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cartouch 

Noun: A project that sounds really good but can't do some of the functionality you claim it does

Verb: The act of making a project look and sound really good but it doesn't actually work
Your project was a cartouch.

I cartouched my hackathon project, it was supposed to be able to unlock a car from a thumbprint but it actually can't do jack shit.
cartouch by New Gamer March 10, 2019
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Cartouch 

(Verb): When you create a hackathon project with a really good user interface/frontend, but with barely any backend at all in order to hide the uselessness of your project. This term originated when an app called Cartouch, which supposedly unlocks your car with your fingerprint but actually only creates a message box that says "your car has been unlocked", won first place at a hackathon, beating out much cooler machine learning projects.
He cartouched his app and still won 1st place, even though it had a copy pasted template GUI and just one if statement.
Cartouch by Bango Pope March 10, 2019

cartouche bag

someone who peppers their posts with ‘happy faces’ and other emoticons, attempting to make lame messages seem meaningful
I used to include heart symbols and smilies in texts, ‘til someone called me a cartouche bag. )~:

douche cartouche 

A tattoo on the lower back of a male, similar to a "tramp stamp" on a female.
They were a perfect match as they walked away, their jeans riding low to reveal her tramp stamp and his douche cartouche.
douche cartouche by Braincase January 15, 2010

cartouche bag

a term coined by Stephen Colbert

cartouche bag- a mega douche bag; old douche bag; egyptian douche bag
Stephen Colbert- Were they always cartouche boxes, or were there also cartouche bags?
cartouche bag by Spicy Charles December 10, 2010

Cartucho (Spanish) 

Cartucho (Spanish) by Lehem October 18, 2003
The act of ejaculating on your partners forehead and leaving an imprint of your penis in the puddle of semen. (Like a wax seal on a letter)
After having sex with Becky last night, I took a picture of my cartouche for proof.
Cartouche by SexGuru September 1, 2014
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Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026

Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026

age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 27, 2026

board chow 

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007
Word of the Day on August 26, 2026
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