nerd osmosis - noun phrase - The phenomenon in which one picks up a small amount of knowledge about something one isn't particularly interested in because they spend time around other people who are and who talk about it a great deal. For example, it's possible to pick up a little knowledge of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and its fandom without being a brony just because you are surrounded by people who are on a regular basis.
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Snowhawk (n): The ridge of snow in the middle of the roof of the vehicle that the driver couldn't reach and is driving around with.
Source: Nauga Clown
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Beginner's lock: When you get a new lock for your collection and pick it open a couple of times without a whole lot of trouble. Then you put the lock down for a day or so and subsequently have absolutely no luck getting it open again for weeks or months.
ref., beginner's luck
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Avocado toast (n): a cheap luxury, especially one which is perceived as being very expensive but is actually trivial; can also refer to the trivial cost thereof.
"Oh, hey, when can I drop off that fleece you loaned me?"
"Nah, keep it. It's just avocado toast."
Avocado toast (v): To reduce your spending by a trivial amount, (i.e., by the cost of avocado toast).
"Oh shit. How are we going to pay to fix the car?"
"We could... stop eating out?"
"The frame is bent, it's leaking coolant, and the front bumper is in a tree. I don't think …
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thousand meter stare - noun phrase - Watching multiple poorly designed dashboards jam packed with graphs, meters, gauges, and other barely useful metrics, day in and day out. If you imagine the thousand yard stare into multiple displays showing said dashboards, that's it.
Inspiration: Rev. Nikolai Kingsley
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shark mode - noun phrase - The state in which a given piece of software is sufficiently developed that it doesn't really need any additional work, save to keep it working in more modern environments. Comes from the idea that sharks haven't evolved notably in millions of years because they haven't had to. They're so perfectly suited to their environment that any changes are minimal at best.
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profit honeymoon - noun phrase - When the price of a barrel of oil goes up (or when something occurs that could eventually make it go up) the price at the pump goes up immediately. But when the price of crude goes down, there's always a 1 to 3 month lag time before the price at the pump goes down. If it goes down.
Source: @emsprater1 and @jaydcarr
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Strossian Nightmare - noun phrase - Where the Great Old Ones haven't taken control, but things have gotten so bad that you wish they had.
Source: @tautology
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wad;dis - Working As Designed; Design Is Stupid
Source: Anonymous co-worker
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follicular surveillance - when you use the "you are under surveillance" screens at self-service checkouts to check on the progress of your androgenic alopecia.
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