A literary device where a character's pursuit of an ideal or unattainable desire is intensified by its fleeting, transient nature. This paradoxical longing becomes more powerful and all-consuming precisely because the object of desire is perpetually elusive or only exists as a constructed ideal rather than a tangible reality.

Brilliant Marketing ploys. Often using subtle and/or innovative ways to sell a product.

The manner in which a person from Yorkshire, England pronounces the word "poo".

He's the best person you can get. He is the most smart and sexiest person you ever meet. He is the best Guy you can meet.he is good in the bed to

A term most commonly used to describe white people who use appropriate and gentrify black culture mainly slang/AAVE, alternatively used to describe those who are deemed "corny" or people you don't like, the term, like many others was, funnily enough gentrified by #thosepeople.

A now seldom used Mancunian colloquialism for an area of derelict ground.

As children growing up in 1970's inner city Manchester, we would spend many hours playing on nearby crofts - usually old pe-existing bombsites from WW2, or rubble strewn areas left over from the slum clearances of the 50's and 60's.