A cultural shorthand, often humorous, catchy, or jargonistic, that simplifies or stylises a more complex or abstract concept, making it more memorable and widely accepted in common discourse.
"The funnyword for performing quality assurance by bombarding software with random inputs - akin to a crazed chimp pounding on a keyboard to see what happens - is monkey testing."
"It's this big abstract *thing* that no-one understands, incredibly complex infrastructure that stores your files so you can access them from anywhere - but anyway the funnyword for all that is the cloud. "
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.