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Asterism 

Any one of a number of heinously outdated colloquialisms; their rhetorical power lies in their deplorable ability to frustrate or incite hilarity. Upon utterance, a speaker will likely generate the following behavioral, cerebral, or emotional responses:
1) Externalized disgust (behavioral)
2) Debilitating brain aneurisms (cerebral)
3) Crushing submission (emotional)
They should be avoided in day-to-day vernacular, and hopefully eventually removed from English nomenclature.
Various Asterisms:
Alas (conjunction)
Up a crick (prepositional phrase)
Circle the wagons (verb)
Po-dunk (adjective)
MMMMMkay (declarative)
Cotton-picking (adjective {racial})
By golly (declarative)
Gosh darn (defamatory)
Rats (declarative)
Hippity-hoppity (crack whore)
Gung-ho (adjective)
The list goes on...
Asterism by drizzake & co. April 23, 2008
Related Words

astxrism 

An amazing friend they can be sassy and playful and they love attention! Treat them right and you’ll be happy but they can be a bit rough and mean just watch out
“Astxrism is so cute right?” “Omg yeah
astxrism by Iwachan100 November 30, 2020

Austrism 

When an Australian has autism but is in the country Australia so the word Austrism is autism but it has a nationality.
It’s so sad Mary, I found out my son has austrism and will need extra help
An unspoken exception to a declaritive statement. Often when making promises to women.
I'll give you anything you want baby. Astrisk.

I'll use a condom. Astrisk.
Astrisk by dajman_007 August 25, 2009

astrosmurfing 

the practice of creating or promoting a fake slang term for marketing purposes, especially with the use of seemingly impropmtu celebrity sponsorship. Astrosmurfing is derived from the terms Astroturfing, which means fake grassroots participation, and smurf, which is a catchall term used by Smurfs (of the Belgian comic and television franchise of the same name).
Taco Bell paying Kim Kardashian to adopt hashtag "on fleek" would diminish the term to little more than an example of cheap astrosmurfing.
astrosmurfing by attenuatingloop November 4, 2015
I word used for someone who has a mixture of downs and short term memory associated with the illuminate
Man Kanye has a case of Autrism today.
Autrism by LaughingLatino March 8, 2017