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Parorphan 

1. A parent whose child has died. Unlike ‘widow’ (spouse) or ‘orphan’ (child), English has no word for this loss. ‘Parorphan’ fills the gap: a parent orphaned of their child.

2. By extension, a parent whose child is alive but permanently estranged, absent, or lost to them in life.
• After her son’s accident, she became a parorphan.
• He calls himself a parorphan — his daughter still walks the earth, but not with him.

Origin: From parens (Latin, “parent”) + orphanós (Greek, “bereft”). Coined 2025.
Parorphan by Shlomo Toren August 21, 2025
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Paraphanoia 

Ditching your pot-smoking paraphernalia due to a fit of weed-induced paranoia, and then deeply regretting it later.
Not realizing the cops were coming to bust his loser neighbor, not him, he tossed his favorite handblown bong out the window in a fit of paraphanoia.
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A term used to describe a parent who has lost a child. (from parent/orphan).
Tom and Liz were parphans, having lost their only child Emily to cancer.
parphan by CottonZen February 18, 2018

Prophanic 

When something is immensely preposterous and outrageous
Man that set was so prophanic
Prophanic by Tomshepard October 23, 2022

Prophanic 

Man that set was prophanic
Prophanic by Tomshepard October 23, 2022

gazorp pazorpians 

Sounds similar to gazorpians but are a totally different species. Are half human half alien, often buy human sex slaves.
Person 1: I wish i could sell you off to gazorp pazorpians as their sex slave!

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
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