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scanslation

The art of turning a manga of one language into one of a different language. Includes translation of the story and editing of the actual artwork. Scanslations are done by fans for the whole fan community.
Scanslation groups are part of a large online manga fanbase.
by Anon. February 27, 2004
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scapulation

The art of penetrating someone's scapula (i.e. shoulder blade) by forcing your fingers between the bone and the muscles. Must be done while a person is unawares and unwilling.
That hurt! I was scapulated!

After my scapulation, I felt dirty and ashamed.
by Megz n Denzer July 9, 2004
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Swagflation

When there is so much swag, that the value of it drops. Because everyone has it. This is usually due to the presence of a swagmachine.
OMG swagflation much, everyone is sagging! Not cool bro.

Too much good stuff? Too much swag!
by Jonathan Applegate October 18, 2011
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Slagflation

When the annual rate of slags is rapidly increasing.
Mate slagflation is mad in chelmo atm.
by Brad slag kidd May 12, 2016
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Hyper Stagflation

A period of extremely slow economic growth, if any, and extremely high unemployment, while prices continue to rise, all of which are above normal crises levels.
If Obama continues to print and spend fiat money (regardless of the deficit) and that money permeates the economy and does not create jobs, we will eventually experience hyper stagflation.
by SupportFreedom1 August 23, 2009
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scabulation

When you masturbate or have sex with no lubrication and you get scabs on you bag or your underbelly of your helmet ( the gobbler)
Yo, man I was banging this chick last night and I got the worst scabulation on the underbelly of my cock.

I was wanking to some pr0n yesterday and I wasn't using lubrication and I got mad scabulation down stairs.
by Steve L July 11, 2006
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Scanlation

Scanlation, from SCAN (or 'SCANned') + transLATION, is the unauthorized translation of a foreign graphic novel, usually Japanese yaoi or other sexually explicit work, from Japanese into English. Typically the scanlator scans the hardcopy text into a computer, and electronically whites out the Japanese characters in the thought balloons to replace them with English text.

Illegality is the essence of scanlation, as opposed to authorized translations in which rights are granted, royalties scheduled, and chain of intellectual property is maintained. Many scanlators will argue that the more erotic or hardcore types of manga (yaoi, bara maga) are rarely translated into English, and that even a Japanese best-seller can sit untranslated for years. (Example: the graphic novels of Gengorah Tagame, like his three-volume PRIDE, which has as subject matter the training of a novice in BSDM techniques and includes very explicit sexual language and images, and scenes of torrture.)
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-- "I'm reading a scanlation of a Japanese 'bear-loving-bear' manga."

-- "Is it any good?"

-- "Definitely gets the plot points across, though sometimes the English is a little sketchy. The scanlator uses spellings like "colour" and "honor" so it's probably someone from the British Commonwealth or perhaps a Japanese person who learned English using English spellngs. No way of telling, really, their blogs don't have to say where they live or what they do."

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by al-in-chgo April 7, 2010
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