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What you've stumbled into when you go to look something up quickly in Wikipedia only to emerge 3 hours later having followed hundreds of links into myriad topics about which you never thought you would care. Like quicksand, its grip is unrelenting and the more one tries to extricate oneself, the more browser tabs one opens to continue down alternate paths. Usually starts out as a momentary tangent to try to dredge up memories of an old technology or company or natural disaster and quickly turns into an all-day waste of time. Not that learning is a waste of time, but you should really get back to work already. And close some of those tabs.
I only wanted to quickly look up this Senator, but I got stuck in wiksand and now I know all of the African countries by heart and the chemical make-up of capsaicin.
wiksand by zeroday August 1, 2008

wikiganda 

A portmanteau of Wikipedia and propaganda, wikiganda is what issues from the O’Sullivan’s Law-subsumed online encyclopedia that ostensibly "anyone can edit", but which in practice is a thought-policed lie-factory peddling establishment narratives.
"When a CNN or a FOX News bimbette reads some bullshit off her teleprompter, you don't buy it for a second, because yer smart, right? But when the same thing is written in Wikipedia with CNN or FOX as the 'reliable source', your dumb brain will eat it up with a spoon. And the garbage will sit there for years, waiting patiently like poison in an unlabeled container. That's the power of wikiganda."
wikiganda by Bezzle Bedeviled August 12, 2019

wikiwander 

To move freely about Wikipedia articles without a definite purpose or goal.
"I'm so bored I spent the last 12 hours wikiwandering and ended up in an article about the No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron."
wikiwander by Steve Chan July 16, 2008

WikiTarded

The concept that reading a Wikipedia page makes you an expert on a given subject matter.
That smart mouth little puss-wagon thinks he sounds intelligent, but he's really WikiTarded.
WikiTarded by SoulBlades July 22, 2010

wikistudy 

to read a book(usally a famous book and usally done for school) by checking its entry on Wikipeida to learn the plot, beging, middle, end and all the other key points without readin for hours on end
guy 1:Dawg our test on (Lord of the flies/catcher in the rye/The count of Monte crisco etc.) is in 2 hrs and I haven't read the book

guy 2: just go on Wikipedia and wikistudy it and you'll get all the key points
wikistudy by David Granderson March 21, 2007

Wikitarded

Reliant upon wiki-style sources for new information. Unable to generate or locate facts independently.
"Don't ask John. He's wikitarded."
Wikitarded by Cory McMillen March 20, 2007
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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
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Palmela Handerson 

Your hand that you masturbate with.
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Blue Movie 

A pornographic film.

The use of the word "blue" to refer to sexually explicit content was first recorded in Scotland in 1824. "Blue" meant "lewd" because prostitutes dressed in blue gowns.
I found your stash of blue movies under your bed.
Blue Movie by Shayde79 January 20, 2011
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fache-couture 

French slang, which translated, means "bull's fashion" but basically equates to "hyper trendy" or overly trendy. Used when a person wishes to express distaste at the latest fashion trend/fad, because it seems that everyone has a certain item of clothing or is wearing it. This term is most frequently heard in Paris but is slowly spreading to other parts of France.
1. That Burberry scarf is so fache-couture.
2. That purple American Apparel hoodie is so fache-couture.
fache-couture by bkgmh46x0x March 18, 2008
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