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someone who is perceived as avoiding someone or questions, but actually is answering or being preset in a truthful manner. I.E. someone misunderstood
"You're an avoider! You always avoid my questions!" "No, I answered your question, you just didn't like the answer"
avoider by mailgoogle January 20, 2022
Words you can keep
A person who does everything within their power to avoid taking accountability for their life and decisions. They'll expect their lives to improve magically through no effort of their own, have an acute and outspoken sense of toxic entitlement, and blame circumstances out of their control, society, or mental health, for their bad fortune while actively avoiding all actions that would lead them to betterment. The typical avoider will live with someone vulnerable to their alleged plight and leech off them, creating a manipulative, abusive and/or at least parasitic relationship that loops each time a solution is suggested.

Avoiders become aggressive when advice is given to them, no matter how convenient or simple, as anyone with a differing view or options is painted as not trying to understand them but causing more stress instead. This is done as a shield, and often recalled for the express purpose of acting out a guilt trip. As they often have no real income they may be found begging and manipulating their friends for money, then bragging about how well they're doing, until the funds run out. Avoiders are unwilling to change and should, in turn, be avoided themselves.
Avoider: "I'm so depressed. Nothing is working out for me."
Friend: "We had a 6 hour talk with a recruiter willing to set you u-"
Avoider: "Wow I can't believe I'm in such a state and all you can think about is work. Whatever. Bye.."
Avoider by Shishitron1000 March 11, 2023

Barrel Avoider 

Some fucking kook that surfs your waves and does not pull into the tube!!!!!
Ha Barrel Avoider, WTF gotta pull in......Split.....

When surfing and avoiding the Tube......
Barrel Avoider by I am Bernie June 9, 2009

Conflict Avoider 

Somebody, (typically a female, but in rare cases a "homophobe" male) who is so terrified of conflict and desiring of consensus, that they can't say anything that might result in someone thinking negatively about them. Their fear of saying “no” regardless of the truth results in a “life in the closet” and the constant stress of whether they should venture out or continue to live with the internal unrest. Conflict avoiders often times seek a weekly haven, typically religious but occasionally male bonding activities, where they don’t have worry that they might lose a vote if they say something insensitive.
Rick: “Hey Jeff, I don’t feel like spending my own money on tickets to the game – can I have yours?”

Jeff: “Oh sure Rick, you can have one of mine and don’t worry about the money, I’m sure you’re good for $1000 and will pay me back when you can”.

Rick: “Yeah, sure, call the office, and I said I wanted “tickets” as in 4, you dipshit”.

Jeff: “No problem Rick, I really didn’t want to go anyway and my wife would really enjoy me spending the day at home”.

Rick: "what a pussy that "conflict avoider" is. The dipshit just gave me 4 tickets to the game and he can get in line behind the other dummies I'm never paying back."
Conflict Avoider by majord01 October 15, 2009

Salad Avoider

Someone who is so morbidly obese with no intent of changing, that they do everything in their power to avoid losing weight, including eating salads.
Person 1: Hey, do you see that Salad Avoider over there?
Person 2: Yeah, he has more chins than Chinatown.

Organizing Avoider 

One who uses organizational tasks as an excuse for not hanging out with in-laws and friends.
Is your wife coming to the beach for Labor Day? No. She just came back from container store, so she’ll be working on arranging and sorting every item in our house this weekend. She’s an organizing avoider.
Organizing Avoider by Aceholes Live! September 2, 2022

plague avoider

A person who tries to avoid getting or spreading SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19 and Long Covid/PASC) through methods like improving ventilation, using HEPA filters, wearing respirators, keeping up to date on wastewater data and case numbers to decide whether to increase or decrease precautions, and self-testing. Being a plague avoider is also known as being covid conscious, or CC for short. In the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, avoiding the plague was perfectly normal, but plague avoiders are now in the minority and are often harassed or mocked for the precautions they take.
I'm the only plague avoider at work and I'm the only one who hasn't had to call in sick lately, but my boss doesn't seem to understand how those things are related, so he keeps trying to get me to stop wearing a mask.
plague avoider by ultravio_c July 1, 2026
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Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026

Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026

age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 27, 2026

board chow 

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007
Word of the Day on August 26, 2026
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