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bitbucket 

Where electronic or digital data goes when it is lost or deleted. Derives from bit, meaning a unit of information, with bucket implying a common reservoir in which the units are collected for recycling when no longer in use.
Two hours' work went into the bitbucket when the power went out.
bitbucket by Downstrike September 28, 2004
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Bitbucketeer

Bitbucketeer - noun : A user of Bitbucket. A developer that has chosen Bitbucket over Github and other version control systems.
"I think github is too .git centered, why not Bitbucket?"
- Developers last words before joining the ranks of the Bitbucketeers
Bitbucketeer by TheBitbucketeer December 5, 2013

bitbucket 

Verb: Bitbucketing

The act of falling apart at every opportune moment. Becoming unreliable.
Netflix bitbucketed the other day. It was a pain as I couldn't watch any shows.

Stop bitbucketing and get your act together.
bitbucket by carysma November 22, 2019

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