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  2. May Queen - Wikipedia

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    A May Queen of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada circa 1877. In the British Isles and parts of the Commonwealth, the May Queen or Queen of May is a personification of the May Day holiday of 1 May, and of springtime and the coming growing season. The May Queen is a girl who rides or walks at the front of a parade for May Day celebrations.

  3. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    Crap: The word "crap" did not originate as a back-formation of British plumber Thomas Crapper's surname, nor does his name originate from the word "crap", although the surname may have helped popularize the word. [1] [2] The surname "Crapper" is a variant of "Cropper", which originally referred to someone who harvested crops.

  4. 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).

  5. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...

  6. Skibidi, gyatt and Ohio: Learn the meaning, origin behind Gen ...

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    The term was first logged on Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced English language online dictionary, in December 2017 with the definition, "what you would say if something was really good."

  7. Drag Race terminology - Wikipedia

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    dance move where a queen dramatically falls back into a stroke pose, usually at the end of a lipsync or during a beat drop drag mother [2] [6] / dragmother [7] an established drag queen who mentors a new queen, her "daughter"; many queens use the same last name as their drag mother, creating "family" lineages, sometimes called "houses" eat it

  8. Queen Elizabeth thinks this completely normal word is “vulgar”

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    Your first guess would probably be that the Queen turns up her nose at curse words, but that might not be true. Queen Elizabeth thinks this completely normal word is “vulgar” Skip to main content

  9. Yas (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Yas (/ j ɑː s /), sometimes spelled yass, is a playful or non-serious slang term equivalent to the excited or celebratory use of the interjection Yas was added to Oxford Dictionaries in 2017 and defined as a form of exclamation "expressing great pleasure or excitement". [1]