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Tracing the bowl

A game men play while going to the bathroom while standing, the objective being how many times you can draw a circle around the inside of the toilet bowl before ending your stream.
"Damn dude, you were gone a long time... is everything ok?"
"Sorry bro, those last 2 beers ran trough me so quickly that I traced the bowl 9 times"

"Randy, can you explain why there is piss on the bathroom floor again?"
"I told you, Sharon. It's called tracing the bowl and it totally a real thing. You wouldn't understand; you're not a bro"
"I want a divorce."
Tracing the bowl by longduckdong January 6, 2019
Word of the Day on January 27, 2019
Intermittent rain that's so light it's not even a drizzle. Like Los Angeles rain.

Rain that's so light it doesn't remove the dirt from your car.

1. An extremely small amount.
2. An amount so small, it's unmeasurable.
Examples:

No need for a jacket, it's just tracing out.

My car got [traced. Now I need to wash it.
tracing by diddlebugg April 8, 2009

Ray Tracing 

A computer graphics rendering technique that simulates real-world lighting by simulating light rays being emitted. The rendering starts from the camera and then outward. The result is an image with real-world lighting. This method takes a lot of processing power. It can take a long time to render a single frame on low to mid-end computers.

Ever since NVIDIA released their RTX GPUs, real-time ray tracing is possible now. This caused ray tracing to increase in popularity and is now used in some video games such as Minecraft and Quake II RTX. Due to ray tracing requiring a lot of power, this is only available for high-end GPUs (high-end GeForce or 20 series).

Ray tracing has all of the features in modern game graphics but has much more accurate and real-world like lighting:
Ambient occlusion
Godrays
High quality reflections (phong falls under this too)
High quality shadows
Soft shadows
This game looks really good with ray tracing.
I used ray tracing to render my film.
Ray Tracing by BigBoi Gaming January 16, 2020
Repeating or paraphrasing a second party’s actions, jokes, dialogue or demeanor with the singular goal of gaining or adopting the individuals characteristics.
Shiiit, she just tracing. Girl, been watchin’ season two fo six hours straight, all the sudden Eggo waffles is at the top of the grocery list.
Tracing by Getgone84 November 4, 2017
I’m not tracing, bro. I’m a Texas tech commit.
Tracing by Rickybobby6969420 January 19, 2019

contact tracing

A method of keeping tract of the contacts a person with an infectious disease has, to prevent the spread of the disease. Tracing can be used to find the original source of the disease by looking at one's contacts before they were infected, and after they were infected to see who they may have spread the disease to. Once individuals who had contacts with the disease have been identified they are tested for the disease, to stop them from disease spreading behavior till their condition has been identified. If individuals are found to be infected with the disease they continue to stop any disease spreading behavior, (e.g. isolation) and are treated, so they don't spread the disease to others.
People in charge of public health and the spreading of VD, have being using contact tracing long before those fighting the lasted pandemic used it.
contact tracing by mlhiss April 24, 2020
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pajama casual 

Pajama casual is a term used when working from home and preparing for a video conference. All business above the waist and your pajama pants down below.
We have a Zoom meeting in a few minutes and I’ll probably go pajama casual.
pajama casual by jrod-knows March 31, 2020
Word of the Day on October 14, 2026

funflation 

The recent boom in consumer spending on entertainment and experiences with a high demand running up the cost of enjoying of those experiences.
I’m trying to go to this Taylor Swift concert but the funflation has made it so impossible for me to afford tickets.
funflation by Dfree523 November 17, 2023
Word of the Day on October 13, 2026
A US deep south term for an alligator. Usually used in the Cajun dialect.
Take the big pirogue, I saw a huge swamp dog out there earlier.
swamp dog by Crystal Ambrose May 22, 2006
Word of the Day on October 12, 2026

Throat Sweats 

The feeling and build up in your mouth/throat of saliva that sometimes accompanies nausea.
Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
Throat Sweats by TacoFings420 April 23, 2024
Word of the Day on October 11, 2026
Being ignored by someone when making a statement or asking a question. Also known as blanked and turfed.
Person 1: Did u watch ** last nite?
Person 2:......
Person 3: O no u got aired!
aired by Pietro February 9, 2005
Word of the Day on October 10, 2026

piddlefart

Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
Word of the Day on October 9, 2026
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