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urban mining 

Scavenging through the scrap metal in old electronic products in search of precious metals (gold, silver, copper, iridium, palladium etc.).

Extracting valuable metals from electronic waste.
p1: I wonder where we will dump this old, shitty TV.
p2: Hmm, we should take it to junk yard, so they can urban mine it.
p1: Urban what?
p2: Urban mine it. To let it be dissembled and recycled
p1: Ok.

Urban mining is fast growing industry
urban mining by contris June 18, 2011
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urbanlining 

Having great fun walking, jumping and tricking on a one or two inch webbing pulled tight between two anchor points, also known as urbing or urban slacklining.
Hey Tim! Let's go out urbanlining!
urbanlining by TimothyFinland January 11, 2011

UrbanMining 

the theft of Materials for recycling. ie. copper power cables, Catalytic converters, ect..
sorry I'm late, my car is in the shop because some punks were urbanmining and got my catalytic converter.
UrbanMining by Scott Mills April 10, 2008

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

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026
Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
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