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enshittification 

noun. Rendering something that was previously okay or even positive into a steaming pile of shit. verb: to enshittify. past participle: enshittified
Jimmy Carter's decline serves to underline the enshittification of US politics since Reagan.
enshittification by MPgh February 20, 2023
Word of the Day on July 7, 2023

Enshittification 

The process that a company undergoes once it has either become a Monopoly (i.e Google, Microsoft, etc) but still wants to continuously impress/attract investors, so they go as far as to nickle & dime, scrub for any relevant data for potential buyers, and then create inconvenience within the service itself and sell the solution to said inconvenience. just to get as much money from their consumers to make their actual "customers" (the investors) happy.
"Google must've been real busy enshittifying their services as of late. That was 2 back to back unskippable YouTube ads. Time to get an adblocker"
"PlayStation Plus has jumped prices like 5 times this console generation! What the hell they smoking? Enshittification pack?"

Enshittification 

The pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initial high-quality products or services exist to attract users, these products are eventually degraded to serve business customers better, and ultimately reduced to solely to line shareholders pockets with no intent to

for the users' best interest.
Mod Pips took a game design masterclass on enshittification. First. he would gradually raise the price of membership and get users to combine their characters to one account. Then he would charge an ad version at the cheaper, original price and also force users to pay more for each additional account they own.

Timmy: "Wow, Mod Pips sure knows how to implement enshittification in game design!"
Ricky: "Yeah, I heard he did such a great job strangling the last game, that they promoted him all the way to CEO!"
Enshittification by PosteyPete2277 January 18, 2025

Enshittification 

The pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initial high-quality products or services exist to attract users, these products are eventually degraded to serve business customers better, and ultimately reduced to solely to line shareholders pockets with no intent to

for the users' best interest.
Mod Pips took a game design masterclass on enshittification. First. he would gradually raise the price of membership and get users to combine their characters to one account. Then he would charge an ad version at the cheaper, original price and also force users to pay more for each additional account they own.

Timmy: "Wow, Mod Pips sure knows how to implement enshittification in game design!"
Ricky: "Yeah, I heard he did such a great job strangling the last game, that they promoted him all the way to CEO!"
Enshittification by PosteyPete2277 January 18, 2025

enshittification 

A word first coined by author and journalist Cory Doctorow that describes the process by which thriving online platforms decay as they prioritize profits over user experience.
Ever since that popular social media site started flooding users with ads and reducing features, it’s clearly gone through enshittification.
enshittification by Emotional Cruiser September 20, 2025

ENSHITTIFICATION

Continuing on the path of "everything's fucked and everybody sucks"
Every morning as I rise out of bed, I ponder how much worse the enshittification has gotten since yesterday.
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square grouper

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.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
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A girl who does ballet and only talks about ballet. Her schedule is filled with dance classes which does not allow her to do any other activity.
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"Yeah, she's kind of annoying. All she ever talks about it ballet."

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"Yeah... I know."
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trucker's tan 

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.
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Every time I walk into the toy aisle, I catch myself kidulting over the latest action figures and LEGO sets!
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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.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murderer used a serrated blade.
Boffin by Agnon February 11, 2023
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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.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Pee Calculus by anorlondo October 1, 2026
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