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Boomeranging 

The art of breaking up with a significant other to have a brief relationship before returning to your original partner.
My girlfriend was boomeranging with some spanish guy, but she's back with me now.
Boomeranging by Mr Craig January 11, 2014

boomeranging 

(1) verb: to send back something to a person that they originally sent to you; to return to sender
In reference to the Australian Aboriginal hunting instrument the Boomerang.
(2) verb: to quickly return something to the source
EMAIL:
(1) Receiving a file back that you originally sent to someone, where the person who sent it us unaware they got it from you:
REPLY: "hey, thanks for boomeranging me that video, it's always nice to watch things twice :)"
(2) Used for sending someone back something intentionally as part of a reply to a message.
REPLY: "Good luck with the job Interview, and I can't help boomeranging this picture back to you."
boomeranging by rydstbomel September 25, 2005

Boomeranging 

Yani is boomeranging. She can't decide what she wants to eat.
Boomeranging by CASSMONEY24 June 15, 2021

Boomeraging 

When a boomer is extremely mad
*Old lady screams at a bunch of kids playing basketball*
Kid 1: look at her, she is boomeraging LOL.
Boomeraging by TeddyE3' December 11, 2019

boomerasking 

A 21st-century way to describe a conversational faux pas as old as time. "Boomerasking" - a play on boomerang - is the habit of asking questions of your interlocutor in the naked hope of having the same question asked in return.
For instance, asking a colleague "Are you going on holiday this year?" while cueing up a lengthy monologue on your own travel plans when they inevitably ask: "And you?".
This is a Boomerasking example
boomerasking by anonymous January 29, 2025
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square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
Word of the Day on October 7, 2026
A girl who does ballet and only talks about ballet. Her schedule is filled with dance classes which does not allow her to do any other activity.
"Hey, do you know that girl Sally?"

"Yeah, she's kind of annoying. All she ever talks about it ballet."

"Wow, what a Bunhead."

"Hey Sally, you want to hang out this weekend?"
"I can't, I have dance."
"You're such a Bunhead."

"Yeah... I know."
Bunhead by Jen00 October 24, 2014
Word of the Day on October 6, 2026

trucker's tan 

A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
Word of the Day on October 5, 2026
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