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Hollywood Effect 

Using a celebrity or high profile individual to add status, glamour, or recognition to a project.

Usually advertising, a charity or a religion.
If we are gonna sell this shit to the public we need to add the Hollywood Effect.

This cult must be a real religion because it has a Hollywood actor as a member.

I'm gonna buy this product because - insert name - uses it.

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Hollywood Effect by wordupsucker March 14, 2010
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Hollywood Effect 

When the art and entertainment tainted by investors (yeah, Big Company) and governments (yeah, Big Government, RIAA, ESRB, censorship committee, whatever) who know nothing about art, so it render arts and entertainments to become a mere cash cows rather than self actualisation of the artists
Everyone around the world must grow up from their Hollywood Effect phase and learn from Japanese Art and Entertainment Industries
Hollywood Effect by Sir. B February 26, 2021

hollywood effect 

when movies change people’s perceptions of certain things, or make people believe what is, in fact, not true
i used to think jocks were all stupid, but i guess that was just the hollywood effect
hollywood effect by ughitsamelia December 14, 2020

the bollywood effect 

When one or two people dance with each other and it escalates to the whole world dancing with him/her/them in perfect sync. This effect is prevalent in Bollywood movies, hence the name.
"I saw a couple dancing to a catchy tune in the horizon and the next thing you know, I'm dancing with my friends behind the couple without any reason and nailing it on my first try!"

"That's the Bollywood effect."
the bollywood effect by Kuurei-Z January 18, 2017
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city chicken 

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006
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Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake
“Slayyyter just announced another album last night
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real
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just fokin missing her

native american reservation origin... to miss an ex so badly that everyone can see it.. can be used for either sex eg. just fokin missing her/him
friend : *noticably sad*
me : look at you all sad & shit
friend : shut up!
me : just fokin missing her huh?
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endwarfins

The rush of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides triggered specifically by watching the Seven Dwarfs march home singing "Heigh-Ho" — that particular high of pickaxes, whistling while you work, and communal domestic bliss in a cottage built for men half your height.
I only meant to watch the Heigh-Ho scene for the endwarfins, and then it was two hours later and I'd watched the whole movie.

Endwarfins aren't just a Snow White thing — I get the same hit off the Lollipop Guild in Oz.
endwarfins by Howard Ogden September 13, 2026
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