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Low-battery measures 

When your cellphone battery runs low, you have to take take low-battery measures such as reducing brightness, closing applications or maybe even switching on airplane mode.
A: "Why is your screen so dark? Do you even see something?"
B: "I'm running low on battery, I have to take low-battery measures to make it through the day."
Low-battery measures by Peter324 December 12, 2013

Subversive Measures

Subversive Measures - Refers to certain tactics or methods which are implemented or carried out either overtly or covertly or both so to achieve a political objective or intent. Such measures are no limited explicitly to political application only, but rather they can also be applied in a Social context and can be an important tool or element of Social engineering.
Subversive Measures, can be compared with the overt and covert methods utilised during the former Soviet Union in relation with implementing Censorship, a process which had been used in both political and social capacities and had been contrived by Leon Trotsky ( Preventative Censorship) and was enforced by the Glavlit agency.

no half measures 

No half measures refers to killing all assholes while you still can
Walt , after that guy killed his wife, I can only tell you , no half measures
no half measures by Pinkdude July 31, 2019

drastic measures 

When one person is so angry at another that they announce "drastic measures" will take place. Ensuring that the actually act of drastic measurement is vague as to leave the victim confused and bewildered.
Laura proclaimed "drastic measures" will take place after skillfully spotting a girls pink backpack in the background of Dave's picture.
drastic measures by Babar&Geigers November 22, 2009

Draconian measures 

Another way of saying reptilians are measuring people's patience and tolerance for their bullshit social experiment.
The Draconian measures were in effect.

Meluress -_- 

a good (great) ship name made with Ness and Melora their son has this name too
Meluress -_-:i have brother
Ness:yes
Drake -_-:NOO NO NO SHIPPING NESS AND MELORA SHES MINE
Ness:since when?
Drake -_-:....uhh........never?
Ness -_-:what i thought
Melora -_-:yes you have brother Meluress -_-
Meluress -_- by By Swag Yoshi April 21, 2021
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
Word of the Day on September 25, 2026
Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
Word of the Day on September 24, 2026
A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.
Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026
Word of the Day on September 23, 2026

murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
Word of the Day on September 22, 2026
In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.

Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."
Whale by FQ_GFY February 3, 2020
Word of the Day on September 21, 2026

Concrete cowboy 

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.
Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
Word of the Day on September 20, 2026
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