when you do something cringey, but you don't have a good excuse, so you do the only thing that'll save you.

Person 1: I like you
Person 2: lol u ugly
person 1: my cat stepped on my keyboard, sorry

A portmanteau of carpe diem, a Latin phrase that means “Seize the Day!” and DM, which stands for Direct Messages. This word means seizing the day via DMs.