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Bimbo. Presumed portrait of Rosalie Duthé (1748–1830), called "the first officially recorded dumb blonde." Bimbo is slang for a conventionally attractive, sexualized naïve woman. [ 1] The term was originally used in the United States as early as 1919 for an unintelligent or brutish man. [ 2] As of the early 21st century, the "stereotypical ...
SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen. Short Message Service ( SMS) language, textism, or textese[ a] is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet -based communication such as email and instant messaging. [ 1]
List of Generation Z slang. The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world. Generation Z slang differs from slang of prior generations. [ 1][ 2] Ease of communication with the Internet facilitated the rapid proliferation of ...
A bulletin board system ( BBS ), also called a computer bulletin board service ( CBBS ), [ 1] was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user could perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and ...
Bruh. "Bruh" originated from the word "brother" and was used by Black men to address each other as far back as the late 1800s. Around 1890, it was recorded as a title that came before someone's ...
Financial markets. A collateralized debt obligation ( CDO) is a type of structured asset-backed security (ABS). [ 1] Originally developed as instruments for the corporate debt markets, after 2002 CDOs became vehicles for refinancing mortgage-backed securities (MBS). [ 2][ 3] Like other private label securities backed by assets, a CDO can be ...
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).
t. e. Internet slang (also called Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, digispeak or chatspeak) is a non-standard or unofficial form of language used by people on the Internet to communicate to one another. [ 1] An example of Internet slang is "lol" meaning "laugh out loud." Since Internet slang is constantly changing, it is difficult to ...