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A word to describe two people who are more than friends, but due to certain circumstances cannot be dating. It is in fact not a childish word, but an educated well thought out mature word.
Walter: "Hey Brah whats going on between Maggie and Bob? Are they just friends or are they dating?"

Jo-Jo: "Nah Brah there neither, there in a lovership."
Lovership by BoBo Fett1 March 14, 2011
A relationship status where the people involved define their relationship on their own terms rather than by traditional expectations. A lovership is built on love, trust, connection, and mutual choice - not on a prescribed relationship model.
Relationship status: Lovership.
Lovership by PeacefulSkye July 28, 2026

long distance lovership 

A term to describe two people who are more than friends, but due to certain circumstances cannot be dating who have a strong emotional commitment to one another but are far away and often beyond physical access most of the time.

Benefits include being able to whine, pamper, understand, defend, help, talk, whisper, use inside jokes with each other, etc.
They bear every semblance to a real couple, except they are not one.
He and I have a long distance Lovership.

Loveship 

The magical combination of friendship and love. Can be in a relationship, platonic, between opposite sexes, or the same sex.
They loved each other so deeply, and their friendship was so solid, that what they had could only be defined as loveship.
Loveship by Kate Charlton March 25, 2009

Lonership 

Having the qualities of being a loner, by yourself and excluding yourself from a crowd.
Bob is flaunting his lonership flicking off everyone in the crowd.
Lonership by Spoondizzle March 20, 2010

Likership 

Used to describe the core group of people that 'like' your Facebook page. Just like a membership for a club, a likership describes the group of people that follow any given Facebook page described in quantitative terms often against comparable pages or businesses.
1. "Hey Jill, I must be doing something right, my likership just hit 100."

2. "We need to talk to our I.T. department about increasing our likership, our competition's Facebook page now has a larger likership than ours."
Likership by Brick Lover March 12, 2011
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Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
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NYC people who migrate north to Quahog, RI to see the leaves in the fall.
New York and everyone from there can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
leafers by ss++ February 8, 2005
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
Word of the Day on September 26, 2026
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