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affectation 

Something you do to make yourself seem cooler than you are. A lot of the time you don't really realize you're doing it, but all of the time you look a fool to everyone watching, assuming they've grown up more than you have.

Almost everyone has some affectations, but people with a lot of them stick out like sore thumbs and they don't even know it. See try-hard.

People in high school and college (especially) tend to have a lot of affectations because they are stupid. Or because they don't have the life experience to know that they are being stupid. Oftentimes both.
The college sophomore down the hall who wears a fedora every day (known, unknowingly, to his hallmates as "Fedora Guy"): "I like to think I'm an endearingly mysterious gentleman."

The kid with the fake accent/other contrived manner of speaking: "The way I casually throw in SAT words into my everyday speech makes the Normals uncomfortable, which is really cool because that means I'm impressing them and earning their respect."

Self-proclaimed nerd: "I really like showing people that I know a whole lot about really obscure things like math and the internet, because when I meet people who are 'in the know' like me and who actually deserve to be in my presence, they'll know what I'm talking about and they'll be really impressed, which is epic hacks!"

Dumb college kid at top-tier liberal arts school: "I'm so glad I've finally found a community where people like me can just bounce ideas off one another. I'm really excited about completely changing the way I think about everything by surrounding myself with such a diverse population of people who are exactly like me. Also I really really care about the actually important stuff, like politics and Darfur and voting and political correctness and intellectual conversations and getting drunk once in a while and being offended while remaining open-minded."

Generic affected individual: "What? No, that's not an affectation, that's just the way I've always done that. No, you've got it all wrong--I do it for a reason. Plus--heh heh--it just plain looks cool."

No dice, buddy.
affectation by futanari basashi January 23, 2009

Adopting Affectations

"I sayeth good sir, why art thou adopting affectations towardeth me?"
Affectaed is a very popular Youtuber within the K-Pop community. She makes informational and opinion videos about K-Pop, everything from the entertainment point of view, music to behind the scene.

Potential earnings are $ 26.59k per video.
Average video views: 4.91M
Total Views: 83.37M

Joined Youtube in 2016 and lives in Norway.
Gained over 300k subscribers in less than a year. Fearlessly opinionated and influences a lot of people in the K-Pop community.

Subscribers rank:
58,098th

Entertainment rank:
13,177th

Video views rank:
65,546th

Country rank:
60th
Did you watch affectaed's newest video?
Omg yasss, what a queen.
affectaed by jeonmcflurry January 19, 2021

affectatious 

to wear something out of character in an effort to put up a facade.
Zach's white shirt was very affectatious with all the extra buttons and loops. He seems like a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy.
affectatious by quixar August 8, 2009
Affectaed is a popular funny kpop YouTuber. She’s a multi Stan, she gets 2000 - 3000+ Subscribers every week.
Person 1 : Have you seen Affectead’s recent video?
Person 2: Yes it’s so funny hahah.
Person 1: Period
(Affectaed a kpop Stan YouTuber who is funny)
Affectaed by facties January 9, 2021

Three or More Affectations Rule 

This rule states that if someone has three or more affectations from the neck up (i.e. garish scarves, ostentatious earrings, extravagant nose rings, designer glasses, gaudy facial hair, etc.) is probably an attention-starved prick. It is strongly advised that attention-starved pricks guilty of violating this policy cease and desist at once.
Guy 1: Look at that guy and his ridiculous mustache, glasses, and scarf.

Guy 2: Yeah, he is definitely breaking the Three or More Affectations Rule.
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
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Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
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A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
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murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
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In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.

Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."
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