that in 2019 the Chinese government commissioned a fujobait anime about Karl Marx

2022 January 27, Lindsey (@lindsey_batdorf), Twitter:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An anime, manga, or other piece of media created to appeal to fujoshi.


if it bleeds, it leads

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(journalism, colloquial) Sensational, violent stories are to be prioritized.


ARO

(broadcasting) Initialism of audio receive only.


BuWeaps

(fiction) Abbreviation of bureau of weapons. found in fictional military organizations


Orc

(slang, fiction, derogatory) Alternative form of orc (monstrous warrior in fantasy; Russian soldier)


shoot the lens

en-verb

shoot the lens (third-person singular simple present shoots the lens, present participle shooting the lens, simple past and past participle shot the lens)

shoots the lens (present singular third-person)
shooting the lens (participle present)
shot the lens (participle past)
shot the lens (past)

The take was going so well until he looked up and accidentally shot the lens.

(film, television) (Of a performer) to look directly into the camera.


farcetta

(literature, dated) A short or brief farce.


LBC

“No, I wouldn’t approve of it. And no, I don’t think it would get through parliament,” he told LBC.

2022 October 3, Damian Green, quotee, “Tory MPs plot to avert welfare squeeze after humiliating U-turns”, in The Guardian:

(UK, radio) Initialism of London Broadcasting Company, a British phone-in and talk radio station.


Africanfuturism

en-noun

Africanfuturism (usually uncountable, plural Africanfuturisms)

Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2019, from African + futurism.

coin

Africanfuturism is similar to “Afrofuturism” in the way that blacks on the continent and in the Black Diaspora are all connected by blood, spirit, history and future. The difference is that Africanfuturism is specifically and more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of-view as it then branches into the Black Diaspora, and it does not privilege or center the West.

2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog:

Thompson’s Africanfuturism is both queer and decolonial at the same time, necessitating an approach to embodiment that does not look like white, Western performative queerness

2021, Jenna N. Hanchey, “'The self is embodied': Reading queer and trans Africanfuturism in The Wormwood Trilogy”, in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, volume 14, number 4, →DOI, page 321:

Later this year, the highly anticipated sequel to Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, releases. This will likely mark another big surge in wider public excitement and shared fan art depicting elements of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism.

2022, Alyssa Shotwell, “The Key Differences Between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism (With Examples!)”, in The Mary Sue:

(Africa, science fiction, neologism) An Afrocentric subgenre of science fiction that foregrounds familial, spiritual and historical connections among Black people, paying particular attention to African culture, history and mythology, and African perspectives, rather than those of the African diaspora in the western world.


ager/dyer

(television) One whose profession is distressing a costume to make it look aged.


planetship

If an interstellar flight belongs in the category of very slow flight, the corresponding starship is converted into a planetship for rapid flights within the solar system.

1959, NASA Technical Translation, page 156:

This was not a spaceship with its stern half broader than the bows and with high stabilizer ribs. Judging by the sharp bows and slim hull it must have been a planetship hut its contours differed in the thick ring at the stern and the long, distaff-shaped structure on top.

2005, Vera Velichko, The Best on the East, volume 3, page 107:

And to cap it all, there's a planetship full of important politicians in orbit around Mars unable to land while this crisis is with us.

2011, John Glasby, Mystery of the Crater, page 87:

The space vehicle came to be understood as an engineered techno-ecology that allowed for short-term excursions, but the actual goal was to build systems that would allow the expected “planetships” to travel into orbit, to the Moon, to Mars, and one day even further out, into the galaxy.

2021, Kärin Nickelsen, David P. D. Munns, Far Beyond the Moon:

(science fiction) A spacecraft for relatively short journeys in the vicinity of a planet.


enviro-suit

(science fiction) a garment covering the whole body which allows the wearer to maintain a separate atmosphere from the surroundings


transstellar

transstellar navigation

(chiefly science fiction) Across or between the stars.


Sitwellism

(literature) The opinions and practices of the Sitwell literary family.


reality warping

(science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate, control, distort or alter reality


elseworld

From else + world. From being a world that is elsewhere from the regular world. Genericization of the trademark ElseWorlds, created by DC Comics.

parallel dimension
parallel dimension#English

alternate universe
alternate universe#English

(fiction) A fictional setting that is a modification of the common multi-author shared-world setting used in standard stories. A parallel dimension alternate universe setting.


Peak TV

Coined by American television executive John Landgraf at a Television Critics Association event in 2015.

This isn’t the most important reason, of course, but with “Peak TV” in full swing these days, time is precious, and the less time a new piece of entertainment takes, the better.

2018 June 12, Andrew Husband, “Binge this now: Why you should watch Amazon's 'Goliath'”, in Metro, New York, NY, page 21:

Peak TV has meant a surfeit of shows for a growing but ever more fractured universe of consumers.

2020 June, Radhika Jones, “Editor's Letter”, in Vanity Fair, page 16:

And as a vital part of the long-tail economy that is Peak TV, shows from abroad have won over Americans who’ve dropped cable and now stuff their streaming queues with romantic Korean dramas or chilly Nordic thrillers or kinetic Japanese anime.

2021, Judy Berman, "A whole world worth watching", Time Magazine, 15 February 2021 - 22 February 2021, page 110

(television, neologism) A golden age of television generally held as beginning in the late 1990s and peaking in the 2010s, characterized by the proliferation of a large, diverse array of scripted shows coinciding with the rise of premium cable and streaming services.

Golden Age of Television (2000s–present)


forced justified

(typography) The alignment of all lines of text, regardless of length, where they stretch across from margin to margin.


flush right

(typography) Alignment of the text aligned along the right margin or gutter.


flush left

(typography) Alignment of the text aligned along the left margin or gutter.


flush left and right

(typography) A body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.


constructed script

en-noun

constructed script (plural constructed scripts)

(writing, linguistics) A new writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of a language or culture as a natural script.


pornhwa

Blend of porno + manhwa. Piecewise doublet of pornhua.

(pornography, manhwa) A pornographic manhwa (Korean comic).


cone of silence

cone of silence (plural cones of silence)

(radio) A hypothetical device or instrument which prevents eavesdropping on a private conversation.


spacequake

(science fiction) A tremor in space or spacetime.


bolt thrower

(science fiction) A mechanical crossbow used by Alliance Special Forces infiltration units in Star Wars.


distancing effect

distancing effect (plural distancing effects)

(theater, literature) According to Bertold Brecht, performance in such a way that the audience is hindered from simply identifying itself with the characters in the play, and must evaluate their actions on an overt, conscious level.


Nickneven

(folklore) A hag or evil spirit in Scottish folklore.


rom-zom-com

The British director emerged as a noteworthy filmmaker in 2004 with Shaun of the Dead, a "rom-zom-com" that chucked classic George A. Romero–style zombie movies in a blender with a comedy about a man-child who just needed to grow up.

2021 October 29, David Sims, “When a Film’s Message Doesn’t Match Its Spectacle”, in The Atlantic:

(film, slang) A romantic comedy movie featuring zombies.


zom-com

zom-com (countable and uncountable, plural zom-coms)

From the first three letters of zombie and comedy. Formed by analogy with romcom and sitcom.

The gold standard of zom-com movies is still Shaun of the Dead, which had plenty to say about British middle class complacency while making us care deeply about its rather dim but endearing characters.

2019 June 14, Don Kaye, “The Dead Don’t Die Review: The Worst Bill Murray Zombie Movie”, in Den of Geek:

(film, uncountable) A movie genre combining elements of zombie horror and comedy.

Edgar Wright famously popularized the zom-com, with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as best friends in the middle of a hilarious undead apocalypse.

2022 September 15, Brian Truitt, “Our 40 favorite movies of the past 40 years, from 'Back to the Future' to 'Get Out'”, in USA Today:

(film, countable) An individual movie of this genre.


Twitterature

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(Internet slang, literature) Literary use of the microblogging service Twitter, especially in the form of aphorisms, poetry, and fiction.


jump-cut

en-verb

jump-cut (third-person singular simple present jump-cuts, present participle jump-cutting, simple past and past participle jump-cut)

jump-cuts (present singular third-person)
jump-cutting (participle present)
jump-cut (participle past)
jump-cut (past)

The segment ends with a shot of the enthusiastic audience before again jump-cutting to Caleb Peterson reprising “Ol' Man River” surrounded by the black chorus, the white chorus ranged behind and above them.

2014, Kirsten Pullen, Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:

(transitive, intransitive, film) To abruptly transition to a later moment of the scene.


twiction

Call it flash fiction, nanofiction, twitfic, twiction, or a dozen other names. Though the name might not yet be agreed upon, flash fiction tweets are here to stay. The premise is simple: create a whole story with only 140 characters.

2012 February 1, Ben Mitchell-Lewis, The Best Flash Fiction on Twitter, Hyperink Inc, →ISBN:

Popular contemporary cousins include six-word memoirs, twiction, and the blog-born listicle. Nonliterary ancestors can be traced primarily to mid-century visual artists whose works explore themes of appropriation (e.g., Duchamp,[…]

2018 04, Kim Adrian, The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:

The latter has made people remark that “the novel by tweet is really a digital extension of flash fiction, an established literary genre 262 TG 2014 263 Other terms most commonly used include twitterature and twiction; an alternative[…]

2018, Christina Maria Huber, Will Spook You For Real: Strategies of inspiring Societal Anxieties, Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, →ISBN, page 111:

(Internet slang, literature) Fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; fictional works of Twitterature.


death knock

(journalism) The journalistic practice of visiting people related to somebody who has died, to gather information about the deceased and the killing.


twitfic

en-noun

twitfic (countable and uncountable, plural twitfics)

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Steve indulges on occasion with a bit of 140character long fiction but he admits, “I start each of mine with the word 'TWITFIC!' to tell people what I'm doing, so I really get 131.” Some of his TwitFic went like this: “I'm from the[…]

2009 June 29, Tee Morris, All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter, Que Publishing, →ISBN:

He's had twitfic published in @tweetthemeat, @thaumatrope, and @outshine, among others. Join his twitfic community at twitfic.com. F.I. Goldhaber F.i. Goldhaber has had short stories, novels, poems, features, essays,[…]

2010 October 15, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter, Folded Word, →ISBN, page 145:

Meanwhile, The Guardian ran Twitfics from twenty-one heavyweights including Jeffrey Archer, Geoff Dyer, and Ian Rankin. “Blaise Pascal didn't tweet and neither did Mark Twain,” began the story by the UK MIllennium Poet and Iowa Workshop[…]

2013 November 14, David Comfort, An Insider's Guide to Publishing, Penguin, →ISBN:

The first is 'twitfic', mentioned by several TV 2.0 participants. As one might imagine, it is a very abbreviated work of fiction spread over a number of tweets. Anne's response pointed to the limitations of Twitter for such a practice:[…]

2017 March 30, Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, Thomas Poell, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, SAGE, →ISBN:

Legend has it that Hemingway won a barbet by composing the first Twitfic on an Algonquin bar napkin: “Classified: Baby Goods. For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” The king of brevity already knew what the Memory & Cognition Journal[…]

TwitFic. Because network access on Windows Phone must be performed asynchronously, it takes quite a bit of code to construct the RESTful Web service request properly. Most of the code, however, is repetitive and thus all of the major[…]

2012 June 10, Henry Lee, Eugene Chuvyrov, Beginning Windows Phone App Development, Apress, →ISBN, page 393:

(Internet slang, literature) Fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; twiction.


intimacy coordinator

intimacy coordinator (plural intimacy coordinators)

The issue of intimacy coordinators on George RR Martin-related TV series has recently generated headlines. Sean Bean, who played Ned Stark on Game of Thrones, told the Times that he thought they “spoil the spontaneity”, claiming that “the natural way lovers behave would be ruined” if you had “somebody saying: ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing.’”

2022 September 14, Alexi Duggins, “Thirty-year age gap left House of the Dragon star ‘scared’ ahead of sex scenes”, in The Guardian:

Cast opposite me was Josh McGuire, who was in my year at drama school. I’ve known him for years, so those sex scenes were weird. I was going “Mate, you’re about to see me naked.” But we had an amazing intimacy coordinator. That was the first time I’d worked with one. I cannot believe they used to let actors just get on with that stuff!

2023 August 13, Michael Hogan, quoting Susan Wokoma, “Actor Susan Wokoma: ‘We all want to be married to Emma Thompson, don’t we?’”, in The Observer:

Back then—only seven years ago, and after #MeToo—there was still widespread industry scepticism about the role of intimacy coordinators, says McAlpine.

2024 January 30, Elle Hunt, “‘With orgasm people strive for oblivion’: Poor Things’ intimacy coordinator on consent, orgies and Emma Stone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(film, television) A member of a film crew who ensures the well-being of actors who participate in sex scenes or other intimate scenes.


flying rowan

(folklore) A rowan tree growing parasitically on another tree, or from a wall, roof, etc., once believed in Scandinavia to have magical powers.


audience surrogate

audience surrogate (plural audience surrogates)

(literature) A character who serves to express the questions and confusion of the audience, such as a detective's assistant who asks for clarification regarding how a case was solved.


oblique type

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(typography) A form of type that slants slightly to the right.


light entertainment

(broadcasting) Radio and television programming that includes comedies, variety shows, game shows, quiz shows, etc.


non-Aristotelian

From non- + Aristotelian; the general semantics sense was coined by Alfred Korzybski in the 1920s or early 1930s; the dramaturgical sense was coined circa 1930 by Bertolt Brecht.

(drama, theater, of a play) Whose dramaturgical structure departs from the features of classical tragedy in favour of the features of the epic.


Leica reel

(film, animation, historical) A kind of early animatic made from stills, or sometimes preliminary artwork or storyboard frames, that are filmed and accompanied by recorded audio.


footstick

The footsticks may be a trifle shorter than the width of two pages and the gutter; for as there should always be a line of quadrats, or a reglet cut to measure, at the foot of each page, the footstick may be a pica shorter without danger, on this account, of any thing falling out, when the form is lifted and it thus prevents the side and foot sticks from binding when locked up.

1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330:

Neither the sidestick nor the footstick should project beyond the other, as it will prevent the quoins from passing, and in unlocking will give a great deal of trouble.

1863, H. Morgan, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Printing, page 53:

In using common footsticks and sidesticks, however, the broad part of the sidestick would be at the top left-hand corner of the left side section of the forme, and the broad part of the footstick at the lower right-hand corner.

1884, John Southward, Practical Printing: A Handbook of the Art of Typography, page 138:

(printing, historical) A sloped or beveled piece of wood or metal placed against the foot of a page that is being typeset, and locked in place by quoins.


AMPAS

w:Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

(film) Acronym of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.


stolen shot

(film, television) A shot or sequence filmed without the permission of those depicted.


bisexual lighting

bisexual lighting (countable and uncountable, plural bisexual lightings)

/baɪˌsɛkʃʊəl ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

From bisexual (adjective) + lighting (noun), referring to the pink, purple, and blue colours of the bisexual flag (also known as the bisexual pride flag).

(LGBTQ, often art, film, television) The simultaneous use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, often to indicate bisexuality.


back gray

(US, printing, textiles, historical) A piece of dark, heavy cotton cloth that is run under another piece of cloth to be printed, serving to take up the color on the roller outside the width of the print cloth.


dummy text

A traditional way to represent dummy text in typeset documents is with a passage of medieval Latin that begins “Lorem ipsum. ..” (or “lipsum” for short).

2006, Christian Crumlish, Kate J. Chase, Microsoft FrontPage 2003: Savvy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 93:

This means you can easily set up text layouts without having the copy in hand and without resorting to a “dummy text” placeholder.

2010, Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner, Bob Bringhurst, Real World Adobe InDesign CS5, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

(typography) A placeholder text used in typesetting.


pica stick

(printing, drafting) A type of ruler used to measure by hand the spacing in prints, designs, mock-ups, and proofs.


bookwriting

Our bookwriting services embed the true essence of our words in the right manner.

(Can we date this quote?), “Book Writing Services - Professional Book Writers For hire”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(writing) The process of writing a book.


imaginism

From Russian имажини́зм (imažinízm), from Latin imāgō (“image, representation”).

(poetry) A Russian avant-garde poetic movement, founded in 1918, whose members created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images.


available light

(film, photography) Light from sources that are not explicitly supplied by the photographer, such as natural light or pre-existing street lighting.


double angle quote

double angle quote (plural double angle quotes)

Coordinate term: single angle quote

(typography, uncommon) An angle quote which appears as two symbols at the beginning or end of a sentence.


single angle quote

single angle quote (plural single angle quotes)

Coordinate term: double angle quote

(typography, uncommon) An angle quote which appears as a single symbol at the beginning or end of a sentence.


hip-pocket

en-verb

hip-pocket (third-person singular simple present hip-pockets, present participle hip-pocketing, simple past and past participle hip-pocketed)

hip-pockets (present singular third-person)
hip-pocketing (participle present)
hip-pocketed (participle past)
hip-pocketed (past)

(film, informal) Of a talent agent, to informally represent (an actor, screenwriter etc.) without signing a formal contract.


Bayhem

Blend of Bay + mayhem, after American director Michael Bay.

Michael Bay’s second Transformers saga delivers full-bore “Bayhem” like a brick to the forehead, with some tender love on the side, making this either the biggest blockbuster of summer ’09 or history’s loudest romance.

2009, review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Metro (Edmonton, AB), 20 October 2009, page 17

Typical of Michael Bay's manic “Bayhem” style (discussed earlier), Armageddon focuses more on the masculine heroics of the crew sent to blow up the asteroid.

2019, Kevin L. Ferguson, Pop Goes the Decade: The Nineties, page 46:

Con Air is Bayhem without the vision—something that was already becoming the prevailing Hollywood action film aesthetic.

2022, Keith Phipps, Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, unnumbered page:

(film, fandom slang, often derogatory) Frenetic and fast-paced action characteristic of the films of Michael Bay.


CHR

Coordinate term: AOR

Commercial stations with a CHR or revised AOR format also jumped on the metal bandwagon in the late 1980s by integrating some metal songs into their general playlists.

2009, Deena Weinstein, Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(radio) Initialism of contemporary hit radio.


cum swapper

(vulgar, pornography, sexology) A person who partakes in cum swapping.


Moviola

(film, historical) An early machine allowing a film editor to view the film while editing it.


prelap

en-noun

prelap (countable and uncountable, plural prelaps)

Coordinate term: postlap

Some aspects of the editing were groundbreaking: In his book “Film Editing: History, Theory and Practice” (2001), Don Fairservice pointed out that “Stagecoach” contained one of the earliest uses — maybe even the first — of the now-commonplace technique called a prelap, in which as one scene ends, dialogue from the next is already beginning on the soundtrack.

2022 October 29, Gavin Edwards, “Overlooked No More: Dorothy Spencer, Film Editor Sought Out by Big Directors”, in The New York Times:

(film) A film editing technique in which the dialogue from the next scene precedes the cut, and the beginning of the dialogue is heard in the outgoing scene.


slave of the lamp

slave of the lamp (plural slaves of the lamp)

In the eyes of Gorgias "the word" was a despot who could do anything, but like a slave of the lamp it would be at the service of those who took his courses.

1971, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Sophists, page 25:

(fiction) A genie who is imprisoned in a lamp, as in the tale of Aladdin.


audimeter

(television, telecommunications) Electronic device that, installed in a sample of households, automatically records the television channel and consumption of the family or its individual members.


GBBO

It’s GBBO season, so if you’re ready to elevate your baking skills from lockdown banana bread to plaited loaf, there’s one gadget that will make all the difference. Enter the multi-tasking food processor.

2021 September 15, Hannah Mendelsohn, “Make GBBO-level cakes with these 5 best food processors under £100”, in Cosmopolitan:

The Great British Bake Off
w:The Great British Bake Off

(television) Initialism of The Great British Bake Off: a British television baking competition, debuted in 2010, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds.


Nordic noir

Nordic noir (countable and uncountable, plural Nordic noirs)

(film, uncountable) A subgenre of film noir, set (and usually produced) in Scandinavia; typified by psychologically complex storylines involving the investigation of cruel or brutal crime, as well as heavy use of stark landscapes, pathetic fallacy and grinding realism.

(film, countable) A film or show of this subgenre.


commag

Clipping of combined magnetic (“from the magnetic tape used for recording”).

clipping

(television, dated) Being a combined sound and picture recording, with the soundtrack magnetically recorded.


comopt

16mm colour film recording
Transfer and one comopt print £18 per programme minute, £100 minimum.

(television, dated) Being a combined sound and picture recording, with the soundtrack optically recorded.


sepopt

At the appropriate distances (28, 26 and 20 frames) ahead of the JOIN PICTURE HERE line there are rows of squares, circles and triangles which indicate the correct splicing points for 16-mm sepmag, 16-mm sepopt and […]

1968, D. J. Corbett, Motion Picture and Television Film, page 64:

(television, dated) Having a separately optically recorded soundtrack running concurrently with the film footage.


whip zoom

(cinematography) A rapid zoom that allows the viewer to focus suddenly on a subject.


Borduria

Hergé
King Ottokar's Sceptre
Le Temps
Outlook (Indian magazine)

From French Bordurie, from bordure (“border”). Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.

Graustark, Ruritania, Borduria, Syldavia and a score of imaginary kingdoms, usurped by tyrants and sundered by fights for the throne, leap into mind: plots, treachery, imprisoned heirs and palace factions abound and, along with them, fiendish monocled swordsmen, queens in lonely towers, toppling ranges, deep forests, plains full of half-wild horses, wandering tribes of Gypsies who steal children out of castles and dye them...

1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts, 1st edition, New York Review Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-13:

The play will be set in Borduria, the fictional state originally created in Hergé's Tintin that resembles a 1970s eastern European state.

2014 June 19, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “Decaying east London tower block to house 12-hour Macbeth production”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-05-19:

He made up two fictional countries, Borduria and Syldavia, and the struggles between the two were actually a satire on the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany.

2017 May 22, Utkarsh Srivastava, “A Tintin Mystery: Why Hergé's comics continue to fascinate, 88 years after their debut”, in Firstpost, archived from the original on 2022-01-29:

Hardly any of the cars in the Tintin comics are exotic, while a few of them — like the stretch black limousine driven in a convoy in Tapiocapolis in the final, complete adventure Tintin and the Picaros and the open-topped roadster used to rescue Professor Calculus from the prison fortress of Bakhine in Borduria — are an imaginary combination of real cars.

2022 September 3, Srinivas Krishnan, “The automotive adventures of Tintin”, in Mumbai Mirror, archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

Borduria and Syldavia, both fictional Balkan countries appearing in the Adventures of Tintin graphic novel, also merit a mention as places used to highlight the stereotypes about the southeastern parts of the continent.

2022 November 4, Aleksandar Brezar, “What is Listenbourg? Why is it going viral on Twitter? Why did the meme become so big in Europe?”, in Euronews, archived from the original on 2022-11-07:

The reporter’s future adventures took him far and wide - even to outer space - and to a handful of fictionalised countries including Balkan states Borduria and Syldavia and the South American countries of San Theodoros, São Rico and Nuevo Rico.

2017 7, The Newsroom, “When Tintin the intrepid fictional reporter came to Scotland”, in The Scotsman (Journal), archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

But the name of Grand Fenwick doesn't occur in any history book, or show up in any atlas, unless it also maps Ruritania, Syldavia, Borduria, Oz or even Shangri-La.

2016 September 18, Vikas Datta, “The small nation which beat the superpowers, global capitalism”, in The News Minute, archived from the original on 2022-11-13:

(fiction) An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Syldavia, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.


Syldavia

From French Syldavie. Blend of Transylvanie + Moldavie. Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.

Tintin and his loyal hound Snowy find themselves trying to thwart a plot by spies to overthrow the king of Syldavia, a fictional Balkan land.

2020 June 25, Lifestyle Desk, “Tintin cover that mocked Hitler’s Germany to go under hammer”, in The Indian Express, archived from the original on 2020-06-26:

(fiction) An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Borduria, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.


flying car

(aircraft, science fiction, vehicles) A vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft.


network provider

en-noun

network provider (plural network providers)

digital distribution
digital distribution

(television) A broadcaster of Internet television using digital distribution.


bratpack

a bratpack movie

(informal, film) Of or relating to the Brat Pack.


unpied

I then dried these over a flame, and then, wrapping the formes and re-sealing them with my court seals — for my only commission, you see, was to report as to whether the type was unpied, and text ungarbled, and the formes all ready […]

1947, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Case of the Barking Clock:

(letterpress typography) Of metal type: not mixed together or disordered.


sandgun

If someone deliberately set off the sandgun, I think I'm very possibly what they were aiming for.

Trance was raising his sandgun when the blastwave hit.

2020, Marc Miller, Agent of the Imperium:

The sandgun did burst out, sending the biting cold sand flying in all directions. However, it did not explode from the muzzle of the gun, but from the middle of the spear shaft!

2020, Da Ba, Beauty's Special Magical Doctor:

(science fiction) A weapon that shoots sand or a sandlike substance.


Scandinavian noir

Scandinavian noir (countable and uncountable, plural Scandinavian noirs)

(film, uncountable) Synonym of Nordic noir (“subgenre of film noir”).

(film, countable) Synonym of Nordic noir (“film or show of this subgenre”).


roider

From roid (“anabolic steroids”) + -er.
From roid (“asteroid”) + -er.

(science fiction) A person who mines asteroids for a living.


farmer's daughter

farmer's daughter (plural farmers' daughters)

The Midwest farmer's daughters really make you feel alright / And the Northern girls with the way they kiss / They keep their boyfriends warm at night

1965, “California Girls”, in Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), performed by the Beach Boys:

This does not mean that her radical reformulation of the whore persona is entirely absent in this text – it is, for instance, in The Genuine History that Salisbury monopolizes the Prince of Wales and his two aristocratic friends by frankly declaring herself a whore (quote above), while her two colleagues are dismissed because they resort to conventional representations of female ruin, such as milliners and farmer's daughters, which deny or obscure their status as prostitutes.

2015 October 6, Lena Olsson, “5 ‘A first-rate whore’: Prostitution and empowerment in the early eighteenth century”, in Ann Lewis, Markman Ellis, editors, Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(fiction) A stock character or stereotype of a desirable but naïve young woman who is the daughter of a farmer.


archpaladin

/ɑɹt͡ʃˈpælədɪn/

From arch- + paladin. Originally from the Dungeons & Dragons franchise, in which the fictional deity, Heironeous, is known as The Archpaladin, and the AdventureQuest game.

Foremost in her mind has always been to serve the Archpaladin [Heironeous] and improve the lives of others with His teachings.

2004 August, Rick LaRue, “Greyhawk’s Knights of Holy Shielding: Valor Is Our Blood!”, in Dungeon, number 113, page 94:

Heironeous, The Invincible, The Archpaladin, is the champion of rightful combat and chivalrous deeds.

2007 April, Sean K Reynolds, “Heironeous”, in Dragon, volume XXXI, number 11, issue 354, page 19:

Mostly whiteshirts, from initiate Healers to patrolmen to Electors and ArchPaladins in full battle gear.

2010, Tim Akers, The Horns of Ruin, Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, →ISBN, page 266:

It's best if you can find a friend or some players to help you out with each quests for Archpaladin.

2019 August 1, SyedXD123, the_beast69, “What Class?”, in reddit.com:

History was wrought romanticised tales of grand crusades lead by heroic Archpaladins of old, spreading God's word to the dark and corrupt corners of the kingdom through their might and zeal.

2021, C. R. Butterworth, The Exile, Liberation (Book 1), C. R. Butterworth:

Things like using Archpaladin to mitigate true damage, or recommending Health Vamp on farming classes that don't benefit from it.

2022 February 18, xiaomole, “Combatting Misinformation”, in reddit.com:

(very rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) A supreme paladin.


starfall

starfall (countable and uncountable, plural starfalls)

Coordinate term: planetfall

That was just a guess. Man had leaped into space with a new drive, had made starfalls on Procyon, 61 Cygni, Sirius, Altair, all within the fifteen light-year range of the first generation of engines.

1970, John Rackham, Danger from Vega, D. Dodson, →ISBN, pages 35–36:

(science fiction) The act of landing on a star.


superuniverse

(science fiction) A universe containing other universes.


flux capacitor

First seen in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension in 1984 and in the 1985 American science fiction film Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis, in which a DMC DeLorean vehicle is retrofitted with a flux capacitor to create a time travel device.

Tucked into the corner of the Rinky Dink Flea Market in Marietta is a time machine that transports its visitors to an era before digital music. It doesn’t need a flux capacitor to work, just a plug to power the vintage stereos and turntables that produce the sounds of the thousands of vinyl records sold there.

2019 January 12, Chad Plauche-Adkins, “Playing the classics: Flea market music collection includes thousands of records”, in The Marietta Times:

Is this a glitch? Is the system experiencing an outage? It is a temptation that is best resisted, the urge to talk about this Chelsea team as a piece of fine-point engineering, to style Thomas Tuchel as a pure systems man, poring over his data charts, banging his dials, reconfiguring the flux capacitor with a bent hairpin.

2021 December 4, Barney Ronay, “Thomas Tuchel must gear up for a new phase to reboot glitching Chelsea”, in The Guardian:

(science fiction) A fictional instrument required to operate a time machine, consisting of a rectangular-shaped compartment with three flashing Geissler-style tubes arranged in a "Y" configuration.


cognitohazard

Blend of cognition + hazard. Probable origin is from the SCP Foundation website.

The symbol on that piece of paper is a cognitohazard which puts everyone who reads it in a week-long coma.

SUMBITCH. I started listening to http://nyan.cat/ again and now I can't turn it off. #memetic #cognitohazard #scp

2011 April 28, @triggurgoat, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

CAUTION! High-grade Cognitohazard in effect!

2011 July 29, @LexLevinholt, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

The one about Qpple hardware being a cognitohazard?
(I made that up, BTW. :D )

2013 February 27, neurotrashboy, “Place name of the week”, in alt.running.out.of.newsgroup.names (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-09:

SCP-2359’s primary anomalous property is a cognitohazard that propagates to anyone who makes visual, auditory or informational contact with it. The infection impresses a false identity and memories of SCP-2359 onto the mind of the affected subject.

2016 January 29, StringentCurry, “SCP-2359”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2022-12-11:

Numerous people have reported, or, more accurately, been discovered, as having been subjected to the proscribed work The King in Yellow. […] For one thing, we’re not even sure there’s anything useful in the King play. It’s a complete cognitohazard.

2017, Zachary Adam, Sanity Line (Arcane Revolution Series), CreateSpace, →ISBN:

The last week was devoted to an equally theoretical threat—weaponized cognitohazards. Brown notes. Things that you could be hurt, or possibly killed, by just seeing or hearing them… and what would happen if they got on the Internet. How would people protect themselves?

2018, Paul Briggs, Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise, Secant Publishing, →ISBN:

“Says here you’re on the front lines, not search and rescue. Do you have the cognitohazard equipment?”

2020, Azalea Ellis, Gods of Ash and Amber (Seeds of Chaos), Seladore Publishing, →ISBN:

TL;DR: “Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “cognitohazard” to describe information that could specifically harm the person who knows it.

[2020 February 2, eukaryote, “A point of clarification on infohazard terminology”, in LessWrong, archived from the original on 2022-12-11:

Curses! Foiled again by the cognitohazard of Harry Styles’ painted nails!!!!!!

2022 August 26, Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day, retrieved 2023-10-16:

Awawawa is a cognitohazard that spreads specifically among submissive trans people

2022 December 6, @circleoflust, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

(neurology, chiefly science fiction) An image, pattern, sound, or any other kind of sensory signal that directly causes harmful or undesired physiological or physical effects to one who senses or perceives it.


cognitohazardous

en-adj

cognitohazardous (comparative more cognitohazardous, superlative most cognitohazardous)

more cognitohazardous (comparative)
most cognitohazardous (superlative)

Rapidly-flashing lights are cognitohazardous to people with certain forms of epilepsy, resulting in seizures.

Had the unknown girl who'd written those things somehow added to the end of the book without realizing what it was? Or had it acquired cognitohazardous properties after she was already dead?

2014, Matt Dymerski, The Portal in the Forest, Proximate Publishing, →ISBN:

(neurology, chiefly science fiction) Being, containing, or pertaining to a cognitohazard.


wastelander

(science fiction, fantasy) One who inhabits a wasteland.


EPK

"Auditions will be held Friday, 10 April in Los Angeles for drummers who are looking to play with THE SMASHING PUMPKINS. […]" / Any would-be multi-millionaire drummers with an archive of YouTube clips, Flickr snaps and SonicBids EPKs, this is your chance!

2009 March 31, Sean Michaels, “Smashing Pumpkins to hold auditions for new drummer”, in The Guardian:

(media) Initialism of electronic press kit.


clickership

(printing, obsolete) An association or companionship of printers.


stand with

en-verb

stand with (third-person singular simple present stands with, present participle standing with, simple past and past participle stood with)

stands with (present singular third-person)
standing with (participle present)
stood with (participle past)
stood with (past)

Another advantage would be found, when a Printing-houſe ſhould happen to be ſold, that the Letter of it would ſtand with another Fount of the ſame Body.

1755, John Smith, The Printer's Grammar, page 35:

(typography, of a character) To align with.


toplighting

Coordinate term: sidelighting

(film, theater, architecture) The lighting of a scene or location from above.


sidelighting

Coordinate term: toplighting

(film, theater, architecture) The lighting of a scene or location from the side.


copy that

Lamin: "Please, listen to me carefully. We are not proceeding – the ship to go to Malta. But the situation is very bad. […] We are 19 women, 12 children. Please help us."
 AFM: "Copy that, sir."

2021 March 26, Dialika Neufeld, “Three Teenage Refugees on Trial in Malta”, in Der Spiegel, archived from the original on 2022-04-26:

(radio or colloquial) Used to acknowledge receipt and understanding of a message; understood, got it.


Gothicist

(architecture, literature) One who works in the style of Gothicism.


Z-movie

By extension from B-movie. Compare Z-list.

(film) A very low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.


Centaurian

en-adj

Centaurian (comparative more Centaurian, superlative most Centaurian)

more Centaurian (comparative)
most Centaurian (superlative)

(chiefly science fiction) Pertaining to the constellation Centaurus or its imagined inhabitants.


Centaurian

The Centaurians are remarkable people, but move slowly.

1911, [L. D.] Biagi, The Centaurians: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Publishing Co., […]:

Jack proposed to record a Centaurian’s vocabulary with English equivalents, and the dictawriter, hearing the queer hoots the strange creature uttered, would pick out a card which would then cause a speaker to enunciate its English synonym.

1935 March, Murray Leinster, “Proxima Centauri”, in Astounding Stories, volume XV, number 1, Street & Smith, page 25:

Suppose that in a few years we are visited by a race of benevolent and rational beings from Alpha Centauri that have free will and an advanced culture. […] Suppose further that after they figure out our languages we realize the Centaurians are moral beings who act on reflectively endorsed and rationally appraised principle. We can now ask, “What is of moral value for the Centaurians?”

2010, Adam D. Moore, Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations, The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 38:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the constellation Centaurus.


Proxima Centaurian

en-noun

Proxima Centaurian (plural Proxima Centaurians)

The Proxima Centaurians, who are roughly humanoid in shape, are a development of mobile carnivorous plants.

1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Richard J[ames] Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, Kent, Ohio, London: The Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 248:

In “Rautavaara’s Case,” the alien Proxima Centaurians save the severely damaged human Agneta Rautavaara by using the rest of her irreparable body as a nutrient source to sustain her brain.

2011, G.C. Goddu, “Will You Survive a Trip to Rekall, Inc.?”, in D.E. Wittkower, editor, Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits? (George A. Reisch, editor, Popular Culture and Philosophy, volume 63), Chicago, Ill., LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, section “Identity Crises”, page 65:

Rather than come here in person, it would be much more sensible for Proxima Centaurians, if they exist, to send an unmanned satellite, the way we have in our exploration of the other planets of the solar system.

2018, William B. Irvine, You: A Natural History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Proxima Centauri.


Proxima Centaurian

en-adj

Proxima Centaurian (comparative more Proxima Centaurian, superlative most Proxima Centaurian)

more Proxima Centaurian (comparative)
most Proxima Centaurian (superlative)

Science Officer Heath stood out as the only American – specifically, of Proxima Centaurian descent – among the command cadre.

2016, Jamie Sawyer, The Lazarus War; Book Three: Origins, Orbit, →ISBN:

IF I CAN ISOLATE THE DIFFERENCES IN HUMAN BLOOD AND PROXIMA CENTAURIAN…

2021, Jim McCann, Star Trek: Year Five, IDW Publishing:

A member of the Galacterian Alignment, and participants in the Melchizedek Star Seed Program, the Proxima Centaurian race is here to assist Earth in its dualistic proclivity: to spiritually raise, to uplift mentally, to reveal health—all roads that lead to true happiness.

2021, Craig Campobasso, The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac: The Ultimate Guide to Greys, Reptilians, Hybrids, and Nordics, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 109:

(science fiction, rare) Of or relating to Proxima Centauri.


medbed

On either side of the medbed I was in, and on the other side of the long, narrow room, other medbeds stretched in long rows. I couldn't make them out well, though, and I remembered they had added distortion fields to medbeds to give patients privacy.

That might work. Call the Aurorae and have a medbed waiting in your prep room. If we can offload them on medbeds, we can load them the same way.

2013, Maggi O'Mally, Aurorae II, page 161:

She was lying on a medbed and only clad in her black jumpsuit. Her armor, helmet and pack were gone.

2014, Rhiannon Frater, The Last Mission of the Living:

Dante snapped his fingers and Damon appeared with a medbed. "As you can see he is the patient."

2020, Serena Simpson, Keriann McKenna, Mick:

(science fiction) A bed equipped with technology for medical diagnosis and treatment.


flannel panel

The contributors had a really big credit on their features, so that saves some space / And everyone else is up there in the Flannel Panel From Hell.

1993 September, Your Sinclair, number 93, page 2:

[…] with my (cough!) gargantuan talents other than use them to collect a fortnightly wage for writing flannel panels and interviews with the seemingly miserable (I could never figure out why) cast of Hey Dad...! about how they all got on so well.

2011, Marc Andrews, Claire Isaac, David Nichols, Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984-2007, page 106:

(journalism, slang) A section of a magazine listing the contributors and their roles.


IPSO

Last week’s column has become the Independent Press Standards Organisation’s most complained about article, with more than 17,500 people contacting it over the piece as of Tuesday morning. […] It was unclear which of Ipso’s rules could have been broken because of its broad guidelines for comment pieces.

2022 December 23, Nadeem Badshah, “The Sun apologises for Jeremy Clarkson’s column on Meghan”, in The Guardian:

w:Independent Press Standards Organisation

(media) Acronym of Independent Press Standards Organisation: a regulatory body of the newspaper and magazine industry in the United Kingdom, established in 2014.


pre-moderation

"We can't completely lock down creativity," says founder Michael Acton Smith, "But nor can we allow the Wild West. So we use tools like software filtering, pre-moderation and post-moderation and we track every communication on the site."

2010 September 8, Milo Yiannopoulos, “Moshi Monsters is leading the way on child safety”, in The Telegraph:

Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.

2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian:

(journalism, Internet) The practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.


terranaut

From Latin terra (“dry land; soil; Earth”) + -naut.

af

The first terranaut was pulled into view, wearing the characteristic black uniform of his kind. His head lolled back, his mask had been ripped away, but he was fighting bravely to retain consciousness.

1967, Brian W. Aldiss, “The Night That All Time Broke Out”, in Harlan Ellison, editor, Dangerous Visions, New York: Doubleday & Company, page 166:

By now, the interior of the vessel was entirely weightless. The ship had sunk to a depth of 6,800 kilometers – the planet's deepest point. The last remaining terranaut aboard the Sunset 6 had become the first person to reach the Earth's core.

2013, Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth, London: Head of Zeus, published 2017, →ISBN, page unknown:

(chiefly science fiction) Someone who explores some part of the Earth.


post-moderation

(journalism, Internet) The practice of moderating comments after they appear online, with the goal of removing the publication of offensive or dangerous material while allowing discussions to occur in real time.


paragraph break

en-noun

paragraph break (plural paragraph breaks)

(writing systems, orthography) A place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing and/or a subsequent indent.

(word processing, typography) A place within written content where such an orthographic break occurs; in computing, it is encoded with a hard return, which is sometimes represented visually with a pilcrow character (¶).


Golden Age of Television

(Canada, US, television) The period of North American televised fiction produced circa the first two decades of the 21st century CE, seen as especially high quality.

(US, television, historical) The period of American television produced during the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, seen as especially high quality.


with privilege

Calque of Latin cum privilegio (“with legal permission, with legal authority”).

der

(printing) used to indicate a book has been legally published or is entitled to special privileges, e.g., due to a royal monopoly

cum privilegio

colophon announcement of a book's legal permission or monopoly


skyland

She then went to Miss Green’s house who, when she heard the sound of the six pipe flute, expected to see her husband return from the skyland. She opened the door. Instead, it was the tiger demon who touched the hem of her skirt causing her to fall down in a dead faint.

1967, Collected Papers in Highway Salvage Archaeology, 1972-74, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, →ISBN, page 55:

Tearing his eyes from the skylands, he called, “You warned me that Blood was going to catch me, back there in the city while you were renting these donkeys for us. What do you think he’ll do to me if he does?”

1993, Gene Wolfe, Nightside the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun), Tor Books, →ISBN:

First he has to find the place, and as the sleeve of night brings darkness to his city of Viron, light to the skylands above, he sets out on his quest.

2016, Michael Andre-Driussi, Gene Wolfe: 14 Articles on His Fiction, Sirius Fiction, →ISBN, page 128:

They passed a number of islands as well as a few low lying skylands, all heavy with vegetation and life.

2021, L.T. Junzon, Descendants of the Lost: Tales of the Seeker, MJ Publishing, →ISBN:

The military intelligence confidently surmises that their ethnic origin is either from the skylands in the clouds of Jupiter or from Uranus.

2022, Yoda Oraiah, Cosmism: A New Hope for Humanity, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 198:

But that day in the skylands of Skod, the day of deliverance, I never set out to do anything like what I’m given credit for.

2022 August, Rick Remender, Seven to Eternity, deluxe edition, Image Comics, Inc.:

(science fiction) A land above the sky, such as a floating city or another planet.


dyeline

(printing) A system of printing using diazo dyes.


documentarism

(literature) The study of the writing or sourcing of texts.


salesrobot

(science fiction, rare) A robotic salesperson.


mood piece

The new picture isn't a thriller. But as an eerily poetic mood piece, where sea sirens menace the gentle romance of a young sailor and an amusement park "mermaid," this low-budget film is a haunting try for something different.

1963 June 7, Howard Thompson, “‘Night Tide,’ a Mood Piece, Is Shown at the Selwyn Theater”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Hunger is more of a mood piece than a straight history of the 1981 Irish hunger strike, but it creates that mood with impressive historical balance and haunting effect.

2014 March 6, Alex von Tunzelmann, “Hunger: A mood piece with impressive historical balance”, in The Guardian:

The always impressive Spall elevates this low-key mood piece a little, but even his skill as an actor can’t save the stultifying pacing.

2022 September 4, Wendy Ide, “It Snows in Benidorm review – Timothy Spall is the bright spot in overcast drama”, in The Observer:

(chiefly film) A work of fiction more centered on evoking a specific mood than following a conventional plot.


aerocab

(science fiction) Synonym of aircab (“a flying taxicab”).


armorplast

From armor + -plast (“a small body, structure”).

suffix

(science fiction) A fictional material, often described as being strong, flexible, and transparent.


autodoc

(science fiction) A system or robot which provides automatic medical care.


asterite

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of an asteroid.


aerocar

(science fiction) A flying car; a flying machine which looks and functions similarly to modern cars, often described as using antigravity technology.


Asterite

(science fiction, demonym) Alternative letter-case form of asterite


Aldebaranian

(science fiction) Relating to the Aldebaran system or to Aldebaranians.


Aldebaranian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Aldebaran system.


Aldebaranian

(science fiction, rare) The language spoken by Aldebaranians.


braintape

From brain + tape (“any video or audio recording”).

compound

(science fiction) A complete record of the contents of someone's brain.


astroengineer

(science fiction) An engineer who designs or operates spacecraft or space stations.


combozine

(science fiction fandom slang) A combination of zines bound or distributed together.


collapsium

From collapse + -ium. Probably alluding to black holes, which are extremely dense objects formed by collapsing matter in the core of a dying star.

(science fiction) A fictional material usually described as having an extremely high density.


countergrav

(science fiction, rare) Clipping of countergravity.


cityship

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

(science fiction) A spacecraft which contains an entire city.


Chicon

(science fiction fandom slang) A name given to various science fiction conventions held in Chicago, United States.


Class M

Originally from the TV series Star Trek.

(science fiction) Of a planet: having characteristics similar to that of Earth.


cyborged

Cyborged servitors – mind-wiped snail-men – constantly cruised the black marble floor of his long, barrel-vaulted chamber, cleansing and laying down trails of scewnted polish behind them.

1994, Ian Watson, Harlequin, Boxtree, →ISBN, page 9:

(science fiction) Having been made into a cyborg.


impossible story

en-noun

impossible story (plural impossible stories)

(science fiction fandom slang, dated) Any story featuring elements of science fiction or fantasy (as opposed to typical stories which are set in the real world).


different story

different story (plural different stories)


-con

(science fiction fandom slang) Used to form the names of conventions.