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A chilling hint of distance that slowly creeps into a relationship beginning to notice them laugh a little less, look away more often, and explain their mood like it’s no longer your business.
Rivener A word that is used to describe an obscure emotion
Rivener by Taji876Street January 25, 2022
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A white-haired chick with an extremely passionate and loving fanbase on an online MOBA known as league of legends. Riven players, more specifically Riven Mains are often associated with raging and negative behavior.
"Man, fuck this dumb ass pussy ass bitch ass Riven main report gg afk."
Riven by Lifesgambit January 4, 2017
Myst, Riven, and Exile rule!
Riven by Korora October 13, 2003

Rivensplaining 

The act of explaining the stats of a riven mod rather than linking it in chat and/or explaining why your riven is superior to others in the 3rd person shooter Warframe
FortunaWhen: dude, I just got a 123% multishot, 35% status chance, 90% crit chance riven from sortie!
BuffBlessingTrin: stop rivensplaining
BringBackSuperJump: mine has 124, 36, and 91.
Rivensplaining by TheRunningElite November 26, 2018

Riven Lord 

Warframe player (usually a pickle), who has a deeply unsettling love for rivens
Pickle: “hey I just got a groll on this riven”
Clan chat:” oh that pickle... he’s a proper riven Lord”
Riven Lord by Pr0m3th3us July 24, 2019

gary rivenberg 

from the greek for garinium rivinium, meaning god of the freshly mown lawn.
god that alan titchmarsh is a gary rivenberg in human form.
gary rivenberg by kayleigh March 8, 2005
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NYC people who migrate north to Quahog, RI to see the leaves in the fall.
New York and everyone from there can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
leafers by ss++ February 8, 2005
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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
Word of the Day on September 26, 2026

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
Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.
Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026
Word of the Day on September 23, 2026

murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
Word of the Day on September 22, 2026
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