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Failure has been discovered to have electromagnetic properties of its own, dubbed failwaves by top scientists in the field of failology. These failwaves often cause objects or people in the vicinity to break or malfunction, and are the reason why you never want to say "It can't possibly get any worse". Failwaves can be measured in SNAFU units, often called a "sna-u".

Used more colloquially to describe anything failure prone, failwaves describe how sucky something is.
I can tell just by looking at it that this restaurant's failwaves are off the charts.

The review I read said it measured at 33 sna-us. The waitstaff couldn't get anything right until the fifth try.
Failwave by VMK April 18, 2008
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Failware 

Any software trying to perform what French Hadopi law asks everybody : internet censorship
- What was Hadopi-web-filter ?

- That was even more a failware than "Contrôle de téléchargement" by Orange ISP
Failware by kajkaj June 21, 2010
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Failware 

Windows, as well as other software that fails to deliver anything useful to its users.
God damn it Windows sucks ass, I'm sick of this failware
Failware by Darklink255 August 24, 2008

failwaves 

Attempting to say goodbye and failing as a quick departure is made.

Missing the chance to say goodbye to someone leaving, usually witnessed by others who will tease and taunt you for it.
CyAdora failwaves at her friend who left the chatroom in a hurry. Then was made fun of for 5 minutes for being slow.

I watched my bf sitting on the bus and was waving goodbye. As I turned around I realized he missed my full moon failwave. The old man sitting next to him had a big smile as I looked back.

After I got home from the concert, I checked my mobile to see all of my friends had failwaved to me before I left.
failwaves by CyAdora September 18, 2009

Failcave 

A term you use when a person fails and you would like them to go away and leave you alone.
Go back to your failcave
Failcave by johhny1232211 April 9, 2009

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
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Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
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