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slack-check 

Verifying the correctness of information by saying or posting something that is wrong, and having people correct you.

The people doing the correcting are typically known as "suckers."

In short, slack-checking is like fact-checking, with less work involved (except for the suckers).
1. Why bother reading about it when you can slack-check it on the internet?

2. (In a 1675 letter by Isaac Newton's lesser-known, wiser and lazier twin brother): "If I have seen further it is by slack-checking on the shoulders of Giants."
slack-check by Jamazon March 16, 2023

Checkout Stick

A term to describe someone or something as useless as a grocery checkout lane divider.
"Dont talk to Ethan, he's being an absolute checkout stick right now"
Checkout Stick by atvmike73 October 10, 2019

chucky stick

the most feared of the ancient wizard warstaffs from the year 1999 - dating back to the feared struggle between rebels (will greg ben) and the most powerful evil wizard of the era - sam. With chucky he tortured and killed many, however when the final faceoff occured near the pond of azarorth where finally the famous rebels cast the devil stick back to the watery casm from whence it came
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chucky stick

Greg the Giraffe used the chucky stick to eat his Chinese food. It was kind of gross.
chucky stick by Yo Mamma June 11, 2006

Checkout Stick

A stick used to strike vicious, unleashed dogs when they approach you on the beach.
“See this checkout stick? I’m going to use it to check your dog out of this world if you dont put it back on the leash. Yuppy.”
Checkout Stick by Lord Hobo December 30, 2021

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026