Empty Net Syndrome

This debilitating syndrome is caused when ones child/children suddenly cease to play hockey. It is almost exclusively experienced by people of Canadian descent. Symptoms can include inexplicable weeping, excessive consumption of poutine, and in unusually severe cases, visits to the local hockey rink in an attempt to socialize with the hockey crowd.

Don't make eye contact with her, she has a severe case of Empty Net Syndrome.

Empty Net Syndrome by Jafeica November 3, 2015

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Empty Net Syndrome

When your friends that are normally online to help you chat your way through your work day decide to go on vacation or get jobs where they can't be online anymore. Similar to empty nest, you feel very alone!

Chrisy: I'm going to New York for the week.
Kim: Oh i got a new job. I start today, so I wont be online anymore during work hours.
Jen: Screw you guys, I'm going to have a serious case of Empty Net Syndrome. :-(

Empty Net Syndrome by jenbertoni March 19, 2009

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A Booger In The Nose Of Progress

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.

"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006

Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

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🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.

Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻

🤡🫵🏻 by Ubeenbamboozledson May 31, 2026

Word of the Day on June 1, 2026

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fogey

Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!

You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)

fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005

Word of the Day on May 31, 2026

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Jarlic

Minced garlic in a jar

Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread

Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020

Word of the Day on May 30, 2026

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Pitpig

An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.

That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.

Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026

Word of the Day on May 29, 2026

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