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A kid in highschool tells his teacher what he did for the weekend.

teacher: what did you do over the weekend?

kid: I went and got into a fight with my dad and beat the crap out of him, and that's how I got this black eye.

teacher: reclama. what did you really do to get that black eye.

(you use this in a professional situation when you know someone is lying)
reclama by Cruz Heimer March 11, 2009
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Canine Asshole Reclamation Project 

A poorly funded but longstanding inner city project set up to assist dogs to find their original assholes after the tragic fire that caused them to lose track of their own so long ago.
Many folks are unaware of of the important and selfless work done by the Canine Asshole Reclamation Project which seeks to reunite dogs with their rightful assholes.
To return all llamas to the area in which they came from.
Gertrude does public service every week working to rellama the local park after terrorists dellama it
Rellama by Enomoto June 5, 2015

reclaimant 

Used as adjective or adverb to describe the broad process of reclamation. As a noun, the agent of the reclaiming process. To bring back into circulation some idea, product, artefact, use, tool, etc. To restore to contemporary practice some seemingly defunct mode of doing or being. To synthesize old things into new as in infrastructures, sounds, imagery, texts. Essentially to restore value to something considered lost or antiquated. Someone who adheres to the idea that such a process holds value, utility, and relevance.
Reclaimant urbanism is the ongoing study and project to find relevance within the broken fabric of formerly integrated urban spaces.
Reclaimant poetry utilizes individual phrases and pieces of language that are intentionally designed to relay contextual value based on historical and contemporary meanings or understandings.
In practice I find myself to be a reclaimant.
reclaimant by JBlankissuper December 12, 2010

slur-reclamation 

Slur-reclamation is when a slur is Reconceptualized as an accepted or satirical word. Usually slur-reclamation is used by oppressed groups such as the LGBT community. Some examples of this may include Dyke, Gay Agenda, tranny, Queen, faggot, and many others, all vary in usage.
Homophobe: “Hey, faggot.”

Gay: “Thank You, I was really trying.”

Homophobe: What? How dare you not get offended that was my only way to diminish you.”

Gay: Hahaha, slur-reclamation goes brr”
slur-reclamation by DrAccius August 7, 2021

Play Reclamation

The intentional restoration of play as an essential human capacity for creativity, connection, learning, healing, and collective flourishing. Play Reclamation recognizes that opportunities for play are often diminished by chronic stress, trauma, rigid social expectations, discrimination, overwork, or systems that prioritize productivity over well-being.

Play Reclamation is the practice of reclaiming play as a lifelong human right and a vital aspect of individual and community health. It challenges cultural narratives that frame play as childish, unproductive, or optional, instead recognizing play as a source of imagination, experimentation, joy, resilience, and social belonging.

Play Reclamation includes creating environments where people of all ages can safely explore, create, move, rest, laugh, imagine, and connect without unnecessary judgment or pressure to perform.

For many people—including those recovering from trauma, navigating disability, embracing neurodiversity, or rebuilding community after conflict—play can become a pathway toward trust, self-expression, nervous system regulation, and renewed participation in community life.

Play Reclamation also extends beyond recreation. It includes reclaiming curiosity, improvisation, wonder, and creative exploration as essential components of education, work, civic life, environmental stewardship, and cultural transformation.
I am sooooo excited that we are living in times that honor and revere play reclamation as a sacred practice and rite of passage! This is the pathway to New Earth frequencies and supports collective liberation!

Noetic Reclamation

Noetic reclamation is the intentional restoration of authorship, provenance, meaning, and creative identity when a person experiences their intellectual or creative contributions as having been appropriated or separated from their source. Through documentation, attribution, symbolic marking, embodiment, boundary-setting, and continued creation, the creator re-establishes their relationship to the work without requiring control over another person's consciousness or property.

And a more mystical formulation:

The energetic essence is not reclaimed by chasing the copy. It is reclaimed by returning to the source.

That could make noetic reclamation a particularly strong counterpart to your concept of noetic appropriation: one describes the extraction of knowing; the other describes the process of restoring authorship, agency, lineage, and creative sovereignty.
Noetic Reclamation has been an important process and practice after leaving cult and trafficking spaces where my energy, essence and ideas were attempted to be packaged for capitalism and exploited to make money. I call and claim all of my creative enterprise, essence, energy and ideas back to me! Noetic reclamation is also about ensuring there are uniqe energetic signatures in all works every completed through time and space - if you know, you know.
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
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Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
Plate of Brown by Cheddar Craigson September 18, 2020
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Larpenomics

When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flex cash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.
Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics
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