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wokespasm 

Instantaneous and convulsive wokeness that overcomes a person like a chest-burster from the movie Alien. It usually happens in response to the outrage headline du jour, and often coupled with wokenesia.
The reporter found out about Jeff Bezos' seemingly small donation for the Australian fires and had a wokespasm before fact checking Bezos' other charitable contributions. Even if the outrage is justified, it is still a wokespasm because no effort was made to consider all the facts before the convulsions of wokeness overtook the reporter.

USAGE NOTE: Although wokeness and wokespasms are often seen as progressive and libtard afflictions, conservatives also exhibit plenty of wokeness and have wokespasms. For instance, it is common to see conservatives provide a whataboutism in response to a wokespasm; and their whataboutism is often a wokespasm in response to a conveniently fabricated outrage du jour, or even a past event suddenly become outrage. Sometimes they are also straw man arguments. On the other hand, wokespasms often quickly turn into what a Trumpster era conservative would consider fake news. Wing nuts on both sides are guilty of wokespasms.
wokespasm by TheGaffGiraffe January 18, 2020
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wokegasm 

When you have thoughts so profound, that you become woke and it feels orgasmic.
I had a wokegasm when I realized time is an illusion.
wokegasm by Gatsusan April 14, 2018
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Wokegasm 

When it feels really good to be woke af
That last episode of Blac Mirror gave me a wokegasm

Wokeshame 

When you try to inform people about how their actions (ie, buying certain products, wasting water, etc). are contributing to ecological devastation or social oppression, and they insultingly call you “woke”.
I tried to inform my cousins about how buying that brand of hummus contributes to Palestinians’ oppression and they I tried to inform my cousins about how buying that brand of hummus contributes to Palestinians’ oppression and they hurled the slur “woke” at me. I was wokeshamed.
Wokeshame by Alev May 20, 2022
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Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026

Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026

age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 27, 2026

board chow 

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007
Word of the Day on August 26, 2026

young pup 

a young person, a young adult in their late teens/early 20s.
Ah, you're just a young pup at 23!
young pup by the dog May 30, 2006
Word of the Day on August 25, 2026
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