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The Hemingway (Or The Heming Way)

Noun: A word to describe the action of shooting oneself with a shotgun, inherently ending his or her life, in order to escape life's pressures; named for Ernest Hemingway, who did the very same thing.
"Dude, you got an "F" on your English test? Dang, you should totally go The Hemingway (Or The Heming Way).

Doing the Hemingway 

Getting drunk, banging two or three girls and then writing a small novel til the sun goes down...or comes up.
"Doing the Hemingway to-night."

"Shit! I'll bring condoms and my sister."

"See you at 7 then."
Doing the Hemingway by Jim Witness September 5, 2010

Lupin The III: The Hemingway Papersu

Lupin The III: The Hemingway Papersu
Lupin The III: The Hemingway Papersu

The Heming-way 

To blast one's head off with a shotgun, similar to the author Ernest Hemingway's preferred choice of suicide.
John's girlfriend broke up with him. Rather than move on like any normal person would do, he decided he couldn't live anymore without her and went the Heming-way.
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026

Nerd neck 

A "human" that spends so much time playing video games that their posture is level nerd neck. Everytime anyone goes tryhard they hunch down and their neck gets longer there fore a nerd neck is always hunched down cause they're always going try hard. In other words a nerd neck is a try hard, since their neck is 100% longer than the average human being due to playing too many video games and taking them serious, nerd necks are not even considered human anymore but something more sad. Nerd necks are often found on fortnite, their natural habitat usually being tilted towers.
What a fucking nerd neck!

He is building so fast, nerd neck!

Looser more like a nerd neck ha!
Nerd neck by D Sandwich Maker February 5, 2019
Word of the Day on June 25, 2026