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   surrender cobra

   Found at sporting events, surrender cobra is a hands-atop-head pose made by fans when the their team's loss seems all but inevitable.
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   ignant

   Ignant is a form of "ignorant" or "an ignorant person" in Black English. It's a slang way of calling someone "stupid" or "ridiculous," or saying "going wild and crazy."
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   yinz

   Yinz is a Pittsburgh equivalent to y'all. It is used to address two or more people as a second-person plural pronoun.
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   uckers

   Uckers is a slang term for a woman who is particularly gifted at, or frequently performs, fellatio.
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   nawf

   Nawf is a dialectical pronunciation and spelling of "north," commonly associated with Black English. The popular rap group Migos to refer to north Atlanta, Georgia as the Nawf.
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   sloppy seconds

   Sloppy seconds also refers to dating someone after they've just broken up with someone in your immediate social group. Sometimes, it refers to having sex with someone who's just finished a sexual act with someone else.
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   Coulter’s Law

   Named after a 2015 tweet from provocative conservative political commentator, Ann Coulter, Coulter's Law states that the longer it takes the news media to identify a mass shooter in the United States, the less likely it is…
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   esskeetit

   Esskeetit is a 2018 song and catchphrase of rapper Lil Pump. It is his way of saying a pumped-up "Let's get it."
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   in a jiffy

   Before we did everything in a hot second, we did them in a jiffy, an informal expression for "in a very short time."
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    scumbro

    This one's pretty self-explanatory. Scumbro is the name of a men's fashion style and the men who dress in it. Scumbro style involves wearing expensive, designer clothing sloppily or cultivating an unfashionable, poorly put together…
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    grey-a

    As with many things in life, sexuality isn't black and white. Grey-a, or grey-asexuality, refers to sexual identities along a spectrum of asexuality and sexuality. Those who identify as grey-a experience sexual attraction or desire…
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    Incumbent, Misogynistic and Other Trending Words On Dictionary.com

    The midterm elections weren’t just sending folks to the polls. Plenty of you landed on Dictionary.com the week of November 2–9, 2018 looking for answers. So what did we learn? Let’s review this week in words! Incumbent, House of Representatives, and gubernatorial The midterm elections dominated headlines this week, so it’s no surprise that more than a few election-related words showed up in our trending …