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alteralgia 

A pain or nostalgic feeling for a life you never had or a place you never visited, real or imaginary.

Most commonly experienced when looking at scenery from a picture, a painting or a movie, but also when reading or thinking about a fictional place.

Pronounced like nostalgia
The setting of the movie 'Blade Runner' gives me alteralgia.

Thinking about the Shire from 'Lord of the Rings' makes me alteralgic.

I've never been to Japan, but the idea of being there is making me alteralgic.
alteralgia by TheLeopard November 26, 2016
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altrageous 

Used by hipsters to define something that is both alternative and outrageous.
"Dude did you hear Ed Droste is leaving Grizzly Bear to start a new project with Ke$ha and Shakira!?"
"No fucking way. That's altrageous!"
altrageous by Parisian tickler November 2, 2013

Alternageek 

A person who does not look like a stereotypical nerd/geek/brain.
Prep #1: Like, oh my gah!! Look at the geek in the Led Zep-puh-lin shirt!!!
Prep #2: Isn't he, like, the val-uh...val-uh...smartest one in the class?
Prep #3: Oh, him? He's like, an alternageek, duh!!!
All: EWW!!!
Alternageek by Alternageek #1 December 29, 2004

alternogeek 

alternative geek.
A geek that is deep into one or more subjects of study, some of them may not be traditionally associated with geek interest.
examples: a computer scientist that is also a drummer in a rock band, a librarian who is also a skydiver.

Richard is such an alternogeek, he can write programs and still sing "O Sole Mio" at a perfect pitch.
alternogeek by vruz October 25, 2007
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
stove by anthony willison March 18, 2004
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Walky-Talky 

A derogatory term for able bodied people or people that can walk. This definition was coined by disabled influencer Valerie Weber
Person in wheelchair: “look at that walky-talky over there.”

Friend in wheelchair: *looking at person who is walking* “yeah haha
Walky-Talky by odd muffin October 5, 2021
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