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Shipping Wars 

Where a bunch of people start arguing, and wage a war over which couples in a show were meant to be canon in a webcomic, anime, tv show,ect.
I went on this chat room, and there were all these people who started arguing over Homestuck shipping. The arguement quickly became a full on shipping war, and i got involved. Darn shipping wars
Shipping Wars by T3r3z1 Pyrop3 June 22, 2013

shipping William Afton with dead/his children 

A very illegal ship from a game called FNAF
Person A: Hey what ship do you like in FNAF?
Person B: I like shipping William Afton with dead/his children
Person A: Dude thats illegal as hell

Shipping anxiety 

The feeling of waiting for a product you ordered from the internet to arrive.
Phillip, "Yo dude, I ordered some sneakers last week and I've been looking outside my window for the UPS truck the last few days. What if it got lost? What if I got scammed? What if they already dropped it off while I was gone and some thief saw the package in front of my door and stole it?"

Alex, "Bro, calm down. You just got a mad case of Shipping Anxiety."
Shipping anxiety by pipskix August 23, 2010

Same day shipping at 11:59pm

The Amazon employee has to speed run the package to your home in one minute. If they don’t succeed they are shipped to Afghanistan to be trained as ISIS members.
Me: (Orders an item on Amazon with same day shipping at 11:59pm)
Cursed Amazon worker: Fuck...

Shipping crate 

Shipping crate is an insult towards dodge trucks with cummins engine in it. The insult is that dodge trucks suck and there only good for there Cummins engines. The truck is the shipping crate and the cargo is a Cummins engine.
Person 1 “eh look it’s a stupid shipping crate”
Person 2 “what that dodge truck there bud”
Person 1 “yeah that shipping crate”
Shipping crate by Scorchedw4ffle September 27, 2019

shipping war 

A shipping war is when two or more people have an argument over a paring of most likely fictional characters. Often fan art of the ship that lets say, person A likes will be sent to person B to upset them and vis versa. Shipping wars are either to prove the others ship wrong, to get the person to abandon their ship, to start shipping the pair you do, or simply to anger someone. Usually each person will bring up cannon situations and parts of the movie/book/show/manga/anime/etc to either back up why they ship that pairing or to prove why the other ship is irrelevant. Shipping wars can be long and tedious especially if a large group is involved. If someone's OTP is involved the war will most likely be longer and will be more like a flame war. If the same character is involved but each person ships them with a different character the war will be more hate filled and canon will be used a lot. If your ship has liittle to no canon backing it up you will most likely loose. Canon is an essential in a shipping war.
Let's say two people in the Attack on Titan fandom had a shipping war

Person A shipped Levi x Eren but Person B shipped Levi x Hanji. Because the character Levi is in both ships, conflict will arise. Person B would be at a canon advantage because there is more of a history and friendship with the characters. They could all so bring up canon examples of when the characters Levi Eren didn't get along. And if all fails bring in the factor of age, Eren only 15 while Levi is 34. Person A won't have really any canon to back them up so the best they could do is resort to fanart to either annoy or get Person B to at least understand their ship.
shipping war by rai.ning February 19, 2015
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Frothability 

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Soul digger

A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
pod person by Christopher M. May 9, 2005
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A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.

A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.

A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."
dead drop by rubberroom July 23, 2008
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No Surprises Wedding

A "No Surprises Wedding," or NSW, is a wedding invitation designation that tells attendees that there can be no unplanned announcements, engagements, events or speeches at the wedding - all actions must be pre-approved by the couple. Anyone who performs an unapproved "surprise" will be asked to leave the wedding early.

This designation comes from Reddit, where so many stories of bad wedding behavior indicated a need to communicate expectations for the wedding behavior of attendees.
You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Brian and Tom on October 31 at noon.

Please note that this wedding is child-free (under 10) and a No Surprises Wedding (NSW). Reach out to wedding planner Sami Smith to request approvals or exceptions; please note that exceptions will be rare. Limited child care for under-10s will be available. All approvals will be noted and included in planning. Unapproved, or surprise exceptions, will result in guests being asked to leave.
Word of the Day on November 8, 2026
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