(noun): The swift and socially conscious action required to redeem yourself after making an awkward or tone-deaf joke, often by saying or doing something so woke and insightful that your friends instantly forgive you.
Example: "After joking, 'Guess women can’t parallel park,' he knew it was a quatwaffle, so he pivoted into a mini-rant about how systemic sexism impacts gender stereotypes in driving statistics."
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.