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Buzzword Salad

Buzzword Salad is a variety of word salad that heavily uses "buzzwords" rather than conventional words. Imagine an ad man or PR hack speaking in tongues about the next safe tobacco product in a harsh CDC report.
I thought that word-salad was pure gibberish, but there was a signal of the "buzzwords" here. Buzzword Salad is a variety of word salad that heavily uses "buzzwords" rather than conventional words. Imagine an ad man or PR hack speaking in tongues about the next safe tobacco product in a adversarial CDC report.

Imagine an IPCC citation, which is legitimate, blurred with the buzz-word salad.

Imagine the next CDC report, mixed with an antivaccine essay.
by Essar March 8, 2019
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Buzzword McJargon

Someone who uses buzzwords in a nonsensical rant in an attempt to appear leet.
Oh Shit, Duck! Here comes Buzzword McJargon... And He's wearing his helmet again. Maybe if he doesn't see us he wont come over here.

Buzzword: "Hey guys I wrote a erlang script that will corrupt your firewall by spraying udp packets with invalid checksums."
by 2600 February 11, 2008
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buzzword commando

Someone who over uses technical or industry terms to seem more knowledgeable about a subject than they really are.
"Yeah, I've worked on ERP's, OSS's using the latest ORMS all feeding into a No-SQL data base."

That' dudes a fucking buzzword commando.
by odoylerules1 December 25, 2011
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Buzzword Warrior

An individual, typically on an online forum, who uses buzzwords to try to make an argument instead of providing proper evidence and research that backups or strengthens their points.
Typically used as a means to lash out at people they disagree with, and see as a threat trying to ruin their sense of enjoyment.
Commenter 1: "Huh, the scene at the beginning of the movies comes off as a bit sexist. I wonder if the director was aware of this."

Commenter 2: "Yeah, it does seems a little sexist. Though I'll admit it's doesn't look intentional. I think the director just didn't catch it. I think the writer is probably more at fault."

Buzzword Warrior: "Oh shut the fuck up! Yet more SJWs trying to push their feminazi propaganda!"
by Grunt_Man11 March 29, 2015
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Buzzword Sandwich

A failed attempt to appear knowledgeable about a subject by just spouting off buzzwords, all sandwiched together, usually in the form of broken, heavily accented english, in response to an IT question.
Q: What is an IP Address
A: We can use IP technology, google queries, powershell answers, and collaboration to reach out and circle back.

Amit used a Buzzword Sandwich rather than just saying she didn't know
by Peter Gozynja September 4, 2019
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Buzzword Compliant

A tongue-in-cheek expression used to suggest that a particular product supports features simply because they are currently fashionable.
The pointy haired boss suggested we rewrite the entire company intranet so that it would be fully buzzword compliant.
by erikm100 October 30, 2011
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Vizzini buzzword

A word that does not mean what you think it means, but you are against it anyway.

Not specific to one group or ideology. Most people do this with something or another.
The use of communism as a Vizzini buzzword would make McCarthy proud.

Railing against automatic weapons when talking about Glocks shows you don't know what an automatic weapon is. It's just a Vizzini buzzword to you.
by EpitomeSlater July 10, 2021
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