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  2. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  3. List of age-related terms with negative connotations - Wikipedia

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    MILF: [27] An acronym slang term meaning "mother I'd like to fuck"; considered sexist and ageist by some and positive or neutral by others. Mrs. Robinson: Refers to a character in the 1967 feature film "The Graduate"; slang term referring to an older woman pursuing someone younger than herself, typically an adolescent male. (see "cougar" above)

  4. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari A Somali term meaning “soldier” which is often used by Somali immigrants to the United Kingdom to refer to police. It is commonly used by rappers in UK drill. Aynasız

  5. Glossary of Generation Z slang - Wikipedia

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    Dictionary.com implies that the origins for the two meanings had little to do with each other. [113] out of pocket To be crazy, wild, or extreme, sometimes to an extent that is considered too far. [3] [114] owned Used to refer to defeat in a video game, or domination of an opposition. Also less commonly used to describe defeat in sports.

  6. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).

  7. The Surprising Origins of 'Break a Leg'—and Why Performers ...

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    Related: 'Time To Hit the Books!' 50 Common Idioms and What They Really Mean 'Break a Leg' Meaning. Despite sounding like something out of a medical drama, "break a leg" is actually a way to wish ...

  8. Devious lick - Wikipedia

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    Missing soap dispenser at a Texas public school on September 20, 2021, as a result from a "devious lick". A devious lick [a] (also known as a diabolical lick, [4] dastardly lick, or nefarious lick, [5] amongst other names) was a challenge in which North American middle school and high school students posted videos of themselves stealing, vandalizing, or showing off one or more items they stole ...

  9. Cultural references to chickens - Wikipedia

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    In the rabbinic literature, the cockcrow is used as general marker of time, [64] and some of the Sages interpreted the "cockcrow" to mean the voice of the Temple officer who summoned all priests, Levites, and Israelites to their duties. The Hebrew gever or geber was used to mean "rooster" in addition to the literal meaning of "(strong) man". [65]