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Hyphen Speak

The language of teenage white girls with an IQ below room temperature. This is when people end their sentences with a hyphen (a dash) or say the phrase "I-" by itself. This was popularized around the time "Sis I-" and "And I oop-" got attention. It is usually linked with VSCO girls, Gacha kids, Roblox Aesthetics, Twitter stans, and many other annoying types of people online. 9 times out of 10, the people who do this are usually sensitive, stan some sort of creator, idolize the LGBTQ+ community, are in the LGBTQ+ community itself, or are on the left-wing (Basically your average Twitter user). This quickly sparked memes making fun of this. One of the most popular examples is "Bitches be like 'I- I- You- Wow I-'." Along with memes, it has also started many Discord servers and communities against Hyphen Speak, some of which I am in myself.
Audrey: I-

Jason: I will tear you apart limb from limb if you continue doing that. You have been using hyphen speak for the last year and everyone hates you for it. This is why you have no friends, your family doesn't love you, and why you can't find a job. Stop pretending like you're stuttering online. It's annoying and unnecessary.
Audrey: OMG I can not believe you said that- like-
by Sclaraidus June 26, 2021
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something you say to siri to destroy your friends phone
me secretly on my exs phone: hyphen,hyphen,hyphen,hyphen,hyphen

her: wHy DoEs My pHoNe NoT wOrK
by redraiderAK on youtube April 20, 2020
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Hyphen Years

The years between your birth and death, when what you believe or reject and do (and not do) on this side of eternity will determine your eternal destiny after your last breath.
Imperfect as we are, but with the help of the Holy Spirit, who gives us wisdom and understanding and empowers us to bear fruit in every good work, we can labor to enjoy meaningful hyphen years on this side of heaven—a life well-lived for Jesus, while promoting Him to the lost souls.
by Numerati July 31, 2024
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Walton Hyphen Market

Another term for Wal-Mart, used by those who detest it. The term Walton Hyphen Market has six letters in each word, thus forming the Mark of the Beast, 666. This is quite amusing to those who equate The Wal-Mart Corporation to Satan.
Chad: We should protest and get that new Walton Hyphen Market closed down.

Eric: Let's make picket signs, all we need is some cardboard, markers and boards... Hell, we can probably get all that at Wal-Mart and save some time.

Chad: Yeah, then later we can rip-off jokes from Seth MacFarlen and post them on teh interwebz.
by CraigChrist January 17, 2010
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neva hyphen

neva hyphen
The use of the word "neva" (idiom for 'never') to divide a multisyllabic word in place of the hyphen (-) punctuation mark to express extreme unlikelihood or impossibility.
The neva hyphen as punctuation: "I will abso-neva-lutely agree that a woman deserves to be hit or abused for any reason."
by ordinaryheroine May 22, 2016
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Quad Hyphen

Surrounding a name by quad hyphens symbolises that the subject hates orphans.
P1: Did you see the news today about ----Elon Musk----?
P2: Why is his name surrounded by Quad Hyphens?
P1: That's cause he hates orphans
by moeszyslak May 20, 2022
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next line hyphen

A method to differentiate a dash placed at the end of a line to indicate that a word has been separated into two parts because it did not fit on a line, from a hyphen inserted between two or more words, such as "hands-on", "brother-in-law", or "state-of-the-art".
It is best to differentiate a dash placed at the end of a line to indicate that a word has been separated into two parts because it did not fit on a line, from a hyphen in a compound word such as "hands-on".

A "compound word" is comprised of two or more words and has a hyphen between each word.

If a line ends in "able-" and the next line says "bodied", readers automatically interpret "able", followed by "body", to mean "ablebodied". Most people do not remember that the correct way to write "ablebodied" is with a hyphen (able-bodied). I call this method to differentiate dashes from hyphens the "next line hyphen".

If the last word on a line of text says "for-", and the first word of the next line says "profit", the logical way to interpret the dash is as being a dash, though in reality, the writer means “for-profit”, not “forprofit”.
by but for February 26, 2018
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