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South East Pennsylvania slang for pissed off, irritable, and having a problem with everything and everyone. If someone is acting gressive, they'll be on edge and likely pop off really easy. Usually comes from being humiliated, embarrassed, judged, or just from a shitty day.

Originated from the word 'aggressive'
Jay got schooled by Jim yesterday so he's been acting all gressive.
Gressive by KUKT February 13, 2015
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A gressive is a small, troll like animal that sometimes will take over a persons body. When a gressive takes over the host will be likely to attack, hate yoga, become irratated, and most commen...become aggressive.
Me: "Hey Carmella you're being kinda aggressive lately."
Carmella: "I know I was overtaken by a gressive."
Slang, somebody with a progressive slant in politics.
TYT are gressives.
gressive by RoundenBrown August 3, 2021

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