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Balikbayan box 

A cardboard box containing items brought by, or sent by, a Filipino that is going back to the Philippines from a foreign country. Balikbayan boxes vary. They can contain personal items, canned goods, food items, toys, toiletries, household/kitchen accessories, electronics, designer clothing, or items that are hard to find in the Philippines.
When going home to the Philippines, you must send a Balikbayan box!

The Filipinos standing in line at the airport had Balikbayan boxes with them.
Balikbayan box by pinaygal December 9, 2008
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Balikbayan Box 

A cardboard box containing items brought by, or sent by, a Filipino that is going back to the Philippines from a foreign country. Balikbayan boxes vary. They can contain personal items, canned goods, food items, toys, toiletries, household/kitchen accessories, electronics, designer clothing, or items that are hard to find in the Philippines.
The Filipinos standing in line at the airport had Balikbayan boxes with them.

When going home to the Philippines, you must send a Balikbayan box!
Balikbayan Box by Pinay123 December 25, 2008

breatharian 

One whos diet consists of air, light, and prana, with a possible sip of water now and then.
The breatharian has air, light, and prana for food.
breatharian by leena gabor November 8, 2005
Word of the Day on June 3, 2026

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026