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LGBTQ slang, LGBTQ speak, queer slang, or gay slang is a set of English slang lexicon used predominantly among LGBTQ people. It has been used in various languages since the early 20th century as a means by which members of the LGBTQ community identify themselves and speak in code with brevity and speed to others.
Buff (colour), a pale orange-brown colour; Buff (turkey), a breed of domestic turkey; Buff meat or buff, buffalo meat; Buff, a character in Generation X; Buffing, a metal finishing process; Nail buffing, a cosmetic treatment; A state of nudity – see In the buff. Buff leather, made of bull or elk hide; Buff (train couplers), condition of a ...
Buff is a nickname of: E. U. Curtis Bohlen (born 1927), former president of the World Wildlife Fund and former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans ...
Blind man's buff or blind man's bluff [1] is a variant of tag in which the player who is "It" (i.e, the person who is tagging others) is blindfolded. The traditional name of the game is "blind man's buff", where the word buff is used in its older sense of a small push.
The exact origins of the term twink are disputed. Some trace its first appearance to 1963, although it may be derived from an older British gay slang term twank, which means: "The quarry of a homosexual prostitute (male); a man willing and ready to become any dominant man's 'partner' ". [10]
Cinephilia (/ ˌ s ɪ n ɪ ˈ f ɪ l i ə / SIN-ih-FIL-ee-ə; also cinemaphilia or filmophilia) is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and film criticism.
Merriam-Webster's definition is "an attractive but vacuous man". [ 1 ] As the word generated popularity in the early 2020s, the word himbo began to be associated with a positive masculine archetype of being attractive, stupid, but also kind and goodhearted, as the "human version of a golden retriever—beautiful, incredibly well-intentioned ...
The slang term "Chad" originated in the UK during World War II and was employed in a similar humorous manner as Kilroy was here. [1] It later came into use in Chicago [2] as a derogatory way to describe a young, wealthy man from the city's northern suburbs, typically single and in his twenties or early thirties. [2]