A person, usually an American but can be any nationality aside from British, who is addicted to using British terms, phrases, and idioms. In addition, the wankaholic often misuses the British expressions he believes he is using correctly. The term is a combination of the words, "wanker," a derogatory British expression, and "alcoholic," a person who is addicted to alcohol.

American: That movie was bloody good!
Brit: "Bloody good?" What are you, a wankaholic?

Brit #1: My American friend Milo is a real wankaholic.
Brit #2: What makes you say that?
Brit #1: Every time he sees someone he doesn't like, he calls them a "wanker."

wankaholic by Like, An Actual Linguist May 5, 2018

Related Words

wankaholic • Wankoholic • wackaholic • walkaholic • workaholic • wankalicious • Bankaholic • Dankaholic • gankaholic • WAJaholic

workaholic

A person who is addicted to working, to the point where their life consists only of work and sleep. They have very few friends, if any, and some rarely see their own families.
Workaholics often suffer from fatigue, sleeping disorders, stress and stress-related ailments, and some eventually work themselves to death. Workaholics are a common sight in some East Asian countries, but are less prevalent in North America and even less in Europe.

Jimmy neglects his family so he can spend more time working, he's a workaholic.

workaholic by captainfugu December 30, 2008

workaholic boss

A boss who is addicted to work and expects his employees to work as hard as he does.

I have a workaholic boss, he calls me even when he is on vacation!

workaholic boss by Rêveur January 11, 2009

Whackaholic

An individual who chronically masturbates, typically 3+ times a day on average.

"Where the hell is Joe?"

"I told you he'd be late cause he's beatin' it. The kid is a total whackaholic."

Whackaholic by CDuFF105 August 21, 2008

Wankcoholic

Pathetic and compulsive masturbation attempts whilst drunk and unable to get an erection.

-I got drunk and hornie last night, totally wankcoholic!

Wankcoholic by Halevi January 29, 2015

Workaholics

A Comedy Central show that first aired in early April of 2011 and is absolutely hilarious. It follows three friends living and working together after college. Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine and Anders Holm star in this scripted comedy where they spend their days selling time shares and their nights partying. Even though college ended, the fun hasn't.

Kevin: Dude it's Wednesday, guess what's on tonight. New episode of Workaholics!!
Devin: That show is so funny man, cannot wait.

Workaholics by mermaidcat May 17, 2011

Galantir

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

Whale

In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.

Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.

"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."

Whale by FQ_GFY February 3, 2020

Word of the Day on September 21, 2026

Concrete cowboy

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.

Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.

Concrete cowboy by EugeneJohnson42000 March 16, 2024

Word of the Day on September 20, 2026

hobo loko

any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear

hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh

hobo loko by d i z k o 2 0 8 September 14, 2026

Word of the Day on September 19, 2026