Friday, November 15, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
roll with it
roll with it (third-person singular simple present rolls with it, present participle rolling with it, simple past and past participle rolled with it)
(idiomatic, slang) To deal with or accept unexpected changes or setbacks and cope with themTuesday, November 21, 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023
Nerd sniping
Nerd sniping is a slang term for the action of giving an interesting problem to a person (usually a nerd), thereby consuming all their attention until the problem is solved. It was coined by xkcd author Randall Munroe in the 356th comic of the series on 12 December 2007.
Thursday, August 24, 2023
fandominance
fandominance
Friday, August 11, 2023
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
wombo combo
wombo combo (plural wombo combos)
(slang, chiefly video games) A combination of actions which create a decisive advantage (often involving coordination between teammates)Monday, April 3, 2023
Monday, March 27, 2023
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Saturday, February 4, 2023
touch grass
- (Internet slang) To spend time outside. An insult suggesting that a person posting online is out of touch with reality and should spend time away from the internet.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see touch, grass.
touch grass (third-person singular simple present touches grass, present participle touching grass, simple past and past participle touched grass)
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Craic
Craic (/kræk/ KRAK) or crack is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland. It is often used with the definite article – the craic – as in the expression "What's the craic?" (meaning "How are you?" or "What's happening?"). The word has an unusual history; the Scots and English crack was borrowed into Irish as craic in the mid-20th century and the Irish spelling was then reborrowed into English. Under either spelling, the term has attracted popularity and significance in Ireland.
The word crack is derived from the Middle English crak, meaning "loud conversation, bragging talk".
Monday, January 16, 2023
Thursday, January 12, 2023
act the maggot
act the maggot (third-person singular simple present acts the maggot, present participle acting the maggot, simple past and past participle acted the maggot)
- (Ireland) To play around in a foolish or annoying manner.
Saturday, January 7, 2023
effing
effing (not comparable)
- (euphemistic, slang) Bowdlerization of fucking.
- The effing television's on the blink again!
Friday, January 6, 2023
Monday, November 14, 2022
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
between Scylla and Charybdis
Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils". Several other idioms, such as "on the horns of a dilemma", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express similar meanings. The mythical situation also developed a proverbial use in which seeking to choose between equally dangerous extremes is seen as leading inevitably to disaster.
Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria, on the Italian mainland. Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Calabrian side of the strait and Charybdis was a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily. They were regarded as maritime hazards located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa. According to Homer's account, Odysseus was advised to pass by Scylla and lose only a few sailors, rather than risk the loss of his entire ship in the whirlpool.
Sunday, October 23, 2022
synanthrope
A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolve...
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A canary trap is a method for exposing an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to each of several suspec...
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A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolve...
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A kouros (plural kouroi , Ancient Greek κοῦρος ) is the modern term given to those representations of male youths which first appear i...

