boomerang effect

when one returns home to live with their folks after graduating college.

thanks to the boomerang effect i can't find a job or a decent place to live that is better than where I lived for 18 years before college.

boomerang effect by jonesb December 8, 2009

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Boomerang effect

Whenever a boomer does something that turns out to backfire completely.

My old boss felt the boomerang effect good the other day. He voted to remove immigrants from the country, but now there are none to wash his house.

Boomerang effect by Sløvnes November 4, 2020

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Boomerang Effect

When it's a joke or a pun and you miss the main punch line but catch it later and it hits you in the back of the head at a random time

Ohhhh I just got that joke from earlier

Sorry my minds like a boomerang effect lately

Boomerang Effect by IVESOLE February 26, 2021

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The Boomerang Effect

When a college student graduates and leaves college, only for him/her to end up living back at his/her parent's house. This is usually because after college they have to pay their tuition, loans, etc., and they're so freaking high that Bill Gates couldn't even pay it off, and the job they currently have is not enough to pay for it and an apartment.

I could have gotten an apartment but instead my parents and I suffered the boomerang effect because of my tuition and bank loans. Now I live at my parent's house.

The Boomerang Effect by Nobody here May 7, 2015

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Stealthie

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.

FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"

Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016

Word of the Day on May 25, 2026

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Summer Teeth

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.

Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...

Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012

Word of the Day on May 24, 2026

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Grindset

The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.

“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”

Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026

Word of the Day on May 23, 2026

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