Speculative Fiction

A genre of fiction that encompasses works with supernatural or futuristic elements.

The most notable genres of speculative fiction include fantasy, science fiction, horror, utopian, dystopian, alternate history, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, superhero and supernatural

The word "speculative fiction" was coined by American sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein

Speculative Fiction by Nordicdragon June 27, 2018

Speculative Grenade

When playing a game shooting game, like like the call of duty series, and throwing a grenade as far as you can in the general direction of where the enemy might be in the hope of it being especially lucky and killing someone. Ccan also be done with a tomahawk on call of duty black ops, know as a speculative tomahawk. either can be shortened to spec tommy or spec genade.

i threw a speculative grenade and got a triple kill.

Speculative Grenade by Mac1zero May 30, 2011

Speculative margin

noun

A physics engine setting that forces developers to speculate for weeks about mysterious collision bugs, when the solution was literally just setting it to 0.0 the whole time.

The amount of time you'll spend debugging phantom collisions before discovering this setting.

"Dude, I spent a month debugging microbumps in my voxel game. Turns out it was just Speculative margin. I'm never trusting physics engines again."

"My player kept bouncing on flat surfaces and I thought I was losing my mind. Classic case of Speculative margin syndrome."

Speculative margin by lewade April 12, 2026

Hetero-Speculative 

Someone who seems straight, but is actually gay.

Tyson turned out to be hetero-speculative, as I heard he was in the pride parade yesterday.

Hetero-Speculative by El ritardo June 25, 2018

only one can speculate 

It is only up to the beholder that may reveal the possibilities and illuminate the mysteries of the particular subject

yo is that a shemale or a girl?

only one can speculate...

only one can speculate by THEONEANDONLYNBA April 27, 2017

Speculatistics 

These are statistical propositions based upon fuzzy numbers, guesswork or fantasy.

The committee report was filled with speculatistics based on data from God knows where!

Speculatistics by I, Wreckerrr June 16, 2021

speculating 

Assuming something before really knowing.

People be speculating too much.

speculating by lil cc November 11, 2006