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paperless work 

Bureaucratic work of the new era that does not involve paper, as opposed to paperwork, popular before invention of the paperless office.

First used in Futurama in the episode about the movie Minority Report.
From Futurama:
“Ain’t you headin’ home, Phil?”

“In a minute. I just wanna finish this paperless work.” – Fry

I've outsourced the data entry to oDesk, because it is such a tedious paperless work.
paperless work by bugpower December 15, 2011

Paperless Woodsman 

Aka - Classy Woodsman

The act of utilizing one hand holding a bottle,can or other container to pour water down one's own butt crack while using the other hand to cleanse fecal debris from anus.
While camping this weekend , we ran out of toilet paper and had to pull a Paperless Woodsman to do business.
Paperless Woodsman by Cmjjax April 22, 2017

Paperless Debate 

CX debate, or policy debate that has transferred to laptops instead of tubfulls of paper. while it might be convenient, it totally undermines the originality and spirit of cx debate because as of now, most teams haven't totally gone paperless, which makes viewing evidence hard if you don't have a laptop and they can't flash evidence to you
I wish cx isn't transferring to paperless debate. Tubs all the way

Paperless-atization 

In competitive policy debate, paperless-atization means to take your old paper debate files and scan and format them such that they can be used in paperless debate.
Debate Coach: "So have you guys done all of your reformatting so that we can switch to paperless next year?"
Debaters: "Oh no, but we'll do all of our paperless-atization this week."

Paperwaste 

When you accidentally walk out of the bathroom with toilet paper hanging out of your ass
Hey dude! Did you see that girl paperwaste?
Paperwaste by birblady January 21, 2018

death by a thousand papercuts 

when something has so many issues that would be minor on their own that it becomes terrible.
Guy: So, whats wrong with it?
IT Guy: Man, this PC has so many damn bugs. It's a death by a thousand papercuts type deal.
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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.
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Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
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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
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
Word of the Day on September 25, 2026
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