To retcon a character in a work and make them represent a minority community of the creator’schoice all along, even if it wasn’t mentioned at all in the source material.
Named after the character Prof. Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series, when author JK Rowling announced that Dumbledore is gay without explicitly stating or hinting it in the source text.
Blizzard has been Dumbledoring many of their characters in Overwatch recently. First Tracer is a Lesbian and then Symmetra is an autist. Now words confirmed that Soldier 76 is gay.
The act of ret-conning a character or historical figure as being homosexual (or some other sexuality) after the fact for the sake of being inclusive or feeing included with little regard for any evidence to the contrary.
Disney has recently ret-conned Donald Duck as being trans. I’m tired of all this Dumbledoring going on.
An intense desire to die or to be killed as a means of escape from something worse than death, as seen in The Half-Blood Prince when Dumbledore screams "Kill me!" while drinking the poisoned water.
Dude, I am NEVER drinking Jim Beam straight again! I was totally Dumbledoring last night!
another term for a station wagon, mini-van, or any other kind of vehicle that is targeted at the "family" demographic(also M.A.V.)
"Tactical advantages aside, the M.A.V. is top of the line for the holy warrior troop transport manufactured by the Church of Latter Day Saints Military Industrial Complex. Also great for family trips...to heathen lands."
12 step recovery jargon referring to someone new who talks about how great life is, now that they'resober. Usually meaning that the person is out of touch with reality.
The new guy seems pretty happy for a dude who has no job, no money and no family. He must be on a pink cloud.