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"That kid just got scaled bruh!"
Scaled by FREEZE Ki11em May 16, 2014

scaled and icy 

twenty one pilots or Twenty One Pilots or 21pilots or tøp sixth studio album. The clikkies are waiting for it to come out may 21 2021. Some idiot leaked it 2 days before.
I CANT BELIEVE SCALED AND ICY WAS LEAKED 2 DAYS BEFORE

scaled gradient 

A nail art design created by Simply Nailogical (I think) that involves two (or three, or four) gradients on the same nail.
Person 1: That is some cool nail art!
Person 2: It's a scaled gradient with pink an purple holo nail polish!

Person 1: Wow! That is so cool!

SCALED FOREVER! 

The act of helping individuals and businesses of all sizes grow by 1) inspiring and enabling them to achieve their ambition and full potential 2) being the #1 growth driver for GCS in APAC 3) learning and having fun together
Rebecca: Wow they did it! the SEA Scaled team is now the biggest driver of our business! And look at all these impactful customer stories from the businesses that they've transformed!

Sharon: Told ya so, Rebecca! And they make it look easy - what a fun bunch!

Dom: SCALED FOREVER!

Scaled Sub Drop

A metaphor describing the collective emotional, psychological, cultural, and institutional adjustment that can occur as long-standing systems of power, identity, or social organization undergo significant transformation. Scaled Sub Drop suggests that periods of intense change may be followed by uncertainty, vulnerability, grief, exhaustion, or disorientation before new forms of stability emerge.

Scaled Sub Drop is a framework for understanding that transformative social change is rarely experienced as a continuous upward trajectory. As communities, organizations, or societies dismantle entrenched hierarchies, challenge inherited assumptions, or redistribute power, individuals and institutions may experience a temporary period of emotional, cultural, or organizational disequilibrium.

The term uses the language of sub drop metaphorically to describe collective transitions rather than individual BDSM experiences. It recognizes that letting go of familiar structures—even harmful ones—can evoke fear, grief, nostalgia, resistance, confusion, hope, and renewed creativity simultaneously.

Scaled Sub Drop does not imply that all change is beneficial or inevitable. Rather, it encourages communities to anticipate the emotional and relational work that often accompanies periods of profound transformation.
Cult Chaos and the dismantling of heirarchical and patriarchal power structures has led to scaled sub drop. Having communities of care where this is recognized and tended to is a survival strategy while power dynamics are being reorganized in the New Earth.
(noun)

a. the act of taking something that is working perfectly well and completely AND UTTERLY fucking it to the point where it becomes a brick

b. the process in which a network admin takes a perfectly good internet connection and throttles, blocks, and filters the living fuck out of it until it can’t even load a fucking webpage

c. security-theater fuckery that turns working shit into expensive garbage
"The IT department just Z-scaled the fucking Wi-Fi again"

"The network admin walked in, saw everything running smoothly, and immediately Z-scaled the shit out of it."

“I would love to review your document, but I got z-scaled bro”
z-scaled by c0zyBear March 24, 2026
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briefcake 

"Did you check out the briefcake in courtroom C?"
briefcake by Ben Frey April 6, 2006
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Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.
Ratfucker by Ricky Ramjet November 2, 2017
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countrypolitan 

Term used to describe someone who is a mix of both rural (country) and urban (metropolitan) lifestyles/upbringings. He/she is typically equally comfortable in both settings and is able to seamlessly slip back and forth between the two, appreciating the characteristics of each.
That ol' gal of mine drives the 12 lane freeway during the week and a John Deere on the weekends. She likes opra and the Grand Ol' Opry. I love them countrypolitan women.
countrypolitan by MOChick November 7, 2006
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Witch Bath 

A bath consisting of a variety of slats, oils, soaps or any other added ingredients such as fruits, milks, herbs or any other spices for health or beautifying benifits.
She brought home alot of stuff and took it to the bathroom. She must be taking a witch bath.
Witch Bath by carnieboy30 October 26, 2020
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kinktober 

An excuse for people to write porn with different types of kinks throughout the month of October.

Smut Fanfiction
That chick doesn't write often but when she does, its for Kinktober.
kinktober by Kinkiest July 12, 2018
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