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New word: pinbombed

word:
pinbombed

definition:
When someone pins many many pins of the same topic/theme to Pinterest, so it takes over the screen when someone looks through their feed.

example:
I just pinbombed 30 different photos of potatoes! All my followers will have to scroll through a potatoland field!

tags:
pinterest, pin, pinning, bomb, attack, a lot, many, quantity, excessive

first usage:
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This word has never been used online in reference to pinterest. Surprising, since pinterest is the media's newest social media darling. Actually, Google only has 8 results for pinbombed.
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Here's a sample pinbomb:
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0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, April 04, 2012
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New word: gomo

word:
gomo

definition:
When you are too tired to say the full "good morning."

example:
gomo. i need my coffee

tags:
good morning, greeting, morning, short, bonjour, buenos dias, good morrow, greetings

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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New definition: np

word:
np

definition:
Short for "nip it in the bud"

example:
person 1: This is totally getting out of hand, I can't stop eating bags and bags of chocolates.
person 2: np

tags:
no problem, abbreviation, acronym, problem, help, control

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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New word: overload

word:
overload

definition:
When something is so immensely cute, overload encompasses the object that is cute and the feeling of cute. The viewer becomes completely whelmed, thus one's feelings goes on overload. And the object of cuteness is an overload of cute.

example:
1) I am so on overload by this cute puppy! 2) This cute pupppy is so cute overload.

tags:
cute, overload, adorable, beautiful, charming, dainty, delightful, pleasant, pretty, overflowing, abundance, heaps, loads, a lot, tons, immense

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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New word: weekstart

word:
weekstart

definition:
The start of the work week. Typically Monday. People say "have a happy weekend" on Fridays. On Mondays people greet each other with a happy weekstart.

example:
It's Monday, happy weekstart!

tags:
monday, time, day, week, weekend, beginning, start

first usage:
In a sticky note comics post
Sticky note comics: Happy weekstart!

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, March 07, 2012
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New word: cohog

word:
cohog

definition:
Two people who take up all the space on the couch.

example:
Hey, why can't you make room for me on the couch!? You two are such cohogs!

tags:
hogs, rude, inconsiderate, couch, manners, polite, bad-mannered, barbarian, barbaric, obscene, uncivilized, ungracious, wild

first usage:
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0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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New word: buoyant poop

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Definition:
The type of poop that doesn't flush down the toilet on the first try.

Example:
I don't understand how people don't watch to see if their poopies go down. Sometimes they are very buoyant poop.

Tags:
poop, crap, poo, poopies, toilet, float, floating, buoyant

Source:
Tweet by mattshealth, December 7, 2011

Submitted to urbandictionary:
December 28, 2011

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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New word: WHOAAAAMAZING

word:
WHOAAAAMAZING

definition:
Combination of whoa and amazing. When something surprises you at first. And then you sit down and admire it's amazing character.

example:
WHOAAAAMAZING! Look at all those fireflies! I have never seen such a sight.

tags:
whoa, amazing, incredible, wow, interjection, surprise, delight

first usage:
BrWe: fireflies! i love fireflies http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/stunning-time-lapse-photographs-of-gold-fireflies-in-japan/
Matt: the fireflies are cool!
Matt: WHOAAAAAMAZING!
Matt: OH! That needs to be in urbandictionary

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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New word: whodda whadda howdda?

word:
whodda whadda howdda?

definition:
Another way of saying "who?! what?! how?!" Usually spoken in shock.

example:
Your cat is not vegetarian? Whodda whadda howdda?

tags:
who, what, how, interjection, surprise, shock, unbelieveable, awe, confusion, excitement, hysteria, jolt, stupor, whammy

first usage:
Brwe: craigy's cat food just came in
Matt: oh! yum! did you try some?

Brwe: no, you said it smells bad, so why would i try it?
Matt: Maybe you are hungry. You are a cat, after all

Brwe: mystery meat. They say it's fish but it doesn't look or smell like fish
Matt: Your cat is not a vegetarian?!
Matt: whodda whadda howdda?

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, February 08, 2012
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New word: putemup

word:
putemup

definition:
The interjection one yells while one's fists are raised and is requesting that the other person engage in a brawl. Short for "put em up."

example:
You just ate all my milk chocolate covered toffee popcorn!? Putemup! Putemup.

tags:
fight, brawl, fist, fistacuffs, ask, request, engage, interjection, put, em, up

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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New word: lll

word:
lll

definition:
laughing laughing laughing. Not just a short laugh. Not just a laugh out loud. But a prolonged laugh of good length.

example:
Did you see that potato? lll

tags:
laugh, laughing, long, extended, length, happy, funny, hilarious, acronym, netspeak

Thanks to unlikelymoose for coming up with this definition over IM. For those curious how it developed here's the original conversation:
Matt: what do you think this word is? putemup
Erik: putemup? some kind of computer blip
Matt: nope! Branden got it on the first try

Pause.

Matt: put em up
Erik: i have no other guesses!
Matt: that's what it is! putemup = put em up
Erik: what? i can't put up any more guesses
Matt: lol. you thought i was just saying "put em up" to you. l o l
Erik: l l l
Matt: l l l that's cool! What's it mean?
Erik: laugh laugh laugh
Erik: lll
Matt: lll
Erik: lll

Matt: are you going to submit that to urbandictionary?
Erik: no. be my guest

Matt: that definition is not on there!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?
Erik: LLL
Matt: lll

Matt: what should be my sample usage for the definition?

Matt: Did you see that potato? lll
Matt: I should make all my examples on urbandictionary involve a potato.
Erik: when you're not laughing out loud, you're just laughing, hence lll.
Matt: no. lll means laughing in a long seuqence. It's a long prolonged laugh.

Erik: oh. ok.

Matt: right?
Erik: right
UPDATE: urbandictionary did accept my definition.

0 archived comments | New Words | Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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New word: CRZAY

Word:
CRZAY

Definition:
When something is beyond crazy. You can't even get yourself to say crazy the normal way, you end up saying CRZAY.

Example:
Person 1: This donut is so CRZAY.
Person 2: You mean crazy?
Person 1: Did you hear what I just said? I said CRZAY.

Tags:
ape, batty, berserk, bonkers, cuckoo, flipped, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, nuts

1 archived comments | New Words | Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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New word: idontbelieveinsearchengines

I'm excited to submit another word to urbandictionary, because hopefully the high-culture elitists at urbandictionary reject the word and then my list of rejected words will grow. Here we have the new word "idontbelieveinsearchengines"
Word:
idontbelieveinsearchengines

Definition:
When you ask someone a question because you are too lazy to Google it.

Usage:
Hey, how many times have the Detroit Tigers won the World Series, idontbelieveinsearchengines.

Tags:
question, ask, lazy, google, search engine, inquiring, inquiry, query, ask about, pick one's brains, quiz, raise question, search, seek, show curiosity
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UPDATE:

Yup. The linguistic elitists at urbandictionary.com have REJECTED my word. It took them two hours and 24 minutes to make their decision. "Editors reviewed your entry and have decided to not publish it." Screenshot of the rejection letter:
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3 archived comments | New Words | Monday, September 26, 2011
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The new word for cool is JAMONIT

Jamonit! That's how to say cool. It comes from the song "Jam on it" by Newcleus:



On June 22, 2011 I started the trend by making a bunch of tweets with #jamonit!

0 archived comments | New Words | Friday, June 24, 2011
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NEW WORD: wird

weird + wild = wird

wird
def: Weird and wild
example: The bears play tonight? That's wird.


1 archived comments | New Words | Monday, January 17, 2011
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