tween

Noun. - A person in between childhood and teenhood, approx. 12-14 years old, mostly used to describe females only. This specific distinction appeared when corporations realized that tweens were a specific, marketable demographic with purchasing power of their own. Now, tween-oriented products such as The Jonas Brothers and tween lifestyle guides like iCarly exist.
I can't believe this generation! I just saw a bunch of tweens with makeup and miniskirts marching into Forever 21.
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zombie outbreak

The tendency of the zombie horror subgenre to become remarkably popular approximately every twenty years, then fade away. Zombie outbreaks have been noted during the mid-eighties and the late zeroes.

So named because the fad behaves like a zombie horde, first appearing as a controlled instance, then escalating while no-one's looking and finally making the leap to the general populace with mass mainstream multimedia. Eventually the fad has no demographic left to consume, and rots away.
Yesterday Isaac spent the whole carpool ride telling me about his zombie apocalypse survival plan in detail. He's totally buying into the current zombie outbreak.

Zombieland, Plants vs. Zombies, The Walking Dead... I've had enough! I hope this zombie outbreak dies off soon.
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white Mecca

Noun. - Slang term for New York City, derived from young white people's unrestrained adoration and reverence for the city. Often used derisively or ironically.
Of course Ron isn't spending the vacation here; he's on his yearly pilgrimage to white Mecca.

Oh my God, you went to college in NYC? That is my favorite place in the world. It's like, my Mecca.
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Maya fever

Noun. - The belief, with varying degrees of seriousness, that the world will end on December 21, 2012, based on a highly idiosyncratic interpretation of the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar, which pinpoints this precise date as the end of a 125-year long cycle.
Why are we planning on having kids, anyway? It's not like they'll live to see 2013.

Katrina has a serious case of Maya fever. I don't think the "2012" movie helped matters at all.
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stall-what

Verb. - To answer a question with "What?" not because you misheard, but because you need a moment to process the information or think of an answer while the person repeats themselves. May be done multiple times in succession. Often a knee-jerk reaction.

Noun. - The action of stall-whatting.
Jainy didn't know how to explain the broken vase; she had to stall-what Mom like three times in a row when she asked her.

When Lorraine asked me if we were going out, I was so shocked I did a reflex stall-what.
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niche nerd

Noun. - A nerd who is only interested in a very well-defined sub-subset of nerd culture. While nerds are generally believed to like comics, video games, D&D, sci-fi, anime and astrophysics all at the same time, the niche nerd enjoys one or two things and tends to ignore or downright repudiate the rest.
As a niche nerd of extremely refined taste, I find your proposition of going to Comic-Con downright laughable.

Don't bother trying to buy Mick a video game for his birthday; he only likes Japanese RPG's for the Playstation One made during the first half of the nineties.
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Benetton

Verb. - To choose one's friends based on their race in order to end up with a thoroughly multi-ethnic social circle, with the goal of appearing as a sensitive, varied individual who doesn't see color. This is normally carried out by white people. Named after Benetton clothing company ads from the nineties, which were multi-ethnic to a fault. The word is rarely used by those who do it.

An offshoot of quirk hunting.
Ever since I told April that I have an Inuit pen pal, she's been begging me to show her his Facebook. She's just Benettonning.

Wesley went to a black mass to try and Benetton his circle of friends a bit. I don't think it's working.
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