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A person whose conduct deviates from the conventional, giving everyone around him the creeps.

This word has its origins from the Malayalam motion picture 'Kumbalangi Nights', where the antagonist Shammi, a family-man psychopath, breaks bad at times, making the people around him uncomfortable.
Naveen: Did ya see Ravi during the presentation? He was acting all weird with those irrelevant questions
Akhil: Told ya! He's a real Shammi
by metalsoap October 12, 2019
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A serene coastal town in the state of Kerala, India. There's a plethora of assholes, and thieves here.
A: Dude, my new boss is a complete arsehole

B: He's probably from Kollam
by metalsoap September 14, 2019
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The political commentator Bethany Mandel defines woke as "woke is sort of the idea that ...uhm...I......This is going to be one of those moments that's going to be viral...I mean woke is something hard to define.... and we spent an entire chapter defining it.. It is the sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression and ummm sorry it's hard to explain in 15 seconds "
Babu: I'm going to become a minimalist from now
Raju: What a woke!
Babu: What is that?
Raju: it is sort of the idea that ...uhm...I......This is going to be one of those moments that's going to be viral...I mean woke is something hard to define.... and we spent an entire chapter defining it.. It is the sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression and ummm sorry it's hard to explain in 15 seconds
by metalsoap March 18, 2023
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