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peacocking

Peacocking means dressing for attention. Just like Peacock's use their feathers to get a mate.
Peacocking is meant to make opening a girl easier, but if you're not congruent with your look (like, if you look like you're gay and you try to hit on a girl), wires are gonna get crossed somewhere and you're gonna blow yourself out.
peacocking by The Light September 14, 2008

moral peacocking

When a person is OUTRAGED on social media so that their friends will think they're a good person. Moral peacocks are famous for spreading fake memes because they don't actually read the news or care IRL.
If you really cared about the Middle East, you'd *know* the American news already reported that attack. Stop moral peacocking!
moral peacocking by NottaWacko July 13, 2016

Peacocking

The act of a male politician waving his tiny dick around in order to grab the attention of his orange neon god.
By filing the failed lawsuit against Vice-president Pence, Senator Josh Hawley was shaking his feathers and peacocking for the lame duck loser president.
Peacocking by Bugszy January 2, 2021

Workplace Peacocking 

When an employee tries to kiss ass with their amazing bullshit – or – bombard with non-sense repeatable quotes, to look good for management, in the work place
Jason walks into his manager’s office every day, workplace peacocking, in order to show his boss how good he is, with his great bullshit quotes.

Peacocking it

1. Strutting yourself in a peacock manner 2. being very cocky and acting as though you know it all 3. Essentially acting like a fool 4. Extensive amounts of arrogance
Worker 1: I know everything there is to this project.

Worker 2: Well if we simplified it using this method....
Worker 1: We are doing it my way.

{Mess ensues and the the workers have to clean it}

Worker 2: If you hadn't been PEACOCKING IT we wouldn't have had this mess.
Peacocking it by Critchfield April 12, 2014

Peacocking

Peacocking is the action or actions exhibited in the beginning stages of courting. These actions are typically only temporary and exist during "the chase" of a mate. Much like a male peacock displaying his fruitful colors of his feathers to capture the attention of a mate.
For example, Bob, while dating Jane, paid for dinner, brought her flowers & candy, won prizes for her. However, after confirmation of a mutual relationship (boyfriend/girlfriend) all actions taken to impress Jane are now gone. Ergo, Bob was peacocking. courting dating
Peacocking by Sammie27 November 7, 2011
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British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”

Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murderer used a serrated blade.
Boffin by Agnon February 11, 2023
Word of the Day on October 3, 2026

Pee Calculus

When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Pee Calculus by anorlondo October 1, 2026
Word of the Day on October 2, 2026
Literally "dirty" pronounced with a West Indian accent. Can also have a positive connotation, for example Sean Paul's album title "Dutty Rock".
"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

or, in a positive usage:

"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
Word of the Day on October 1, 2026
korean word for madam, older woman
Ajumma wait a moment
Ajumma by aintnotinbutnice July 5, 2009
Word of the Day on September 30, 2026

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
Slop Grenade by Joe Squid September 28, 2026
Word of the Day on September 29, 2026
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
Word of the Day on September 28, 2026
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