A unique marketing predicament where a particular brand of a product becomes so common or dominant, its brand name becomes the generic term for the entire product category. Examples include Kleenex, Vaseline, Xerox, Windex and WD-40. Some trademarks have actually lost their legal protection in the U.S, including Aspirin, Thermos and zipper.
#1: "Hand me a Kleenex, would you please? I'm all stuffed up."
#2: "These are Puffs. Shouldn't you say 'facial tissue'?"
#1: "I just say Kleenex for all of them. The brand has committed genericide. Now just give me the damn Kleenex already, my nose is dripping!"
A person, typically an SJW, who places great importance on gender identity to the point where they believe it’s the only thing that identifies and validates them. They appear to want nothing more than to be viewed as normal and yet do everything they can to try to stand out at the same time for the sake of getting attention or special treatment.
They are usually seen in the comments section demonizing anyone who refuses to remember every gender pronoun in existence and telling anyone who outrightly refuses to believe in the notion of there being separate genders outside of male and female what horrible people they are.
Not to be confused with a transtrender.
Person 1: "Dude, the other day, I asked this random chick for the time and she literally started screeching at me about how bigoted I am for assuming her gender, even though she admitted to identifying as a girl with she and her pronouns.”
Person 2: "Wow, didn't think you'd run into a Genderite outside the internet."
The replacement of redhead/ginger actors/characters in media, be it film, animation or television, with black actors/characters in an attempt to be woke, despite gingers making up 1% of the human population
Mary Jane, Ariel, Iris West, it's like there's a gingercide going on in hollywood!
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
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.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.