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Hotelling it 

The action of getting a hotel room for an extensive period of time when you were supposed to be staying with friends, in a short-term rental or similar.
Tom: "so did you get that apartment for your four-week internship?"
Marianne: "nah, I ended up hotelling it."
Hotelling it by Hotel-chick June 7, 2011
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hotelling 

An office setup in which mobile workers do not have permanent desks or cubicles and so must reserve a workspace when they come into the office.
Consultant #1: I spend so much time at customer sites that I don't need an office.

Consultant #2: Welcome to the Wild World of Hotelling!
hotelling by JRob October 26, 2005

Hostelling 

The act of meeting a stranger, taking them back to a shared hostel room and sleeping with them when other people are in the room. Variations - hostelled.
Crab: "Did you have a good weekend in Camden?"
Peter: "I met an absolute ho and indulged in some hostelling."
Crab: "I bet you hostelled her good?!"
Hostelling by MaddieClip December 14, 2009
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
stove by anthony willison March 18, 2004
Word of the Day on August 4, 2026

Walky-Talky 

A derogatory term for able bodied people or people that can walk. This definition was coined by disabled influencer Valerie Weber
Person in wheelchair: “look at that walky-talky over there.”

Friend in wheelchair: *looking at person who is walking* “yeah haha
Walky-Talky by odd muffin October 5, 2021
Word of the Day on August 3, 2026

Scrapnel 

(N) :
All pieces left over after an art project or home improvement.
"After we made the decorations for the party, there was 'scrapnel' all over the floor"
Scrapnel by IceSniper February 22, 2025
Word of the Day on August 2, 2026