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   Rooney Rule

   The Rooney Rule is a policy in the NFL that requires a team to interview at least one minority candidate for a head coaching job, general manager position, or other front office position.
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   Eastwood Rule

   The Eastwood Rule is a rule in the Director's Guild of America that prohibits someone already working on a film (producer, actor, etc.) from firing a director during production and replacing them with themselves.
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   Jexodus

   Jexodus is the name of a right-wing political effort to encourage Jewish Democrats to leave (as an exodus) and join the Republican party due to the left's supposed anti-Semitic, anti-Israel policies.
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   Emoji Challenge

   The Emoji Challenge is a viral internet challenge in which participants hilariously reenact or otherwise interpret emoji in real life.
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   pornocchio

   Pornocchio is a term used in various erotic parodies of or popular puns about Pinocchio. It's also occasional slang for someone who lies about sex, such as embellishing their escapades, or lies about looking at pornography.
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   blorange

   Blorange is a blend of blond and orange or blood orange, most often used to describe a trendy hair color.
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   Tope

   Tope is a ship (fictional relationship) of the characters Hope Brady and Ted Laurent on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Tope is also an occasional slang blend of tight and dope, like "very cool."
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   Bechdel test

   The Bechdel test is an informal way to evaluate bias against women in films and other media. A work is said to pass the Bechdel test if it 1) has two (named) women, who 2) talk to each…
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   hectocorn

   It is the most elusive, and expensive, creature of them all: the hectocorn, a financial term for a company valued at over $100 billion.
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    decacorn

    A decacorn is a financial term for a relatively new company that is worth at least $10 billion.
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    the Arya Challenge

    The Arya Challenge is an internet trend where people imitate a skilled, lethal knife jab by the character Arya Stark on the popular television show Game of Thrones. (Of course, don't go imitating this with knives…
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    🦪 Oyster emoji

    The oyster emoji, 🦪, depicts that pearl-yielding mollusk, the oyster. It may be used to represent oysters as an organism and food as well as the precious pearls they produce. It may also be used…