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greenwashing 

when companies pretend to be environmentally friendly when in fact they are not.
Both are examples of "greenwashing".

- planting a tree to clear your conscience of your new carbon emitting SUV purchase.

- Kyoto accord, the theory of emissions credits, where a country may go over their limit, but instead of dealing with the issue they just buy the unused credits off of a country that has not used all of theirs.
greenwashing by Pete @ Humber October 2, 2007
Word of the Day on October 17, 2022
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Greenwashing 

Taking superficial, PR actions to make your company or organization appealing to people concerned about the environment.
BP's greenwashing campaign to appeal to the climate change crowd has caught up with them.
Greenwashing by TartanMarine June 26, 2010

greenwashing 

The act of corporations using public relations propaganda to distract from corporate malfeasance in their environmental policy, in order to give the impression that the degraders are benign, beneficial, or caring about the environment.
Instead of addressing environmental concerns, all Exxon Incorporated did after their last oiltanker spill was a greenwashing of the issue by printing up lots of glossy advertising posters with happy children playing in the ocean, talking about the 100 birds they scrapped oil off of out of the kindness of their hearts--while completely ignoring they destroyed hundreds of square miles of oceanfront.
greenwashing by mdw January 20, 2004

greenwashing 

an attempt by companies to take their products and making them seem more biologically and/or environmentally friendly
greenwashing to me is a form of hypocrisy
greenwashing by Uncle Dimma March 20, 2021

greenwashing 

an attempt by companies to take their products and making them seem more biologically and/or environmentally friendly
greenwashing to me is a form of hypocrisy
greenwashing by Uncle Dimma October 29, 2017

Greenwashing 

Haters working hard for the first time in their life to ruin the incremental improvement to being more sustainable.
Stop greenwashing bro, it's embarrassing.
Greenwashing by Theguys2021 April 2, 2021
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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
Plate of Brown by Cheddar Craigson September 18, 2020
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Larpenomics

When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flex cash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.
Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics
Larpenomics by Rbois09 October 21, 2026
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Palmela Handerson 

Your hand that you masturbate with.
Girlfriend: What are you going to do for the next week while I'm on holiday?

Boyfriend: Have a visit from Palmela Handerson of course!
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x:"Girl your fit chewed today!"
Chewed by iod1o March 30, 2022
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Blue Movie 

A pornographic film.

The use of the word "blue" to refer to sexually explicit content was first recorded in Scotland in 1824. "Blue" meant "lewd" because prostitutes dressed in blue gowns.
I found your stash of blue movies under your bed.
Blue Movie by Shayde79 January 20, 2011
Word of the Day on October 18, 2026

fache-couture 

French slang, which translated, means "bull's fashion" but basically equates to "hyper trendy" or overly trendy. Used when a person wishes to express distaste at the latest fashion trend/fad, because it seems that everyone has a certain item of clothing or is wearing it. This term is most frequently heard in Paris but is slowly spreading to other parts of France.
1. That Burberry scarf is so fache-couture.
2. That purple American Apparel hoodie is so fache-couture.
fache-couture by bkgmh46x0x March 18, 2008
Word of the Day on October 17, 2026
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