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quick-save syndrome

The common psychological condition that results from spending too long playing video games with a quick-save/quick-load function. Symptoms of which include a desire to 'save' before making an important decision, in order to have the ability to back out should it go wrong.
Dude, I was about to ask a girl out on facebook, and instinctively pressed F5 just in case!
Woah, sounds like a severe case of quick-save syndrome

Hot Drop Quick Save 

When you unexpectedly fall off the bed while having sex and land on your back and pop back up and act like everything is fine.
"What was that loud noise last night, Becky?
Darrin was over and that was a hot drop quick save!"
Hot Drop Quick Save by vandeb12 November 2, 2018

quicksave 

A function assigned to a key in computer games which allows manual saving of the game without having to enter the game menu.
1. Let's just quicksave real quick before fighting all those enemies so I can load if I lose a hit point or waste too much ammo.
2. I died and forgot to quicksave before! Now I have to backtrack through the whole level!
3. Quicksaving is for pussies!
quicksave by qubodup September 19, 2010

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."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
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