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Facebook Archaeology 

To dig up old facebook posts by liking or commenting, flooding people's facebook spaces with posts and statuses from five years ago or older. This practice is most successful when done to posts made before facebook likes were implemented, staking the archaeologists' claim.
"Oh man, my wall is filled with embarrassing prom photos. Looks like someone did some facebook archaeology last night."
Facebook Archaeology by Forgaman December 1, 2014

archaeology

1. (What archaeology should be) You've started your archaeology course. It's the first day, you have your hat, whip and designer stuble and are ready to go and kick ass. Everything is exciting, there are always nazi scum to shoot, imprisoned children to free and artefact s to "rescue". If you are an archaeologist you can also get laid easily.

2. What archaeology is :( . You're there, on your uni course, let's say in Exeter for example. Pen in hand. Peering around the lecture theatre at various other odd looking characters that look like they should never have been allowed to leave wales , sommerset or whatever random back country they escaped from. There's hours of looking at dendrochronology, pollen diagrams, and geophysical bull shit. (That's not the good kind of pollen either :( ) Archaeology causes insanity, a strong accent and excitement over broken ceramics .

Avoid at all costs. Unless you are already displaying archaeology symptoms, then you may well enjoy.
*queue theme music* Look at him killing all those nazi's! He must have done archaeology!

This week you will be looking at carbonised grain and what it can tell us about past cultures and how they farmed.
archaeology by Real Archaeologist September 4, 2005

archaeology

The science of travelling around the world with a bullwhip and a fedora hat, ocasionally beating the everliving fuck out of some goddamn nazis!
Dr. Jones, Barnett College, New York
archaeology by Le Saboteur June 7, 2005

Biblical Archaeology 

bib-li-kuh | ahr-kee-ol-uh-jee
noun

The guy who studies, you know, places that have to do with religion, like holy sites. Mostly like spots in Jerusalem, Middle East at different parts of the world where they claim that, you know, spots of Christ and places took place, you know, events. So, he's the guy that breaks that down and tries to, you know explain things, you know, tries to, you know, locate and really do more investigations and things.
Body, please explain what Biblical Archaeology to us.
Biblical Archaeology by Ishtahal January 11, 2018

archaeology

"The science of uncovering past artifacts to analize and make inferences about the world of the past.
"In archaeology class, we uncovered a piece of Mayan pottery from a sample dig site and analyzed the Mayan culture from it.
archaeology by Sideshow Fred October 14, 2003

Canadian Archaeology 

The act of trying to dig your car out from underneath a significant amount of snow from an overnight snow dump. Clearing away the snow slowly reveals more and more of the vehicle much the same way archaeologists brush away dirt to uncover things. Usually occurs whenever you are late for something important.
Hey boss I can't come in to work today I gotta do some serious Canadian Archaeology to even find my car let alone drive it.
Canadian Archaeology by jay_P09 November 17, 2014
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British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”

Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murderer used a serrated blade.
Boffin by Agnon February 11, 2023
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Pee Calculus

When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Pee Calculus by anorlondo October 1, 2026
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Literally "dirty" pronounced with a West Indian accent. Can also have a positive connotation, for example Sean Paul's album title "Dutty Rock".
"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

or, in a positive usage:

"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
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korean word for madam, older woman
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Ajumma by aintnotinbutnice July 5, 2009
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Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
Slop Grenade by Joe Squid September 28, 2026
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