gay, fag, faggot, homosexual, queer. One night on xfire (the gaming instant messenger) two astute men decided that the ~ (tilde) key is in fact the gayest key on the keyboard. So instead of calling someone a "fag" they could quickly hit the ~ key to give the same meaning. Now they came to this conclusion just by the actual physical appearance of the key, do to its curved and queer nature.
"Dude your such a ~"
"Your so ~, i heard you # your dad last night"
"~lover"
by Jeff and Adam April 3, 2007
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Tilde. The best letter ever. Used as a diacritic mark in Spanish (ã, õ, ñ).
yourmom: yo sup
linkinparkownz: nuffin
yourmom: k
Bot: OxeyeDaisy ENTERED THE CHATROOM.
OxeyeDaisy: We interrupt this program. You have been tilde'd. ~~~~~~
Bot: linkinparkownz WAS KICKED.
Bot: yourmom WAS KICKED.
OxeyeDaisy: Hehehe... ·_-
by Oxeye Daisy October 6, 2006
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Shorter form of tl;dr and used as the entire content of a forum post or comment to tell people that they are being too wordy.

This might be ~ for some people.
Jack: blah, blah, blah, long forum post.
Jill: ~
by titerati February 17, 2010
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the key that no one uses because what the fuck does it even mean
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by no one likes ben fox August 6, 2020
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When you typed a sentence and accidentally sent the message, to the receiver without it being finished the way you intended. Then you can use ~ to let people know, that you wanna cancel what you just wrote, that you didn't mean what you just typed.

Can also be if you wrote a joke, to tell it is a joke. So people won't take it seriously, so people know you don't mean what you are saying, that it's a joke.
Message to Bobby: Hey Bobby, i was wondering. Do you still have that PlayStation 3?
Johnny: Oops.
Edited message to Bobby: Hey Bobby, i was wondering. Do you still have that PlayStation 3?~
I meant PlayStation 2.

Tom: Hey John, that baseball game you bought a ticket to got cancelled.
John: What no?!?! I payed a lot of money on that crap!!
Tom: Hey it was just a joke man, relax.
John: Yea right, so that is your idea of a joke huh?

Tom: Hey John, that baseball game you bought a ticket to got cancelled.~
John: Oh it did? How unfortunate. *Says sarcastically*
by The Gentle Wyvern May 23, 2018
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