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Metafiction 

"Fiction which knows that it is just made up".

A story is a kind of lie we like to hear. As readers we throw ourselves into the world of literature and fiction to "escape" from the real world. Literature is a form of escapism. The authors don't declare to us that the story is a lie and so they make the story convincing and enjoyable to read. This is a postmodern tendency known as "metafiction".
Jeanette Winerson's "Sexing the Cherry" is a core example of Metafiction.

"Metafiction? It's a postmodern term that creates a world of fantasy and makes the imagination spiral out of control".
Metafiction by purplepearl May 13, 2011
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metafiction 

1.Tall tales

2.Self-help books for writers.
Example 1: You gonna write one of your metafiction blog posts about how last night with that girl turned out? Too bad she ditched you. Nobody on the internet has to know that though.

Example 2: Wow, I really enjoyed A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I think I am going to go write some metafiction about my friends and my life now.
metafiction by JakeinthedirtyD February 22, 2009
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Of or relating to the meta
The way he sat in a chair is metamic
metamic by Beetlejuice6969 December 31, 2019
A word that uses "meta" as (separate) prefix to emphasize the sovereignty over any other comparative. On a scale from 1 to 10, it wouldnt fit on the scale, one could say it would sit at 11.
Substantives(nouns), adjectives and verbs become metadicts once they use the prefix for the reason above. However the state of being a metadict is additional, they still are whatever they used to be, too.
1. "This movie is meta bad." - Meta bad or metabad becomes the metadict.
This means, that this movie is not just the worst, it is so bad, that it isnt even on the scale that measures the badness.

2. "Im going meta eating." - Meta eating or metaeating becomes the metadict.
Translates to, eating so much as physically and or psychologically possible.

3. "You are a meta idiot." - Meta idiot or metaidiot becomes the metadict.
Basically insults a person as someone with every fibre of existence being idiotic.
metadict by uZ Cr4zy November 24, 2021

metadictionary 

a book with douchey meta bullshit, almost exclusively used by beta douches.
The only good use of a metadictionary is hitting the idiot using the thing across the head
metadictionary by hobbledd December 11, 2022
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
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026

Nerd neck 

A "human" that spends so much time playing video games that their posture is level nerd neck. Everytime anyone goes tryhard they hunch down and their neck gets longer there fore a nerd neck is always hunched down cause they're always going try hard. In other words a nerd neck is a try hard, since their neck is 100% longer than the average human being due to playing too many video games and taking them serious, nerd necks are not even considered human anymore but something more sad. Nerd necks are often found on fortnite, their natural habitat usually being tilted towers.
What a fucking nerd neck!

He is building so fast, nerd neck!

Looser more like a nerd neck ha!
Nerd neck by D Sandwich Maker February 5, 2019
Word of the Day on June 25, 2026