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Pinkwashing 

The act of using breast cancer to guilt consumers into buying a product which, if it had not been for the advent of aiding the cure for cancer, they would not have bought.
KFC: Together we can make the largest donation in Komen history.

Consumer: Stop pinkwashing me, you fuck-head! Why wouldn't I just donate money to breast cancer if I wanted to?! Everyone knows you benefit more than the cancer foundations!
Pinkwashing by SpaceMouse April 17, 2010
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Pinkwashing 

Riding on the LGBT rights while promoting ones political hatred.
E.g. Anti-immigration and far-right groups performing “gay pride” events at locations with a large Muslim population to insult Muslims or to expose alleged anti-gay hostility among Muslims.
"Are those Neo-Nazis campaining for LGBT rights?"
"They're just pinkwashing again"
Pinkwashing by JLieksa October 10, 2015
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pinkwashing 

the use of breast cancer by corporate marketers in which companies promote their products with claims to donate a percentage of proceeds to the cause
I'm so sick of of every retailer pinkwashing so that I'll by their pink merchandise - what if I hate the color pink?!
pinkwashing by Erin1234 January 6, 2009

Pinkwashing 

Making history or any event seem a lot more positive toward females then it was it actually.
Person one: “girls didn’t have hard back then, it was really men who had it hard. Women had so much power,”

Person two: “no they didn’t, stop pinkwashing history”
Pinkwashing by Sleeby November 10, 2019

Pinkwashing 

When the police use firehoses to control an Antifa protest.
Lots of wacky colored hairdos and strange odors from the crowd until the cops started pinkwashing them.
Pinkwashing by DrCruel October 30, 2023

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pinkwashitape by pinkwashitape July 21, 2021
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
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