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Found Family

A trope common in fiction and fanfiction. It is the phenomenon where a group of people come to love each other like family, even through (and because) they aren't biologically related. The LGBTQ+ community in particular tends to favor this trope because it allows them to escape overbearing or harmful biological family.

Found families can be found in real-life as well, as close friend groups may feel closer to each other than to biological family.
Found Family is also known as Families of Choice.
I found a lovely found family fanfiction about my favorite characters!

The author won't acknowledge it, but these character dynamics scream found family.
Found Family by Lizbet February 6, 2021
Word of the Day on August 22, 2022
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American Family Association

(n.) an allegedly non-profit ultra-conservative organization that advocates criminalizing homosexuality and lobbies against hate-crime legislature and same-sex marriage. The AFA has, at times, advocated gay-bashing and aheres to and publicizes the belief that all non-Christians are in league with Satan. The AFA (as it is known) owns over 180 radio stations and airs its message of intolerance and hatred through these venues. AFA members rationalize their views on homosexuality by claiming Hitler was gay (tell that to all the homosexuals who died in concentration camps)and to raise children in a Jewish household is to introduce them to a criminal way of life. The AFA submits that all AIDS patients should be quarentined.The AFA once called for a boycott of Ford Motors because Ford had offered benefits to the partners of their lesbian and gay employees. The Southern Poverty Law Center has investigated the AFA as a hate group and notes that it is "primarily an anti-gay organization."
Diane Gramely is a hate monger and spokesperson for the American Family Association of Pennsylvania.

famn damily

Just unscramble the first letter of each word; damn family
The whole famn damily was there!
famn damily by D. Jones May 27, 2005

Wikipedia Famous 

When you have achieved fame enough that you name and bio can be found on Wikipedia.
"Kurt Loder is Wikipedia famous, who knew"
"Only cool people are Wikipedia famous"
"Your a nobody if your not at least Wikipedia Famous"

poon famine 

a place or period of time devoid of poon.
like the irish potato famine, except with vagina in place of the potato.
Dude 1: "Dude, Michelle said she isn't putting out for a few weeks."

Dude 2: "That sucks dude. Fucking poon famine."
poon famine by vulvahammer October 5, 2009

Famous giant puple stuffed worm in flapjaw space 

When there was a glitch in Arsenal Gear this is all Colonel Campbell could think about.... other than scissors..... and his past life as a burrowing worm..... and VR mission 59 to infiltrate Galuade and save Meryl....
"I hear it's amazing when the famous giant purple stuffed worm in flapjaw space, with a tuning fork, does a raw blink on Hairi Kairi Rock! I need scissors!! 61!!" Colonel Campbell