The antagonist in the 1962 Ken Kesey novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and in the 1975 movie of the same title. The overbearing, cruel, perfectionist nurse (ranked number 5 in AFI's list of Greatest Movie Villains) rules the asylum in the story with an iron fist.

The name "Nurse Ratched" can be applied as an insult to a person (usually a woman) of similar characteristics.

"No TV for the rest of the week and I'm coming up there to unplug the Playstation once your father gets home. You'll get worse until I see an A on your next report card" Mom said.

"Why don't you just cut my heart out, Nurse Ratched!" Timmy cried.

Nurse Ratched by Inspector Javert January 10, 2006

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Ratched

Urbanized form of the word "wretched": of poor quality; shabby or filthy in appearance; unfortunate conditions or circumstances.

Don't eat at that restaurant, it's ratched.

Have you seen her beat up weave? It's ratched!

Ratched by 1GirlieGirl November 6, 2013

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Ritchied

1) To Ritchie, is the premeditated act of pretending you want to hang out with someone when you have the ulterior motive to get them to do something for you; it is generally characterised by an outcome where the Ritchier makes a net benefit off the person Ritchied.

Lad 1: "Man, Dave invited me around for brews, so I brought a carton and when I got there he wanted me to help move his pool table... Fuck. I think I got Ritchied!?!"
Lad 2: "Yeah bro, you got Ritchied to the fucking nines!"

2) The act of delegating tasks more demanding than your own to achieve an outcome with the least effort.

Ritchie: "Okay guys, if you guys mow the lawn and I put away this salt shaker, we'll be able to start the BBQ in no time!"
Guys: "Okay!
(10 minutes later) ... fuck. Did we just get Ritchied?"

3) Ritchie-ing is also more successful whilst making oneself look busy doing other tasks (but actually not doing anything at all besides walking around quickly...)

Ritchier - in present tense, the one with the motives to, or, in past tense the one who has; pulled a Ritchie on you.

Ritchied - the victim of the Ritchie who came around with the best of intentions, to drink brews with his mate!

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Dan Rathered

Take a damaging true story and preemptively leak it to a reporter with enough bogus details stirred in to discredit the reporter and the story itself.

I can't belive Robert Richer Dan Rathered me!

Dan Rathered by smb1971 October 5, 2008

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Ratched

A term for a ugly, funky, and stupid person. Bascially means the same thing as hot mess. Or a term for a place or thing that is old and busted.

You: "Look how that bitch look today!"

Me: "Yea, that hoe stay lookin ratched!"

Or

You:"Man that girl house was dirty!"

Me:"Yea that shit was pretty ratched."

Ratched by JML18 October 22, 2009

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Surf Dracula Syndrome

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.

I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!

Surf Dracula Syndrome by AOmundson June 18, 2023

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Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.

Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.

Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026

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Plate of Brown

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.

Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?

Plate of Brown by Cheddar Craigson September 18, 2020

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Larpenomics

When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flex cash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.

Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics

Larpenomics by Rbois09 October 21, 2026

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