NASAspeak for maintaining a position in orbit. Also station-keeping (wikipedia)
Spotted this term in a BBC article about a new satellite being place in a Lagrange position to see the sun from a different angle.
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spotted as businesspeak for 1 on 1 meeting
4 rotations in an acrobatic sport. 1 turn more than a 1080
spotted in the news regarding an Olympic Flag Carrier coin toss decision.
Spotted this term being discussed in Lexicon Valley Episode No. 75 at the 20 minute mark.
The podcast said that 23 referred to the Flatiron Building in New York and people's dresses being affected by the wind.
Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to this term.
Refers to working conditions in China: 9am to 9pm 6 days a week
Spotted in BBC news where an airline apologized for making fun of a kids name.
"as far as I can tell" . AFAICT
Google books says the song goes back to at least 1958
https://books.google.ca/books?id=jigNd06IAyoC&p=67
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Spotted ths term. I'm not sure if this is an official term.
a negatively charged electrolyte . see also, catholyte
the pairing of an asterix and slash
*/
The warming of the arctic ocean and the influx of Atlantic species. Probably should be Capitalized
Super rare Star Wars fictional gold
An avocado as big as your head.
snowboarding references at chicken salad
Spotted in an article about inflatable parade floats
Spotted this in Calgary news. Another guy goes on an aerial flight.
' “It appears we just got Banksy-ed,” said Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s senior director and head of contemporary art in Europe.'
Spotted in the Guardian Article - Banksy auction prank leaves art world in shreds
🎈🏃♀️
the ASCII characters \!*
Computer gaming - refers to a game where huge teams play against each other.
ie, 50 vs 50, last team standing wins.
The land region of the Bering Sea Land Bridge from the last ice age.
Spotted in the Guardian
'The newly-discovered group, named “ancient Beringians”, appears to have split off from the founding population of Native Americans about 20,000 years ago.'
- Jan 3 article: Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native Americans: the ancient Beringians
Spotted in a NASA tweet.
spotted this as an alternative to bollocks
Spotted in the BBC Royal Wedding news
'Bowl food is larger than a canapé and around a quarter of the size of a main course.
It is served in miniature or hand-sized bowls and comes ready to eat with a small fork.
The idea behind a bowl food menu is so guests can stay standing up and mingle while they eat. It has been described by caterers as an option which allows guests to "keep on talking".
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Bro
Buckingham Palace
A form of censorship which refers to buying the exclusive rights to a news story, and then not publishing the story to protect a person the story is about.
My favourite new Hawaii slang. Spotted in the news about a cashier who looks like Disney's Maui
|￣￣￣￣￣ ￣￣￣|
| It looks like
| you're trying
| to look up
| Clippy .
| ＿＿____________ |
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ꙭ
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"They were foot ballers from all over the state, had their come downs in Adelaide"
- Spotted in an Objectivity video, so I assume it's real Australianese for 'come down for a visit'.
watch?v=FtEQuM7JmdI
On Twitter, it seems to refer to withdrawal symptoms from caffeine or some substance.
I suspect this word shows up in print because that's how some people say constant
is where a web browser is hijacked to run a crypto-mining program for someone else.
When an airplane straightens out to land on a runway when flying slightly sideways in a crosswind.
Computer gaming - refers to the Desert Eagle pistol in a computer game.
Spotted in the news: when online services no longer do business with an organization, removing their platform services
"the little h" or Planck's constant.
Spotted a new 2018 usage in an Ariana song
donut shaped chicken nugget
A type of music i'm not familiar with
Also spotted, in same video referenced in EBCDIC
pronounced ebb-sid-issity
education technology blend
An acting achievement where tou win Emmy, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy
https://books.google.ca/books?id=BjsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&dq=elders+internet
March 14 1994 , Info World
I don't think this is the actual root of this term.
E. of The Internet spotted in Internet Engineering Task Force document https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-elders-social-media-apology-00 - July 2018
see also 'elder days' at the Jargon File. http://catb.org/jargon/html/E/elder-days.html This version of Jargon File is from the late 90's.
Version 2.1.1 had the first reference to 'elder'
"1. To attach a removable storage volume to a machine.
In elder days and on mainframes this verb was used almostexclusively of tapes; nowadays (especially under UNIX) it is more
likely to refer to a disk volume"
Version 2.8.2 had the first Lord Of the Rings based reference to elders.
March 23 1991
elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); theera of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS, and the ARPANET. This
term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's
fantasy epic `The Lord of the Rings'. Compare Iron Age;
see also elvish.
A google books search will find some instances of 'elders' in the 1990's referring to the groups that decide on internet and ethernet standards.
copypasta for emojis
Spotted as slang for every
Spotted as a verb, cycling term in a BBC article.
'The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest'
"Everesting is a cycling challenge where you pick a hill and ride up it over and over again until you've scaled 8,848m - the height of Mt Everest."
easy peasy
Easy peasy
"We have ferryspotters? Yes, we do. Like British trainspotters, they chat happily on online forums, tracking the ships and burrowing into the minutiae of those big, complicated people-movers that most of us rely on without ever pausing to ponder how they actually work. "
http://www.vancourier.com/opinion/ferry-s-whistle-back-to-tooting-a-major-chord-1.23155089
Spotted this in gaming (Fortnite) but it seems to have a meaning on twitter.
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fittin ta
the f-word in textspeak.
twitterese, txtspk "for real"
spotted in the BBC
'Call for UK ban on 'grotesquely sugary' freakshakes' Nov 12, 2018
"Freakshakes are milkshakes that also contain chocolates, sweets, cake, cream and sauce."
What some people in the UK want to call the frunk, a front boot, instead of a front trunk.
text speak - 'for the love of god'
looking up s2g at ud gives 'swear to god'
got 2 go
twitterese, text speak.
a "Gallium/Indium/Tin " alloy, which has a very low melting point
General Data Protection Regulation
fans of Goop
Science Fiction (Marvel Universe) - material that affects gravity.
hate beets , tomatoes yummy
textspeak "happy birthday to you"
Another word to add to the swear jar.
I like this one. It's a fun insult.
This is 2017/2018 memespeak for 'hello'.
Spotted in Guardian article where 'eating bananas whole' is an issue for people... also, Ice Cream.
having 6 cpu cores
a hiccough
a 1400's word spotted in an 1800's dictionary on Archaic and Disused words.
High Intensity Interval Training
HTTP Strict Transport Security
Spotted online as meaning the 'Human Element'
after the periodic table.
spray on grass - used to stabilize hills from erosion.
If the Google book search is accurate, this goes back to 1925 science fiction.
"We could just equip the space ship with something we might call Hyper-drive, and let it go at that."
Term later found in 1950's Analog and Galaxy science fiction magazines.
Spotted this tweeted by a science radio show.
txtspk for 'I love you so much'
Intermediate Mass Black Hole
I think this means imo or "In My Opinion"
Spotted in CBC news article.
'Indigeneer' combines scientific methods and traditional Indigenous knowledge
Instagram skill level
Spotted this word again in 2018.
It appears to have some sticking power in the language.
"international prototype of the kilogram " This refers to the Platinum alloy model of the kilogram kept in storage in France.
spotted as "I swear to god"
First spotted the it me in 2017. I wonder what other sentences are just nouns.
Hyperbolic term spotted in The Register as a linux kernel developer.
from https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/si-mep/MeP-kg-2018.pdf
"The kilogram, symbol kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is defined by taking the fixed
numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10–34 when expressed
in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m2 s
–1
, where the metre and the second are
defined in terms of c and ∆νCs."
Nov 2018 redefinition of kilogram.
Mandatory XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/2073/
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, select Start
What the Mars Curiosity rover just called its landing anniversary.
Wiktionary seems to have a 'Neutral Point of View' theme which neutralizes half of the meaning of a word and blandifies it to something a committee agrees on.
'Laze -- a mashup of "lava" and "haze" -- is a nasty product formed when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air'
- Spotted on CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-lava-flow/index.html
This refers to the mechanical platinum alloy model of the kilogram which has been in use for the last 200 years.
NASAspeak for maintaining a position in orbit. Also station-keeping (wikipedia)
" And 'manholers' flock from far and wide to photograph the artworks"
BBC article on fancy Japanes manhole covers. 'Japan's elaborate manhole covers' .
Spotted as a Mars Architect
spotted in an ad.
Free,
According to my Aussie friend
From a CBC news article : "Meghalayan (Late Holocene) Age, which runs from the start of a "mega-drought" 4,200 years ago to the present day."
a version of meowtain
(spotted on Twitter, of course)
Fox News headline "'Professional mermaid' says creepy 'merverts' are the worst part of the job"
September through November
https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=autumn
also meteorological fall
liquid methane, liquid oxygen, rocket fuel
spotted as being a mobile game
The Ascii Table people ask 'what's a monothorpe?'
spotted in the news
'Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of television stations in the U.S., employs a well-known practice of producing "must-runs," conservative commentary segments that each Sinclair-owned station is required to air. ' - Seattle PI.
On the first day of NaNoWriMas the writer typed to thee "It was a dark and stormy night.."
Spotted in the news,... drones used by drug gangs
"no earlier than" date for a space launch.
Spotted as noodles.
Norway english.
Worth a web search.
in 2018 news, it's a nerve agent which has historically been associated with Russia.
Well then...
2018 Winter Olympics: Olympic Athletes from Russia
"The word has appeared in many forms, including octothorn, octalthorp, octothorp, and octatherp as well as octothorpe. "
- World Wide Words - 1999 http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm
Spotted in a Vancouver Public Library tweet.
https://twitter.com/VPL/status/1052368633794580481
"Oojay-cum-spiff, adj. "All you have to do,’ I said, ‘is to carry on here for a few weeks more, and everything will be oojah-cum-spiff." 1930 PG Wodehouse.
Check out the meaning in our Oxford English Dictionary. Part of our Digital Library
I'm glad to see this listed at Wordnik.
Spotted in the news. A police cat
Spotted in Register article about cell phones being used to check for veins and check pulse and circulation measurements.
I look forward to April 1 when the pranksters who coined this word admit it was a joke.
Picking up garbage while jogging?
A migraine hangover
I cannot unsee the visuals from my FB feed
forgetting what you ordered on Amazon when the package arrives.
Spotted in BC's 2018 referendum for Proportional Representation
Purple Screen Of Death - the 2018 equivalent to the BSOD
Computing - a package test.
That would make sense.
no idea what this word means.
spotted in the news.
... and anyone who studies the etymology of this word would be a Qarlinnguaist. :)
Name of a 'pants' shaped rock formation in northern Canada.
'The Nunavut community of Arctic Bay calls it "Qarlinngua" — pronounced "kar-ling-wah," which means "like pants" in Inuktitut.' -CBC news
half an octothorpe
For 'the equals sign'
https://books.google.ca/books?id=g80P_4v4QbIC&pg=PA46&dq=quadrathorpe
Refers to people who prefer remain intstead of Brexit. Remainer.
" a retpoline is a return trampoline that uses an infinite loop that is never executed to ..."
- stackoverflow.
gotta love tech speak (the above doesn't make sense to me)
This word showed up January 3rd'ish in reference to Spectre and Meltdown bugs.
'He wants to build a "Rockoon," a rocket that is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and lit.'
- spotted in CBC news story of a rocketeer who thinks the world is flat.
Spotted as retweeted
dunno.
The rocket launch industry likes to shorten words, verbing nouns, nouning verbs.
NASA speak for having been made safe.
a radio call you may hear is "Stage 1 FTS safed"
spotted this in a discussion about the recent water landing of a rocket.
Spotted in the Guardian " Sarcelles has come to represent everything wrong with Paris’s banlieues to such an extent that there’s even a word – Sarcellitis – to describe the ennui created by modernist high-rises, concrete and social isolation."
Sootted in news article where a Sasquatch believer sued the BC government.
Made popular by Homer Simpson
Is where people mess with phone and email scammers to waste their time and frustrate them.
"scream belting"
Spotted online as a joke - a Senior Teenager - An old person who has no job, and no worries.
Spotted in CBC article 'New dictionary published for Indigenous Vancouver Island language'
"... SENĆOŦEN is one of the one of the Coast Salish group of languages that is written in a mainly upper-case alphabet."
spotted as "just for shiggrins"
fanspeak : shipper happening
Spotted Holy Shirtballs on twitter, then a quick search revealed variants of holy mother forking shirtballs.
SHOUTY👏CLAP👏SPOTTED👏AT https://twitter.com/timhwang/status/969583233867403264
"Security incident and event management"
- wikipedia
This is a computer security term. I keep seeing it and having to look it up.
/*
pairing of a slash and asterix .
text messaging
From the examples listed here '...and the light drizzle at home turns to the sleet-snow hybrid known locally as “snoosh.” '
In Japan, snow monsters are snow covered alpine trees which have interesting shapes due to the wind blowing snow.
Spotted in the Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/01/photos-of-the-week-aerobatic-performers-snow-monsters-a-murmuration/551624/
La Langue Musicale Universelle , Universal Musical Language .. spotted in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyC4lLTOyL8 .
A language made of music"
Easterspeak for 'somebody'
"It's sorta true" -Eric Idle on Colbert Late Show
spotted this word without the i on the end, and I think it's intentional.
also, spotted with an o at the end.
uh oh spaghettios!
one of the better words I stumbled across in 2018
Spotted a case of this becoming a generic term. " The future will be Spotified"
Oh Wiktionary, you 'clean up' the definition by not putting maintenance tasks in to the definition.
textese, twitterspeak "swear to god"
Spotted in an XKCD comic... and I suspect I've seen this around before as a SUDO user in a Linux / UNIX sense.
from the Tinder app... not a match; nope.;
from the tinder dating app, 'like'.
to be quite honest
spotted in a robotics video for teleoperation
"now we should be able to telop the car"
a keyboard without the number pad.
aka TKL
The lord Of The Rings
Hyperbolic slang for totally
an archaic term for trials?
Twitter tickets - tech support tickets which come in from Twitter to a company's tech support system.
also 2-peat and see three-peat
Windows term for User Account Control
the computer protection based on approval popups which you get when you try to run an unknown executable in Windows.
Just saw this is defined at ultima thule
"most north"
Ultima Thule is a nickname of an object in the Kuiper Belt.
If you google the progression of programmer's thorpes, you get a programming language named Unithorpe
"Unithorpe
Unithorpe is a small interpreted programming language and its virtual machine.
The driving idea is to use a single unicode character to name each variable, function, namespace, builtin operator, etc. in the language. All data is either unicode characters or arrays of unicode characters or other arrays."
Also search Trithorpe and Oglethorpe (more computer languages by Henry Strickland)
I wonder if half the variable names render as Emoji
Refers to earlier in a threaded discussion.
US Mexico Canada Agreement.
Spotted on CBC News
If i had a wife, I wouldn't call er an ux
to fall, rain or snow.
spotted in https://books.google.ca/books?id=WVYJAAAAQAAJ&pg=795#v=onepage&q&f=false
The West Somerset Word-book
pronounced 'vixel'. vertical cavity surface emitting laser
Name of a poem which is written mostly in programming punctuation, but pronounced with the UNIX/ASCII names for the characters.
Calvin College - https://calvin.edu/news/archive/waka-waka-bang-splat-
so.. circa 1990 'ish
19th century book search shows this as a North American word.
a quick demonstration going over the basic features of an item or a piece of software.
Spotted as WhatsApp phishing.
...notes the examples listed
That time of day
Another Canadian lake monster, see Manipogo
"what would you do "
A New Orleans hangovers cure dish,
"Yet Another Meeting Will Fix This"
Spotted in LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Security Theatre talk.
I think a good linguistics prank would be to make Laurel/Yanni the word of the year.
"And the word of the year is ....*soundclip*"
There's a YouTube video which explains the difference between yaaas and yasss.
watch?v=6ZrYUOBshcE . 'The Origin of "Yas Queen" | Iris'
"Steven London explains the origins of "Yaaass Queen!"
I have no idea what this word really means in a gaming sense. scarequote's definition at yeet likely helps, but I think yeet means several things. - see twitter examples
spotted today
short for coyotes . Yotes
slang version of you would
I wonder which will last longer.. 'zaddy' as a word, or 'it me' as a sentence.
New place name in Vancouver. The plaza by the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
Is a representation for a table. From tableflip emoticon.
Spotted emojiphrase Book Worm
spotted 📷: as being a photo credit marker.
📷: photoperson.