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Failure Cascade 

Failure cascade is the inverse of a network effect. Websites like MySpace define their value by the people that use the service just as gaming communities define their quality by their members. As bad events cause users or players to leave or become inactive, the quality drop leads others to do the same in a spiral that rarely stabilizes, until no one is left.
Their leaders don't even want to log on anymore, they're in failure cascade.
Failure Cascade by Jafit June 12, 2010
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failure cascade 

The inevitable demise of a group due to a growing amount of errors. EVE Online coporations use this term to describe other corporations as they come to an end.
Lets all watch Band of Brothers failure cascade.

Cascade Failure 

Damn, that mixed kebab last night was really good. I nearly did a cascade failure.

breatharian 

One whos diet consists of air, light, and prana, with a possible sip of water now and then.
The breatharian has air, light, and prana for food.
breatharian by leena gabor November 8, 2005
Word of the Day on June 3, 2026

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026