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I confirm the word was in common circulation amongst Bluebell Railway enthusiasts in the employ of Southdown Motor Services(a major Sussex/Hampshire bus company)at its Brighton Head Office in the late 1970s. These persons subsequently organised a transport "event" (held at Hove Town Hall)named "Gricerama" - so the origin propounded above may well be correct
The bus station was impeded by the usual crowd of camera-hung gricers
gricer by D C White September 16, 2008
Words you can keep
A trainspotter, someone who braves rainy and windy station platforms to catch a glimpse of unusual trains. An unproved etymology holds that this word comes from a humorous pronunciation of “grouse”, making the connection between the supposed resemblance of trainspotting to grouse-shooting. The verb grice and the participle gricing are back-formations from gricer. This is from the website for Times Online and is my sense for the word as it is currently used. I would drop the word 'unusual' as a more generic definition would focus on fascination with trains as evidenced by gricing, i.e. wandering about the planet to see, ride, and photograph them.

Several gricers were oohing and aahing with big grins as the heavy Chinese steam locomotive roared by in high dudgeon with a long line of ore cars in tow.
Person who enthusiastically collects numbers of traction engines or railway locomotives.
The gricer went enthusiastically round the rally ground collecting every number he could.
gricer by NZ Railfan March 17, 2003
The word was first coined in about 1970 at the Bluebell Railway when a group of hard-core railway enthusiasts arrived one cold December afternoon to look around. In a removals van with the company name G.Ricer on the side.
It has since moved on in certain circles to apply to fans of other forms of transport eg Busses
gricers love anything to do with railways
gricer by Ditch Boultbee December 23, 2004
(noun) A mechanical device used by professional dominatrices to simulate castration in lonely incels who love trams. See also kitchen mincer, weed whacker and gunzel muncher.
After a heavy session of steam branding and charcoal enemas, Whayne's mistress uncovered an industrial strength gricer and proceded to flay his taint.
Gricer by Thomas the Tanked Engine February 15, 2022

Grocery-Sticked 

The often unneccessary act of someone placing the plastic divider on a grocery store conveyor belt to seperate their items from yours. Can be used as a metaphor for other situations.
Person 1: “Did you really just grocery-stick me? I have $100 worth of food and your only items are a candy bar and a tv.”
Person 2: “....Uh, I just didn’t want them to get mixed up.”
Person 1: “Never in the history of the world has anyone switched items with another person using a grocery stick because they would still have to pay for it.”

Steve: “Hey man, did you go home with that hot blonde last night?!
Kevin: “Nah man, I got grocery-sticked by her fat friend.”

Stacy: “Did you get Taylor Swift’s autograph?!
Monica: “Fuck no! I got up close when she got out of her limo but got grocery-sticked by three security guards!”
Stacy: “.....sounds hot”
Monica: “No, look it up on urban dictionary .”
Grocery-Sticked by But Sects December 11, 2019

In Grocery We Trust 

The Korean actors and co-stars Son Ye Jin and Hyun Bin (aka BinJin) were photographed grocery shopping together in LA (not in their home country). Though they deny that they are dating, BinJin shippers use this as evidence they really are dating -In Grocery We Trust
Friend: There's no way BinJin is dating!
Me: In grocery we trust!
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Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026
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