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many figurative senses derived from baseball, e.g. off one's base (crazy), to get to first base (esp. in neg. constr., to get a first important result); more recently (slang), a metaphor for one of three different stages in making out (q.v.) – see baseball metaphors for sex; more s.v. home run: bash
To talk too much, especially without significant meaning. Speculated to be used as early as 1592 to express annoyance and irritation. Became a TikTok trend in 2023 for someone who talks too much or whose talking does not make sense. [180] yeet (/ j iː t / ⓘ) To throw something with force and without regard. Also used as a generic positive ...
Standard: I have too much time on my hands. Standard: Kick it to me. trimester. A trimester is a period of three months. [113] Because it is most commonly used in conjunction with a nine-month academic year [114] or a nine-month term of human pregnancy, [115] it is sometimes wrongly assumed that trimester is a synonym for one third of a year or ...
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
(n.) secondary academic subject (compare major) ("has a major in biology and a minor in English"); (v.) to study as one's minor ("she minored in English") minor league; miss out: to omit to lose a chance; usu. used with on mobile (n.) mobile phone (US: cell phone) decorative structure suspended so as to turn freely in the air mobile home
Nothing is more cringe-inducing than when your professor (or any adult, really) tries get hip with the kids and sprinkles some totally rad teen lingo into their everyday lectures. That's why one ...
orange ball, containing a flashing light or now sometimes surrounded by a flashing disc of LEDs, mounted on a post at each end of a zebra crossing (q.v.); named after the UK Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha who introduced them in 1934. bell-end the glans penis (slang, vulgar), a term of abuse. berk, burk or burke
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