When you decide to crash at a party and are either;
a) Far too drunk to find yourself a blanket to cover yourself with
b) The awkward stranger who nobody knows at the party and doesn't GET a blanket
c) The only one without a blanket.
So due to lack of blanket, you use your coat for pathetic warmth. Blanket+Coat=Clanket
Drunk Chick: Gurrrrl, I'm about tah fall asleep up in this corner on the hardwood floor, I'm too wasted to get home. You got a blanket ah can useeee?
Technology so advanced in its effects and unexplained in its function that it may as well be magic. Often used by science-fiction fans and authors to refer to technology that's used as "magic in a non-magical setting".
"The reader doesn't need to know how it works, and they understand that the author isn't going to tell them how it works. That's unimportant to the story and would bog things down with irrelevant details... All that matters is that it works and it can do what the story needs."
The "Heisenberg compensators" that make Star Trek's Transporters possible are an example of clarketech, with Gene Roddenberry's answer for how they work being "Very well, thank you".
Taken from Arthur C. Clarke's third law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
The existing stuff in the setting is already clarketech, so adding a bit more should be fine.
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*
West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.
Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!
TikTok Farlands is a term to refer to videos that you see after scrolling for a long time. These videos can potentially be disturbing, or weird. Said videos can also have low likes, or low comments.
another term for a station wagon, mini-van, or any other kind of vehicle that is targeted at the "family" demographic(also M.A.V.)
"Tactical advantages aside, the M.A.V. is top of the line for the holy warrior troop transport manufactured by the Church of Latter Day Saints Military Industrial Complex. Also great for family trips...to heathen lands."