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Acculturation 

Anthropology: Culture change as a result of extended direct contact between two previous autonomous groups.
Acculturation occured between Germanic tribes.
Acculturation by Tyra_Nid October 28, 2004
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acaulescent 

having a very short stem
"Petunia, did you sleep with him last night?"
"Psh, no, no. He was a bit too acaulescent for me. Like a baby's thumb."
(1) To limit, temper, or withhold the expression of one's thought or opinion because of fear that one will be ridiculed or humiliated for expressing it by others around them. (2) The act of limiting, silencing, or prohibiting the expression of anohter person's thoughts or opinions by ridiculing or humiliating them.
(1). Bob had to aculture his support for the New York Yankees when he moved to Boston. (2) As a child of blue-collar parents, Tom inherently supported tariffs and quotas in trade policy, but he acultured those views at his meeting with the economists, who all treated protectionism as though it was some oddball religious cult. (3). Bob's Boston co-workers would always aculture Bob's comments supporting the New York Yankees, so it seemed as if everyone in the office was a fan of the Boston Red Sox. (4). Sally was a devout Christian fundamentlst, but she had to aculture her views on Divine Creationism while writing her paper about Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
aculture by PaulaNYC August 29, 2011

Acculturation 

Adopting the ways of a culture that isn't yours.
Acculturation is what happens when you live with French people for a while and start going "ooh la la" and eating snails.
Acculturation by CroissantArcher January 24, 2025

Acultery 

When someone is in more than one cult
John joined a cult but sunk around and joined another; he was committing acultery.
Acultery by NotNit May 4, 2025

anal asault

When you sit down on a seatbelt or hook and it goes up your ass.
I sat on a hook the other day, it was proper anal asault mate
anal asault by Mamamiji May 22, 2019