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Obligatory surfing 

When you are stuck in a flood or bizarre water situation and you get in a random object so that you can surf with it and survive.
Yesterday i was obligatory surfing in the waters of the tsunami.
Obligatory surfing by walt46 April 2, 2011

Obligatory Psychotic Jackass 

An Obligatory Psychotic Jackass refers to somebody who is self-elected as the rude, obnoxious and possible bully of the school. An example of this is Logan Echolls off the fictional television show “Veronica Mars”
VERONICA MARS: And let’s not forget Logan Echolls. Every school has an obligatory psychotic jackass. He’s ours.

YOU: "Oh my god! Look at that guy! He's a total obligatory psychotic jackass!"
ME: "Yeah, he acts like early season one Logan Echolls!"

Obligatory Digestive 

When you lowkey want to show your friends that you're doing something cool.
Ivar wanted to let his friends know that he was drinking and beeing all cool, but lowkey. So he uploaded a picture of a vodka bottle and a package of digestive cookies, and said that the digestive cookies were obligatory, therefore Obligatory Digestive.
Obligatory Digestive by JokerSnoker February 16, 2017

obligatory like 

When a person likes something on facebook because it was written by their friend
Hey man, did you see John's status the other day about his ex? What a pussy.

Yeah. I felt bad though, so I gave it an obligatory like.
obligatory like by jhonda555 January 20, 2012

obligatory downvote 

No matter how funny, good, intelligent or rare a video/picture/post is, there will always be someone disliking it, and if it's only for the sake of preventing a 'perfect' voting. Also, downvotes arise from jealousy, hate or any other form of secret respect.
person 1: dude check out this video, its a child doing a backflip while making pancakes on the back of an elephant.

person 2: wow thats incredible. *obligatory downvote*

person 1: i cant believe there is actually nobody that dislikes this newsfeed. well, its about a migrated disabled kid that survived cancer and the war.

person 2: *obligatory downvote*
obligatory downvote by sbstr October 14, 2011

obligatory 

ADJ. Morally or legally constraining and/or binding.

ADJ. Required by obligation.
Your attendance at school is obligatory.
obligatory by Steve Beger March 24, 2004
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

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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."
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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?"
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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
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