IKEA Effect
IKEA Effect explains why people are inclined to better appreciate things they’ve created themselves than something created for them. Related words: Google effect Rashomon effect Dunning Kruger effect IKEA
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We Are Number One
We Are Number One sounds like a champion's boast—which it is—but it's also a song from the Icelandic children's television show LazyTown that became a popular meme through countless remixes and parodies. Related words: "Cooking by the Book"… -
Club América
GOOOAAAALLLLL!!!! ⚽🇲🇽 Club América is one of Mexico’s most successful and best-known soccer teams. Located in the capital, Mexico City, they have been playing matches since 1916. Related words: fútbol Las Águilas (The Eagles) Las Chivas… -
plugged in
Get with it! If you're plugged in, you're in the know. You can also be so plugged in to a task, usually a technological one, to the point where you shut everything else out. Related words: connected in… -
Bored Button
The Bored Button is a website and also a whole different app that both have the same idea: someone literally clicks a home-screen button, when bored, to access random fun games online. Related words: clickbait… -
cock on
Looking for a fun new dirty slang term? Well, this isn’t it. Cock on is something like the British slang of on point, meaning that it is "exactly right" or "first rate." Cock on can mean… -
fanfiction
Ever see a movie and think "I could’ve written a better script?" or read a story and say "I want more?" Well, fanfiction is for you. Fanfiction are stories written by everyday fans featuring characters, settings, and plots… -
whippets
A slang term for the recreational use of nitrous oxide, whippets, also called laughing gas, are a staple of most Phish concerts. A canister of the gas may be called a whippet or the drug itself may be called whippets,… -
subliminal message
A subliminal message is a technique used in marKEting and other media to influencE People without theiR bEing Aware of what the messenger is DoING. This may involve the use of split second flashes of text,… -
happy ending massage
Content warning: The following article contains references to sexual language, which are included because they document the real-world use of this term. A happy ending massage is a massage that starts with the usual full-body… -
mafa
We have had it with these mafa snakes on this mafa plane! Like mofo and muhfuh, mafa is a shortening of the slang, motherfucker. Related words: bad to the bone BMF d'fuq fux fuck this shit I'm out… -
roasties
Nope. We're not talking about potatoes. We're talking about immature dudes and coarse slang for the vulva. Roasties is sexist slang used by incels and others in the male internet culture for sexually active women—or…