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Covid Level Alert (CLA), aka Chicken Little Alarm, is an overreaction to a potentially high-risk event with low (realistically no) probability of occurrence.

Such responses are typically based on emotions, thus bypassing the human brain’s logical reasoning centers.
"Whoa! Eating that could kill a nigga!"

"Stop making a CLA like a bitch!"
CLA by Logical Empiricist Stoic September 10, 2023
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Cla- (Insert Name Here) 

The word "Classic" means a recognized example of something widely known. If a friend or person you know, does something that he has done before, then its a classic. To point out the classic example then say Cla- (Then the persons name). It shows the person that he has done this a number of times and it is widely known. It can also be used to show someone that what he/she has done a bunch of times is irking them.
Rule: If the name is shorter than 4 letters, then use the whole name when noted to insert. If the name is too long, then cut the name in half, and only put the second half of the name when told to insert.

Jeremy: Wow, such a "cleremy" moment right there!
Tal: Clatal!
If the name is Rangus, then take "Cla- (Insert Name Here)" and insert "ngus". This results in the word "Clangus", which is a widely know word.
Celebrity Lookalike Alert. Abbreviation used to alert your friends to the proximity of someone who bears a resemblsnce to a celebrity. A correct guess earns you 3 points it's a giving game. Further 3 points for a combination of two features - eg hair from one celebrity, face from another. 1 point for an "acknowledgement" where the caller discloses who they perceived, and the seer subsequently agrees
CLA that woman in the blue dress by the window
CLA by MikeHove May 14, 2020
A college of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities which is the only university branch worth attending. Contrasted with the Carlson School of (I'm a prick) Management (CSOM) and the Institute of Techn00blogy (IT), the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) is populated by people who are superfantasmagorically epic (Carlson students wish they were; however they are too busy ruining the economy; IT students spend their time fantasizing about Lara Croft). Most CLA students could school you in anything pertaining to language, current events, history, and how to be "cool" because we all know those IT kids are lacking a bit of that. CSOM students only care about themselves which is just another explanation to why we have a failing economy with company heads getting golden parachutes. And School of Music.....what school? Your men need to grow a pair. CLA (Couldn't Look Awesomer :)
IT Student: "Did you see the new Star Trek?"
SoM Student: "I was practicing my riff's."
IT Student: "Oh so hows that rockin' band doing, dawg?"
CSOM Student: {observes awkwardly in the corner}
CLA Student: {contemplates cosmic intricacies of space and time} "Point proven..."
SoM Student: "Uhhh..."
CLA by Shock-ya September 10, 2009
Sounds created by using your throat and pronouncing "cla".
Yad kicked hiatus in the airsoft battle, and screamed his famous battle cry, "CLA CLA CLA!"
Cla by Big Steve May 5, 2006
Stands for Chronic Laugh Attack

Everyone has those moments when something or someone makes them laugh and they can't stop laughing for a little.
Dak showed me a picture of a guy falling over and over again, I was having a CLA.
CLA by Awesome Plate May 10, 2018
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Literally "dirty" pronounced with a West Indian accent. Can also have a positive connotation, for example Sean Paul's album title "Dutty Rock".
"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

or, in a positive usage:

"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
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korean word for madam, older woman
Ajumma wait a moment
Ajumma by aintnotinbutnice July 5, 2009
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Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
Slop Grenade by Joe Squid September 28, 2026
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Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
Word of the Day on September 28, 2026
NYC people who migrate north to Quahog, RI to see the leaves in the fall.
New York and everyone from there can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
leafers by ss++ February 8, 2005
Word of the Day on September 27, 2026

Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
Word of the Day on September 26, 2026
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