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execusplain 

Very similar to mansplaining where an executive delivers a completely inaccurate description of a topic, with complete confidence that he or she's right. The big problem with execusplaining is that the executive is delivering the nonsense to subordinates, they are loath to disagree for fear of getting fired.
Even though most of his team had already worked at high-tech startups, the VP felt the need to execusplain how startups build products.
execusplain by bgreenie March 18, 2015
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Execsplain

When an executive authoritatively explains basic concepts to non-executives to mask the absence of proficiency in their job. Often delivered in a condescending way, so as to provoke an emotional response, thereby shifting blame to the audience, further obfuscating their lack of qualifications.
Did you hear the CMO execsplain Github to those engineers? I wonder if they have any work to do?

Excuseplaination 

An explanation which is simultaneously being used as an alibi, which although it is valid was not necessary to say as an explanation for any reason other than as an excuse.
"That's a crappy excuseplaination bro."

Excusplanation

When you're asking someone for an explanation but all they ever give you is excuses.
Boyfriend : look, can we please just talk about what happened later?

Girlfriend: Yes, and I can't wait to hear your excusplanation about it.

Boyfriend : what's wrong? Why are you mad? What did I do wrong?
Girlfriend : everything! Please explain this <insert whatever made you mad here> to me!
Boyfriend: it wasn't me! I didn't do it! I don't know how it happened! I would never do that! I wouldn't lie! Please believe me even though I can't explain anything ever at anytime nor do I have to because I'm innocent!

Girlfriend: of course, i should have known. More empty excusplanations.

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

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
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