A cover term is a word (or phrase) that provides a more general, legal, or accurate overarching term for a set of dissimilar terms that share a common property. Synonym: category.

"Cover term" may sound like "comfort term" when enunciated poorly or quickly, which might suggest the cover term is being used to make the original word (or phrase) more palatable or less anxiety producing to the audience. While this may occur, it is never the primary objective of using a cover term.
"Shelter" is the cover term for rent, mortgage payments, housing, and so forth.
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A term for when something stupid and dumb happens to you on a game.Im not saying being gay is stupid and dumb
You:This kid just no scoped me that's so Gay (Gamer Term)
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When you call out cheats for no reason at all.
Term: OMFG HE JUST FLEW THROUGH THE WALL FUCKKK HACKERS
Anyone: omg stop pulling a term
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When you forget things because you smoke a lot.
Dude, you remember what happened last night?

Nah.

Dang. Smoke term memory loss.
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Key Terms : adj (th-italic) & pronounciate 2 simple word as

key - keys

term - terms

this participle tilde ‡ indirect subject ‡ definition

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Time magazine updates "KEY TERMS" in november A yr ender Announcement
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To be honest who reads this you just scroll past, even the game designers make it possible to skip it as fast as possible.
did you just actually read the privacy policy and terms of service.
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The opposite of Layman’s terms. To make something much more complicated than it has to be. A convoluted nonsensical explanation.
Jerry: Ellie and I are breaking up.
Mike: wait what happened?
Jerry: Well to put it into Laywoman’s Terms, she told me that she “had a dream that I cheated on her with her friend Nichole who is a Scorpio born on a full moon, and her amethyst crystal said our relationship was incompatible”.
Mike: that makes no god damn sense.
Jeremy: exactly
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