Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

Originally, this is what people used to say after giving a long, nonprofit speech or lecture devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of powerful talks given at the main TED (technology, entertainment and design) annual event or one of its many satellite events around the world.

By 2015, This phrase then got broken down and used whenever people finished typing up an extensively long social media post.

Then, after like, 2018, this phrase got even more deteriorated (mainly by Gen Z or Gen X trying to sound like Gen Z) to the point that people now say it after saying a sentence, or, even worse, a sentence fragment because they think they’re being funny.

My boss kinda pisses me off. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk LOL I’m hilarious, time to go on social media for the next 7 hours.

by TheAlwaysCorrect1 January 7, 2023

Rat Talk

noun – Casual, meaningless chatter, often full of nonsensical ideas or pointless rambling. Like rats squeaking back and forth with no purpose, rat talk fills the air without adding value or making sense. It’s senseless talk just for the sake of talking.

Craig and Francis were caught up in a whole lot of rat talk, just passing time with nonsense.

by illuminatihabits November 22, 2024

Chip talk

A lie

Oh, he's just using typical chip talk.

by Mayweall2000 February 4, 2017

Free talk Hour

A "Free Talk Hour" is when you get to say the most unhinged and crazy things.

A "I call free talk hour"
B "alright whos' your biggest smash

by Aven_69 August 10, 2025

list talked

List talked- talking about every menial task you have to do with an inflection at the end of each one.

That bitch Mary list talked every fucking thing she had to do today. "First I got to showerrr, then I have to put on my clooothes, then I got to go to start the caaaar, then I got to go to the stoooore, then I got to go to the baaaank, etc......

by anonymous January 25, 2021

Talk-Prison

When someone (against your will) locks you in your own personal internal prison whilst they carry on a (mostly one-sided) conversation you cannot exit from.

Every Friday, without fail, Creepy Steve sits at my bar and puts me in talk-prison.

by KorFow January 13, 2022

chalk talk

Writing on a chalk board to communicate or remember.

The professor decided to chalk talk us through the first 15 minutes of our class today.

by Ereck Flowers May 29, 2019