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Yaoi is a Japanese term for manga that features sexual romance between men, specifically as created by and for women. In the West, yaoi is used more generally to refer to any anime, manga, fan…
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ManBearPig
It leaves no one alive ... the ManBearPig is a monster from the adult cartoon South Park, warned about by a fictionalized version of Al Gore. It's become a pop-culture symbol of hoaxes or ridiculous beliefs. -
Bazinga!
Bazinga! It's an interjection used to rub a good joke in someone's face or cheer yourself on after a personal win, popularized as the catchphrase of the character Sheldon Cooper on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. -
hot mess
You might be hot and you might be a mess, but are you a hot mess? Hot mess is used to describe a particularly disorganized person or chaotic situation. In some uses, a person described… -
Last Month In Pop Language: “I Like It” And Other July #1s
by Molly Rosen Marriner It’s another installment of Last Month in Pop Language, a column where the most popular (statistically) song, book, and film of the month will have their words analyzed in hopes of drawing a conclusion about language’s current usage—and future. At the end of each monthly column, we’ll draw a conclusion: Was last month’s pop language masterly, malevolent, or merely meh? Film: Ant-Man and the Wasp …
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cock-block
Cock-blocking is the action of preventing someone (usually a man) from having sex by intentionally or unintentionally stopping (blocking) someone else's cock from reaching its intended destination. This behavior could be driven by jealousy, competition, genuine concern… -
In My Feelings Challenge
The In My Feelings Challenge is the name for a viral dance trend in which people dance outside of an open car door to the song "In My Feelings" by rapper Drake. -
if you can’t handle me at my worst
If you can't handle me at my worst ... you don't deserve me at my best. This expression is a meme in which people pair a bad image with a better counterpart, used by people to…