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Effecting 

A lazy writer's fill in for the word "affecting" with emphasis put on cause and effect.
How is Cheeto's diplomacy, or rather the lack thereof, effecting the standing of the USA in the eyes of people in other countries?

safe and effective 

unsafe and ineffective (spoken in sarcasm).
Holding your kid back with your arm in the front seat of the car, instead of a proper seatbeat or child-seat, is safe and effective.
safe and effective by imadanite September 19, 2021

It's Super Effective! 

1. Term from the Pokemon series where the move used by the opponent's Pokemon is susceptible to the user's chosen type of move.

2. Used to describe/narrate a situation when one party does a certain action which is effective against the other party.
1. Mudkip uses Water Gun on Charmander ... ... It's Super Effective!

2. Mr. Henderson uses Pop Quiz on Adam ... ... It's Super Effective!

simple but effective 

A term used by Harry styles when Louis Tomlinson answered the question how would you ask a girl to marry you? with will you marry me
Int- how would you ask a girl to marry you?

Louis- Will you marry me?

Harry- simple but effective

effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗 

1)A text sent to iPhones that will reboot the phone. Also works for any app that gives banner notifications on iPhones.
2) Sent by assholes who still think it is funny.
3) One more reason to not buy an iPhone.
Text from John: effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗
Sam: John, you're a piece of shit.

effective. Power 

Sending this message from an iPhone to another iPhone shuts it down.

effective.

Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
冗
have you heard of effective. Power?

whats that

effective.
Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
冗
effective. Power by Cobble June 2, 2015
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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.
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"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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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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After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
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