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Escalate 

"Was Jenny at your house last night?"

"Yeah I escalated her."
Escalate by cocoap3bbles February 27, 2019

escalate 

To walk with exceptional smoothness and graceful ease.
This party's getting too bumpy, man, let's escalate over to the East Side.
escalate by wily_codger August 25, 2011

Escalate 

No matter what kind of misinformation statistics people are given on TV, females aren't better at de-escalating anything than males. Many of the people who live to escalate things are either female or effeminate.
Some, if not many females live to escalate things and not to de escalate them, so trying to bullshit people with statistics to push for more female law enforcement, when there's already too much law enforcement as it is, with people being over recruited and over policed is not going to change the reality of human nature, neither do statistics, no matter how convincing they sound. Some females have an interest in law enforcement, some have an interest in science, others have an interest in music or the things they have an interest in, but at the end of the day if somebody doesn't have an interest in something, trying to push them to develop an interest in it or change their way of thinking isn't making the world a better place the way some would claim it is, and it isn't a selfless cause.
Escalate by The Original Agahnim September 2, 2021

Queen of escalation

A reference to Taylor Hebert from Wildbow's "Worm" Alia 'Skitter', 'Weaver', K̵͚͕͈̺̖̈́͂́͝͝ê ͍̠̹̳̬̂̍̾̕̕þ̵̣̟̲̹̆̃̉͛̀͜h ͕͔̭͉͛̈́͒̆͘ͅṛ̴̨̣̗͕͂̄̉̌̌ï ͍̮̺͕̹́̑͂͐̉
A God once tried to kill Skitter. I don't see any gods around here, do you?
Yes, the queen of escalation escalated against god. And won.

Once, the queen of escalation tried to deescalate and surrendered to the lawful authorities. Over the next twelve hours, she killed one of the most powerful heroes in the world and a decorated military officer, and forced the evacuation of a square mile of city. She got a medal for it.

relationship escalator 

The social expectation that a romantic relationship should automatically follow a set of steps and lead to marriage, parenthood, and home ownership. This term is used primarily by people who want to get "off the escalator," who want to judge the success of relationships by criteria other than how smoothly and automatically the relationship gets more serious.

One sample template is "Meet someone > Dating > Sex > Move in together > Get married > Have kids"

Doing these things out of order is being off the relationship escalator: if you have sex on a first date, many people think your relationship can't, or shouldn't, eventually become more serious. If you move in with someone, moving back out again usually means that the relationship is over. Being polyamorous or participating in other kinds of non-monogamy is also being off the relationship escalator.
We broke up because he wanted to be on the relationship escalator, and I prefer to live alone.

Your dating profile suggests you're not on the relationship escalator, so you need to explain specifically what you're looking for.
relationship escalator by Enuja August 26, 2013

Mayonnaise On An Escalator 

Mayonnaise On An Escalator! Its Going Upstairs So See Ya Later. Bye Bye! To The Sky!
Dumb Human: Tf is Mayonnaise On An Escalator??

Epic Human: Mayonnaise On An Escalator. Its Going Upstairs So See Ya Later. Bye Bye! To The Sky!

Dumb Human: Oh Epic
Now Epic human: I am epic now YEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
pod person by Christopher M. May 9, 2005
Word of the Day on November 10, 2026
A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.

A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.

A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."
dead drop by rubberroom July 23, 2008
Word of the Day on November 9, 2026

No Surprises Wedding

A "No Surprises Wedding," or NSW, is a wedding invitation designation that tells attendees that there can be no unplanned announcements, engagements, events or speeches at the wedding - all actions must be pre-approved by the couple. Anyone who performs an unapproved "surprise" will be asked to leave the wedding early.

This designation comes from Reddit, where so many stories of bad wedding behavior indicated a need to communicate expectations for the wedding behavior of attendees.
You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Brian and Tom on October 31 at noon.

Please note that this wedding is child-free (under 10) and a No Surprises Wedding (NSW). Reach out to wedding planner Sami Smith to request approvals or exceptions; please note that exceptions will be rare. Limited child care for under-10s will be available. All approvals will be noted and included in planning. Unapproved, or surprise exceptions, will result in guests being asked to leave.
Word of the Day on November 8, 2026
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