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Thorpeing 

The act of attempting to save money but actually incurring more overall expense and then justifying the additional time, money, and resources spent with backward logic and citing intangible benefits.
Kevin wanted to use less natural gas to heat his new home and elected to build a wood burning fireplace. In saving an average of $4.25 a month in natural gas, he ended up Thorpeing it by wasting an entire Saturday every year driving to the woods to cut down dead trees, costing $40 in gas and another $7.50 to power the chainsaw as it spewed carbon emissions into the otherwise pristine mountain air. The chimney sweep only costs about $50 every other year and the fines for burning wood on red-burn days in the polluted valley add up, too. But hey, the whole endeavor takes him back to an earlier day and age when the world was more innocent and a man could feel good about a hard days work.
Thorpeing by n0b0undaries May 22, 2014
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When a guy or girl dates or talks frequently with somebody with severe mental issues. Especially people who are emotionally manipulative and will use their mental illness as a leverage to keep you in the relationship (e.g: “I’m going to kill myself if you dump me”). People who are therping believe that they are therapists and that they are going to magically cure or help this person, which they will of course not. If a friend is caught therping it is recommended to sit them down and calmly explain how they are being manipulated.
“Bjorn is therping so hard right now, does he really believe he’s gonna save that girls life?”
Therping by humphrey da god September 10, 2019

Thropping 

The act of eating noodles and instead of slurping it, you use your lip and tongue to throw it in your mouth, resulting in thropping your noodles.
Andrea: "Stop thropping your spaghetti, it's impolite!"
Booda: "It's easier!"
Thropping by Luciferszooted October 26, 2019
Torping is a penguin character and the official mascot of the Linux Communities. It was created on 7th of May 2017 as the relative of Tux, the original mascot created in 1996 for the Linux Kernel. The meaning of Torping can be derived from Linus Torvalds penguin. Another explanation can be Tor (anonymity network) and ping (the network utility used to test reachability)
good morning torping, that's a nice tnetennba
torping by torping June 30, 2017

Helle Thorning

A Helle Thorning:

Dave: Any ONE of these SIX FUCKING CARDS and I would have won! UnbeFUCKINGlievable! You are terrible! You should have lost! Fucking cards! FUCK YOU!"

- From Rage Quit
Helle Thorning by Kimovitzh October 4, 2011

thorping 

the act of flicking with a painful fillip from the middle finger
When I would reach across my father's dinner plate he would retaliate by thorping me.
thorping by Paul McLean October 20, 2006
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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.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
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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
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