A fork of Rural Dictionary
Moscow Starfish
When you fall asleep drunk on a bed, sofa or floor with your arms splayed out in the shape of a star - with your clothes still on – and you wake up or are awoken the next morning in exactly the same pose.
The Moscow Starfish can be executed on one’s back as well as face down.
- Where’s Mark? He seemed pretty hammered last night.
- I looked into his room earlier, he’s still in a Moscow Starfish, exactly how I left him.
HBHW
Pronounced (Hub-how)
Short for:
Hot
But
Hard
Work
A girl who is so demanding and high maintenance that you give up dating her because the potential rewards aren't worth the loss of dignity caused by an onslaught of psychic pollution.
She's a HBHW....
- Wow! Do you know that girl?
- Yeah, but she's a HBHW. We went out on a couple of dates but she kept finding something wrong everywhere she looked, looked down on anyone we came into contact with and was constantly checking herself in the mirror. After the second date I had to tap out.
Acronym for
Negative, Toxic or Sensationalist.
Pertaining to the nature and bias of the content or posts we consume on a daily basis via the Big Tech platforms and traditional media.
My new year’s resolution is to substantially eliminate any content that’s NTS.
When a man walks into a space where there are one or more men in a way that announces his alpha maleness in some obviously way. This can be with a slow, shoulder-swinging walk, or just with a tough guy look on his face or with another affected gesture of nonchalance.
It can be as little as shooting you with a look though to 'let you know he's there' and is the alpha male within this particular territory, unless you have any ambitions to prove otherwise
Her ex-boyfriend walked in and started alphaing over by the the bar.
The slightly trance-like state someone falls into after submerging themselves in an extended period of scrolling aimlessly on social networks.
“Hey, snap out of your scroll coma and let’s back to work. Lunch break is over, I need you in the land of the living”.
kɔɪˈəʊtid
1. To be trapped in a meaningless conversation you're unable to get out of.
Usually, because you’re just too polite to do so.
Often, the other person doesn’t pick up on the fact that you’ve lost interest some time ago despite several clear indicators such as body language, facial expressions and light sarcastic nodding in agreement.
2. To be ranted and unable to escape.
See: taxi drivers, the entitled, your grandparents and others Dunning-Kruger'd up the ass.
Hey man, where did you disappear to?
Oh man, I just got Coyote’d over in the corner by Brendan. When he’s had a few, he really goes on, even when he has no idea what he’s talking about.
When you purchase an item of clothing or footwear from a retailer that you had always previously trusted to provide a minimum standard of quality but when you get home, a detail - such as a button, a buckle or a zip comes off in your hand before you’ve even had a chance to wear it.
A - Hey, aren’t you going to wear those new boots you got today?
B - Oh man, I’ve been sweatshopped. I’ve tried to do them up and the zip came off in my hand.