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A term for a person who is loving and caring to someone they like until their love, admiration and devotion becomes feisty and mentally destructive in nature through over protectiveness, violence, brutality or all three combined. Yandere is mentally unstable and uses extreme violence or brutality as an outlet for their emotions.

Simply put, a yandere is lovesick; someone who has been driven to insanity by extreme obsession or love, thus resulting in abnormal behaviour if not violence. Take the tropes "Love Makes You Crazy", "Love Makes You Evil", "Love Hungry" and "Stalker with a Crush", turn them all up to eleven, and condense everything into a singular personified character archetype

Types of yanderes:

Mugai-gata
Harmless type

Kanchigai-gata
'Wrong idea' type

Shuuchaku-gata
Obsession type

Sutookaa-gata
Stalker type

Dokusen-gata
Monopoly type (most common one)

Ison-gata
Dependence type ('dependence' as in addiction)

Touei-gata
Projection type

Shoushitsu-gata
Disappearence type

Shuumatsu-gata
Final type ('final' as in 'the end')

DV-gata
Domestic violence type

Sokubaku-gata
Restraints type

Mousou-gata
Delusion type

Jishou-gata
Self-harm type

Haijo-gata
Removal type

Shinjuu-gata
Double suicide
(I was quite surprised when i found out that Dazai from BSD is a yandere tho)

Jiko-gisei-gata
Self-sacrifice type

Suuhai-gata
Worship type

Choukyou-gata
Training type

Koritsu yuudou-gata
Loneliness induction type

Kyouki-gata
Bizarre-seeking type
Yandere: Come on, what's the problem? Just give me your heart! Gosh, she couldn't mean that much. Let me give you my love!
Someone who is clingy and jealous to their most pathological extremes, leading to criminal acts such as stalking, kidnapping, maiming, or murder (of you and/or their perceived rivals for your love).
"Yandere" is a combination of two Japanese terms: "yanderu” (to be sick), and "dere-dere” (to be lovey-dovey). The yandere is a popular character trope in anime.
Yandere by IntrospectiveLiz March 9, 2021

50 Yarder 

A chick that looks hot from far away but fugly up close.
Bro #1: Hey bro what do you think about that girl Alex at work?
Bro #2: Oh you mean "50 Yarder?"
Bro #1: Why do you call her that?
Bro #2: Look it up on Urban Dictionary.
50 Yarder by mikehunt123123 February 10, 2015

Yandere Dev 

A developer who gets a game idea that interests a lot of people then when he's earning thousands of dollars of his supporters. Only makes progress once every 3 months.
It's been so long, but yandere dev has made only 2 weeks worth of progress. He streams Animal Crossing, and makes slurp sounds when staring at a Anime Girl's boobs.
Yandere Dev by Potato.Exe July 16, 2020

Ben yedder 

A dangerous substance that can often lead to people developing aids
fuck off ben yedder you midget bastard
Ben yedder by Fifa is shit May 28, 2020
A person who will go to near-extreme to extreme lengths to be in or deepen a desired relationship, weather it be romantic, platonic, familial, etc.
“Yeah, I would kill for my brother. Guess you could call me a yandere.”

“I think my ex is a yandere... I see him everywhere.”
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doorwall 

A door wall is a sliding-glass door or patio door. The term is yet another example of banal Michigan vernacular, where in the residents latch on to company names, trademark names, marketing terms and product names from local companies. The terms become embedded in the local vocabulary and eventually become accepted as actual valid words and phrases. In this case the term comes from Wallside Windows in Taylor, MI (a large window manufacturer), where 'door wall' is their created word for sliding-glass door.
"Bob! John's gonna bring over them doorwalls from Wallsides on Tuesdee afternoon 'round two-thirty. Get 'er done!"
doorwall by MaxSeven October 26, 2011
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Teammate wipes out the entire enemy team.
You: Holy shit, he's fucking cracked!
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Frothability 

The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.
The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, driving property prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.
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Soul digger

A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
pod person by Christopher M. May 9, 2005
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