Debarking

1. The process of decreasing the size of vocal chord tissue in dogs to soften the loudness of barking

2. The removal of bark from wood

1. I find debarking to be extremely unethical

2. The wood is debarked and then cut into equally sized planks

by keyboard8 August 18, 2024

Dubfunking

When a teammate is dying more than once a minute in a competitive game

"Bro, our damage dealer has died 10 times in 7 minutes, he's dubfunking."

by averagemercyfan March 22, 2024

Denking

Saying a shitty opinion about someone or something.

Damn, he won't stop denking.

by 2b3heart March 24, 2024

debugging

The process of mentally smashing one's keyboard against the monitor while desperately trying to have a logical conversation with a computer over and over again but utterly failing every time.

Person 0: Yo dude, have you fixed your code yet?
Person 1: No, I haven't. I've been debugging for the past few hours but I still have no idea why it isn't working.

by Romeo.py April 18, 2024

dunking the cookies

When you're spotting your homie on bench press and you lower your ballsack in to his mouth

I was at the gym with Charles and he tried dunking the cookies on me

by melomelo11 December 13, 2024

DunKings

An unspeakable sex act performed by a Southie.

My friend Don gave a wicked DunKings to this hot redhead he met at the O'Malleys last night

by Donna Pier February 25, 2025

Debunkism

The elevation of debunking from a methodological tool to an ideology—a systematic commitment to exposing falsehoods that becomes itself immune to critique. Where healthy skepticism uses debunking as one tool among many, Debunkism makes debunking the primary goal, the default posture, the measure of intellectual virtue. It's scientism applied to myth-busting: the assumption that anything can and should be debunked, that the debunker's stance is always the rational one, that exposure is always progress. Debunkism becomes problematic when it loses sight of what's being debunked and why, when it debunks for the sake of debunking, when it mistakes its own posture for proof. It's skepticism that has forgotten to be skeptical about itself.

"He spends all his time on YouTube debunking wellness trends, conspiracy theories, and spiritual experiences. Ask him what he believes, and he says 'I just debunk false claims.' That's Debunkism—debunking as identity, as purpose, as ideology. But debunking without a positive framework is just destruction without construction. Skepticism is a tool; Debunkism is a hammer looking for nails, whether they're there or not."

by Dumu The Void February 28, 2026