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Wheel Of Death 

A circus performance which has 2 or 1 hamster wheels on the both ends of a handle and is suspended by wires or sometimes a stand. They mostly stand around 25-40 feet depending on how its built.
Person 1 : Have you seen a wheel of death act?
Person 2 : Yea, I was scared shitless when he started jumproping.
Wheel Of Death by loleieolss July 25, 2022

rainbow wheel of death 

that damned icon that appears whenever you screw up in OSX and you feel like smashing your computer.
George encountered the rainbow wheel of death when he tried to look at porn and it gave him a virus.

spinning wheel of death

Similar to the blue screen of death, this is when you get the spinning color wheel that never stops when a program freezes on a Mac. It's slightly less annoying than the blue screen since you can often kill the program without restarting.
guy1: "Hey I thought Mac's were reliable, what's up with this bullshit spinning wheel of death?"
guy2: "Nah, Steve Jobs is a douche too"

pin wheel of death 

When you're using a Mac on OS X and your mouse has the pin wheel loading something, but it never stops causing you to have to restart your machine.
Man 1:Hey I was in Imovie when I got the Pin Wheel of Death
Man 2:Hmmm I thought Macs were supposed to be "perfect"?

Rotating Wheel of Death

The Macintosh version of the Blue Screen of Death. 1/264,000 as likely to happen.
I clicked and clicked but to no avail, the mouse cursor remained the rotating wheel of death.
Rotating Wheel of Death by Dumbath February 10, 2010

Spinny Wheel of Death 

The colorful waiting sign on a mac when your program is not responding causing a slow a death due to high stress levels
Don't give me the spinny wheel of death!
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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.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

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Word of the Day on September 26, 2026

You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
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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
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