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Hapax legomenon 

noun (pl. hapax legomena or hapaxes)

A word that appears only once in a text corpus or body of writing—be this a particular author's oeuvre, a work of substantial length, or a language's entire collection of writing, including the Twittersphere.

From Ancient Greek hápax legómenon ("thing once said").
The old Ottoman Governments regarded this clan of manticratic peers with a mixture of reverence and distrust.
—T. E. Lawrence, 1926

Despite the constant negative press covfefe
Donald Trump producing a hapax legomenon of his own, 2017
Hapax legomenon by DrSJohnson January 30, 2020
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hapax legomenon 

the fuck should i know?
hapax legomenon by Duke September 24, 2003

Hapax legomenon 

A Hapax legomenon is a word or expression that only occurs one time.

This can be abbreviated as Hapax.
There is this one word in a book that I found that is only mentioned once. This is an Hapax legomenon.
a word meaning a teacher that is bitchy and likes bananas
person 1: hey, do you know who we're having as a teacher this year?
person 2: no, but i heard she's a hapaala
hapaala by kurtbajs February 3, 2014
ha•pa (hä’pä) adj. 1. Slang. of mixed racial heritage with partial roots in Asian and/or Pacific Islander ancestry. n. 2. Slang. a person of such ancestry. {der./Hawaiian: hapa haole. (half white)}
Kirk Hammett is Hapa.
hapa by Hapa Project September 28, 2005

BATASKILLIA HAPAKALA DONUT 

A word that means nothing in almost any language. It was made by a youtuber known as ownagepranks.
You tell the crazy lady that Bataskillia Hapakala Donut will take away the ghost