The next step of cankles...A combination of the words "thighs," "calves," and "ankles". Used when one's legs are so non-muscular and overweight that you can't tell the difference between the three different parts. Usually a result of excessive eating, lack of exercising, or just plain bad luck.

"Damn..did you see Jenna's thicankles today in her plaid shorts? That's just wrong"
"Yeah, for real man, she should really try to work out, I don't think it's legal to have that small amount of muscle"

thicankles by Hailister May 23, 2009

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Theranos

A defunct health care corporation invented by Elizabeth Holmes that was once considered revolutionary in conducting blood tests that required only a finger-prick but there was one big problem; it was too good to be true. It was a big sham. The technology was worthless (engineers with their PhD's couldn't get the blood testing equipment to work), the tests were highly inaccurate (one example; a patient complained about ringing in her ears, Theranos test said she was at risk of having a stroke, her doctor thought something seemed off, gave her a real blood test and it turned out the symptoms were just the result of insomnia!), investors were mislead despite a boatload of red flags (Theranos never demonstrated the technology and showed them the labs. Investors just liked the cool idea of a test requiring just a drop of blood), the company was tyrannical chaos and mistreated their employees pretty harshly, etc.

Holmes and her equally scummy partner/sugar daddy Sunny Balwani have been indicted for wire fraud. Just read the book "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" by John Carreryrou if you want to get the full details. A must-read.

I'm just glad I never got sick and relied on a Theranos blood test. I might have died!

Theranos by Soul_Driver January 18, 2019

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