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Kickstarter Syndrome 

When you are promised something amazing, and encourage/work/pay to make it happen, but are really numb to the probability that it's inevitably going to be a let down, or not come to fruition at all.
Kickstarter Syndrome defined:

Person A: Did you see the new Kickstarter for Megamanolamarama?
Person B: Yea! I'm already a $100 tier backer!
Person A: Me too! AWESOME!

- Scenario A -
Release day: Person A & B: This game... sucks! Why did we back it again?

-Scenario B-
Person A as an old man: Remember when we gave money to some people online to make something cool we could experience?

Person B as an old man: Yea we were stupid back then weren't we?

kickstarter 

Platform and website for people, including artists and filmmakers with ideas or projects to raise funds to make them happen.
I just pledged 5 bucks to Barbara's kickstarter so I could get the hand written thank you card reward!!!

Kinkstar 

1. A person who performs kinkysexual acts (e.g. BDSM, Fetish), alone or with others, in front of an audience, usually in public, while exhibiting a high degree of kinky skills.
1. He flogged and single tailed that girl straight to cloud nine. They rocked it out on stage like a couple of real kinkstars!
Kinkstar by Simon Blaise November 27, 2012

Kickstarter 

A crowd-funding website where you give money to a company, artist, filmmaker, game developer, etc. to fund their project. A project could be anything, like a game, product, album, film, etc. If you pledge enough money, you can get rewards given to you by the maker of the project. Generally, it's a website that allows people to make their projects with money from the Internet.
Did you see the new Kickstarter? The original Banjo-Kazooie developers want to make a spiritual successor!
Kickstarter by ThatPyro September 16, 2015

Lesbian kickstart

The occurrence when two females who glance at each other bond instantly with some underlying sexual expectations.
Two females who just met are scanning each others bodys with a smile on their faces and then gives a subtle dirty look.
Random present guy: "What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a classic lesbian kickstart."
Lesbian kickstart by Slurf December 29, 2012

kickstarter bombing 

The act of hitting as many social media platforms as possible to get your kickstarter campaign exposure.
'I've just spent the last 48 hours kickstarter bombing the internet for backers!'
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piddlefart

verb. To waste time doing nothing.
Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
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anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
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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.
"Hey, do you know that girl Sally?"

"Yeah, she's kind of annoying. All she ever talks about it ballet."

"Wow, what a Bunhead."

"Hey Sally, you want to hang out this weekend?"
"I can't, I have dance."
"You're such a Bunhead."

"Yeah... I know."
Bunhead by Jen00 October 24, 2014
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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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The phenomenon where adults salivate at children's toys
Every time I walk into the toy aisle, I catch myself kidulting over the latest action figures and LEGO sets!
kidulting by Emotional Cruiser October 12, 2025
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