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Don't hate the game, hate the playa 

When a guy gives up on a girl because she's banging someone else
Lalo: I could have had her.
Max: Bro, don't hate the game, hate the playa.

Don't Hate The Playa/Playette Hate The Game 

Do not fault the successful participant in a flawed system; try instead to discern and rebuke that aspect of its organization which allows or encourages the behavior that has provoked your displeasure.
Teacher: You have plagarized this essay.
Student: Don't hate the player; hate the game.

Don't Hate The Playa/Playette Hate The Game 

don't dislike someone for their actions, consider instead the situation that causes it.

first use: Ice T: "Hate the Playa"

origin: (?) Ghandi Quote: "Hate the sin and love the sinner."
another use of Don't Hate The Playa/Playette Hate The Game, from Ice T's "Hate the Playa"

"I don't know why a player wanna hate T
I didn't choose the game, the game chose me"

Don't Hate The Playa/Playette Hate The Game 

Used by pimps and pimpettes to clear up the truth on the pimp/pimpette game/
When Gina the pimpette moved on to other guys she told the old one don't hate the playa,hate the game.

playa from the hymalaya

a playa with skills so high, his skills could touch a women on top of the hymalayian mountains....
What up playa from the hymalayas I heard you got the digits from that stuck up rich girl, who said she would never date a playa like you.
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
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Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.
Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026
Word of the Day on September 23, 2026

murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
Word of the Day on September 22, 2026
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