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Your Mother was a Hamster and your Father Smelled of Elderberries

This is the greatest insult ever uttered in the history of mankind. It has been said that if a individual says this to another, they will be succumbed to the overwhelming Dankness they have experienced. Their bones will start to get weak, they will drop to their knees and beg for mercy. BUT! They will will be no forgiveness for those whose mother is a hamster and their father smells of elderberries! They will be forced to eat the unholy Lima Soy as punishment for their grave sin.
Your Mother was a Hamster and your Father smelled of Elderberries, enough said

Playing the world's saddest song on the world's smallest violin 

A sarcastic saying used when a person tells another person of something mildly unfortunate that has happened to them, sometimes exaggerated in order to gain sympathy. It implies that the person speaking of their misfortune expects someone to come in playing the saddest song in the world on the worlds smallest violin to correspond with the apparent tradgedy of the situation. Sometimes the person saying this will mime playing a small violin, or try and imitate the sound of a violin.
Jade: Hello, how are you?
Laurel: I just stepped in dog poop and my new shoes got ruined and my feet smell like dog poop, and-
Jade: -Shh... hear that? i'm playing the world's saddest song on the world's smallest violin (mimes playing small violin)
The term for baby fallen from the popular video game Destiny 2 by Bungie.
Person 1: Did you see the season 14 trailer?
Person 2: Yeah the Smallen are super adorable!
Smallen by QwertyBored May 5, 2021
(past tense) (adverb) 1. to form a mental image with devious intent, 2. to achieve a result by taking the quickest and most impulsive path rather than the most logical and deliberate one.
Guy -

"It took a lot of spalling but I finally figured out how to rob the place."

Guy -

"So I glimped the kneecaps off the youngfella 'coz that's just the way I spalled it."
Spalled by Hawky1 July 6, 2011

Smallenfreuden 

Where Visa takes joy from seeing small businesses suffer from cashing in on the high credit card transaction fees compared to using debit. Eerily similar to the German word Schadenfreude, which is to is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
I'm going to smallenfreuden that business so hard.
Smallenfreuden by AverageJoe79 June 21, 2013

The Smalley effect 

When your podcast loses thousands of subscribers, so you jump to YouTube but only end up with a couple dozen stragglers.
David Smalley's Dogma Debate podcast jumped the shark, so he thought he'd try his hand at YouTube. Now his audience is tiny. What an armature! That's The Smalley effect in action.
The Smalley effect by mmillennial February 25, 2018
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Wife’s boyfriend: You have 5 more minutes
Me: Poggers!
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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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!
Word of the Day on October 24, 2026

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
Word of the Day on October 23, 2026

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
Word of the Day on October 22, 2026

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
Word of the Day on October 21, 2026
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