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Autistic Self Advocacy Network 

An autism organization that promotes respect and acceptance toward autistic individuals. In contrast to many other autism organizations, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) motivates autistic people to freely express themselves in their own unique ways instead of forcing them to conform with the rest of society. This is the website to go to if you want to support the autistic community in ways that are actually meaningful.
I go to the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) to help out the autistic community. They actually care about autistic people and view autism as a unique condition instead of a disease.

Autocracy 

A political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual.
Going against wise intelligence, the president has himself led the country into war, placing our country into a TEMPORARY state of autocracy, him being the autocrat. This decision will cost American tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars.
Autocracy by Dlerell April 7, 2008

ad-hocracy 

A collective style democracy that is used as a means of control for a a place or a group of people. A participatory democracy much closer to the original Greek style than represenative democracy. Used by Sci-fi author Cory Doctorow to describe a system of government by people.
The university ad-hocracy decided on whether to inplement major changes to the cirruculm.
ad-hocracy by romp March 21, 2004

apocracy 

The process of changing something so much that it loses it original meaning.
The apocracy of religious doctrine has created confusions among the faithful.
apocracy by QDeadDrop October 10, 2018

audiocracy

au·di·o·cra·cy
1. A situation where one person has uncontrolled or unlimited rule over song selection throughout an entire event; the power... the advantage.
2. an automobile, or party, being ruled by an audiocrat.
3. Unlimited authority, control, or influence of stereo volume, audio levels and choice of tunes.
Drunk indie dude: Would you mind if I play some of this? You have to hear this b-side. It's a totally rare euro import from some guys grandparent's attic. Apparently they only released ten copies on yoyo records before getting signed to dodo.

Audiocrat: Yeah, I'm not really to into them. Have you ever heard of these guys? Dude, just listen... Just give it a chance and you'll never be the same. Who wants a beer?

Drunk indie dude: Damn, what's up with the audiocracy?

audiocracy by Ghost_07302 January 1, 2008

Hong kong autocracy 

It's a joke. Hong kong is now run by dictatorship, namely CCP. Police are overpowered.
Carrie Lam: hey Xi, wanna hear a joke?
Xi: yeah
Carrie Lam: wanna have some hong kong autocracy for lunch ? hong kong is a free country ;)
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
Word of the Day on September 26, 2026

You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
Word of the Day on September 25, 2026
Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
Word of the Day on September 24, 2026
A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.
Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026
Word of the Day on September 23, 2026

murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
Word of the Day on September 22, 2026
In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.

Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."
Whale by FQ_GFY February 3, 2020
Word of the Day on September 21, 2026
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