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Japanese term meaning: "death from overwork."
Karoshi has become an important social problem in Japan, where salarymen willingly work such long hours that their state of health plummets
Karoshi by ducky31 August 15, 2009
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kartoshka 

i love you my kartoshka

potato
kartoshka by kartoshka December 31, 2008
Death caused by too much hard over-working. This term is from Japanese. Korean and Japanese has this word that can be written in chinese character. Karosi is consisted of 3 chinese character which means over, work and death. If a person's death is identified as karosi, his or her family gets financial help from company or insurance.
Jack : What is the cause his death?
Susan : It's karosi.
Jack : In US, people don't acknowledge karosi.
Susan : Well, it's japanese company. So,...
Jack : Good for his family. As a friend of his, I am glad to hear that.
karosi by choonmann November 13, 2005

karooskurk 

Afrikaans word : A person that rapes a blind and mute person, and breaks their fingers afterwards so that the blind / mute person cannot testify in court using sign language.
That karooskurk deserves the death penalty.
karooskurk by Mojay187 October 14, 2016

Karcashingin

(Kar-cashing-in)
A derogatory term referring to the act of self enrichment through instigating a decilne in social values, in particular Victorian-era conservative values.

It is a reference to Kim Kardashian's personal wealth creation off the back of her "leaked" sex tape, self-indulgence displayed in her reality TV show and, and profiteering from her over-hyped short term marriage to Kris Humpries.
Through its marketing as a hookup app, the creators of Tinder have been Karcashingin on society.
Karcashingin by 6283648 January 11, 2015
A loving amazing guy, can be really mean and harsh, rude, narcissistic but is nice and kind on the down low
he cares for his family and friends more than anythingelse, often has blue or green eyes. Most of the time is really insecure but refuses to show it. an all around good guy
Karlos... no sentence required. Do not mistake for Carlos
Karlos by ~S.Anonymous June 12, 2018