Trendjacking

Trendjacking occurs when a trending topic on Twitter is hijacked with irrelevant tweets from spam users.

Google Wave is one of the top trending topics on Twitter, but it's been hijacked by hoards of spam peddlers - trendjacking.

Trendjacking by Crazy Coder September 30, 2009

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Trendjacking

Trendjacking is a marketing strategy that leverages popular trends to promote a brand. This approach involves incorporating the brand into trending topics, hashtags, sounds, online challenges or events into content to engage audiences and stay culturally relevant.

Trendjacking helped our brand become relevant and increase awareness by tying our product to a trending challenge on Tiktok that was viral.

Trendjacking by CommProf February 21, 2025

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transjacking

transjacking is hijacking of a conversation to make it be about trans people, as a way of engaging in transphobia. (Originally seen in 2017 in subreddit /r/gendercynical)

"Every time some random women's issue comes up, some TERF or transphobe will start transjacking the discussion to argue the issue is somehow made worse by the unrelated fact that trans people exist."

transjacking by Lycha Rose January 25, 2021

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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."

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"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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