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A fictional capitalist created by Dr. Seuss in 1971 as the main antagonist. He is also included in the 1972 The Lorax 25 minute short-film and the 2012 The Lorax made by Illumination. The Onceler produced a product called Thneeds, using the tuffs (leaves) of truffula trees. Near the end of the story, he runs out of trees and is forced to close his business. He gives a small child the last truffula seed to birth a new forest. The Onceler portrayed in the 2012 film spawned a fandom of simps, which in turn caused the creation of tumblr sexyman. In this fandom, he was shipped with himself, and fan created oncelers. However, this fandom died after a few years.
The Onceler is kinda hot ngl bro
Onceler by Delighten D.N November 19, 2022
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A male character, usually in an animated children's movie or show, that fans gravitate towards to make NSFW art of. Onclers are white, skinny, usually dark haired men. The term comes from the phenomenon after the release of the CGI Lorax movie, where copious amounts of porn where drawn of the character, The Onceler.
Did you see all the porn that's getting drawn of that cartoon character??

Yeah, he's the fandom's new Onceler
onceler by Fluyolr April 25, 2019
A Onceler was a charater in the Dr Suess epic 'The Lorax'. The Oncler basically kept cutting all the trees down, using the wood for a single purpose then would cut some more trees down until there was nothing left. Sound familiar?

Therefore, a onceler is:
Someone who thinks the linear economy is ecologically sustainable.

Someone who uses single-use plastics.

Someone who does not think about how their single-use lifestyle is fucking the planet and everybody and everything on it.
Someone who feels inconvenienced by initiatives to save the environment.

Someone who is possibly a member of the world's 10 percenters as it is the top 10% of the wealthiest people on the planet who are consuming 90% of the world resources.
A onceler is a product of the capitalist society.
Please be awesome, don't be a onceler.

They are such a bunch of oncelers, driving around alone in their luxury cars when they could be using ride-share to save some of the dwindling fossil fuel resources.

I'm not going to that cafe, the owner is such a onceler, they still use styrofoam cups and don't even recycle!

I get eco-anxiety from all these oncelers. When are they going to see that the circular economy is the way forward?

Wake up you onceler, you are brainwashed by psychologically manipulative marketing ploys into thinking you need to buy stuff, just so you can keep on earning money to buy more and more stuff.
Onceler by ByED June 24, 2022

Onceler Wagon 

A big-assed, piece-of-shit, gas-guzzling SUV that should not be allowed to drive on the road.
"Look at that big, ugly Onceler Wagon! Let's egg it!"
e.g. a Hummer . . . or anything that gets under 15 mpg
Onceler Wagon by wonanee July 3, 2008

Onceler syndrome 

When a Fandom runs out of characters to ship, so they start shipping characters with alternate versions of themselves. Named after the Lorax Fandom on Tumblr, which was infamous for shipping the Onceler with himself, as most other characters in that movie were either related to the Onceler, or children.
Person 1: I love Welcome Home!
Person 2: Too bad it suffers from Onceler syndrome. So many AUs...so many goddamn versions of Wally...
Onceler syndrome by tacklezzz January 8, 2024

Onceler's Law

A fandom phenomina that states, essentially, if a given character in a work has a "good" and "evil" side or persona, the fandom will inevitably create a selfcest ship between the two. Named after the version of the Onceler from the 2012 Lorax film, which famously had a fanbase around the selfcest ship.
I saw some fanart of Simon Keyes from Ace Attorney Investigations 2 shipping him with himself. That's weird.

No, that's just Onceler's Law in action.

the onceler 

a really super hot capitalist from the lorax 2012
the onceler is so hot

i know right?
the onceler by bimbocandy March 9, 2021
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The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.
Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

Successful strivers:
- Barack Obama
- Harold Koh
Striver by URM Striver January 3, 2009
Word of the Day on August 15, 2026

SkyPesos 

Delta SkyMiles, also known as SkyPesos, is the frequent flyer program of Delta Airlines. It has a very poor value and hard to use.
- I'm trying to book an award flight to Paris, but I only have 70,000 SkyPesos
- Just forget about it, you don't have enough SkyPesos to fly anywhere.
SkyPesos by 404_name_not_found December 6, 2018
Word of the Day on August 14, 2026

Quiche Peanemis

Quirky niche peak cinema analysis
It describes the analysis of a media piece which is quirky and niche, yet peak.
Give me the quiche peanemis on the movie I missed.
Quiche Peanemis by Mushroom2241 June 17, 2026
Word of the Day on August 13, 2026

Hate Draft

1. Select a player (real or fantasy) during a sports draft to spite or anger one or more of your opponents because they had intended to select him/her.

2. Select a player (real or fantasy) during a sport draft to put one or more of your opponents at a strategic disadvantage.
1. Billy hate drafted Chad OchoCinco because he knew Sam had wanted him since he is from Cincinnati. Billy already had plenty of players to fill that position but wanted to make sure Sam didn't get him.

2. Billy hate drafted Peyton Manning because he was the only good quarterback left and he knew Sam had been planning on drafting him.
Hate Draft by pffler September 1, 2009
Word of the Day on August 12, 2026
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