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Ninety-Niner

A person who moved out to San Francisco during the Internet gold rush at the turn of the 21st century, roughly in the year 1999.

It is a play on the term "Forty-Niners," which refers to people who moved out to San Francisco during the gold rush around the year 1849.
Yes, I did come to San Francisco in August of 1999 to work for pets.com, but I find the term "ninety-niner" offensive.
Ninety-Niner by NYCDavid July 23, 2012
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Ninety-Niners 

Lab slang describing a group of quantum-computing researchers that has prepared a Bell-state using a two-qubit entangling gate with a fidelity equal or higher than 99 %.
German lab rat: The Raman laser is not locking again.
Indian lab rat: Hold my beer, I’m tweaking the PID parameters.
Spanish lab rat: Come on guys, without sideband-cooling we’re not Ninety-Niners anymore!
Ninety-Niners by Hyonoko September 28, 2021

Ninety-Niners 

A person who has exhausted all ninety-nine possible weeks of unemployment benefits.
"Tier 5 to Survive" has become the rallying cry of the "ninety-niners", those unemployed who have found themselves jobless for the longest period of time and have nearly or already exhausted all ninety-nine possible weeks of unemployment benefits.
Ninety-Niners by paulchristenson December 20, 2010

Ninety-Niners 

A Man who Engages in Sexual Intercourse With Other Men
Usually This Term Refers To All Nazis.
Hey Look at Those two Guys kissing,they must be Ninety-Niners
Ninety-Niners by Corey Bloom October 22, 2006

Four-Ninetynined

To be duped by The Machine of Consumerism to buy things you didn't know you "need" or "want" for the seemingly reasonable price of $4.99.
When you go to a mass retailer for some toilet paper and your total bill is over $50, you've been Four-Ninetynined!

"I would really like to take a vacation but I Four-Ninetynined myself to a staycation at Motel 6"
Four-Ninetynined by Kmt5161 April 28, 2013
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