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warpie

A young and/or contemporary person dressing and acting as if they were hippies living in the 1960s and 70s, thus they are hippies living in a time warp. Not to be confused with "trekkie".

Generally, "warpies" are male or groups of both genders, and "warpie chicks" are female.
"Did you see the warpies with their beads, ponytails and bellbottoms?".
by ksmanning June 27, 2009
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anseraphobia

An extreme fear of a goose or geese.

It might also be a fear of being goosed.
Fiona is terrified of any geese she sees. She has anseraphobia.
by ksmanning October 15, 2012
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chartjunk

All visual elements in charts and graphs that are not necessary to comprehend the information represented on the graph, or that distract the viewer from this information.

Coined by Edward Tufte, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University;
Member, Recovery Independent Advisory Panel for President Barack Obama
(1) USA Today had a graph with so much chartjunk all over it I couldn't even tell what the point was.

(2) His PowerPoint had so much clipart ! All that chartchunk hid so much of the real info that I was able to fall asleep for the whole talk.
by ksmanning March 25, 2010
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