Results for “boys love”

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boys' love
noun

The umbrella genre for male-male romance media, mainly for women.

#anime#weeb#genre#romance
enemies to lovers
noun phrase

Mutual loathing curdles into devotion.

#booktok#fanfic#tropes#romance
shrek is love, shrek is life
phrase

Cult ironic catchphrase from a disturbing 2013 4chan Shrek copypasta, now used as devotional joke worship.

#4chan#copypasta#shrek#2010s
jump out boys
noun

Plainclothes anti-crime cops who pile out of an unmarked car and rush suspects.

#police#anti-crime#plainclothes#street
rollover
noun

Flame rolling across the ceiling as unburnt fire gases ignite overhead.

#firefighter#fire service#fire behavior#technical
one love
phrase

Unity / a warm goodbye — 'one love'

#caribbean#patois#rasta#greeting
lovely jubbly
interjection

Expression of delight; Del Boy catchphrase.

#cockney#london#british#exclamation
gawd love a duck
interjection

An exclamation of surprise or exasperation.

#cockney#london#british#exclamation
there's lovely
phrase

An expression meaning 'that's nice'.

#scottish#irish#idiom#welsh
puppy love
noun

Young, innocent, often fleeting romantic infatuation.

#dating#relationships#infatuation#young-love
lovebug
noun

An affectionate nickname for a sweetheart.

#dating#relationships#endearment#cute
lovesick
adjective

Miserable or preoccupied because of romantic longing.

#dating#relationships#longing#emotions
puppy love phase
noun

The dizzy early stage of new infatuation.

#dating#relationships#early-stage#infatuation
glove up and dig in 18+
phrase

Mature content — open to view.

#medical#nursing#gastro#procedure
Love Bombing
verb

Overwhelming someone with affection early on to manipulate or hook them.

#gen-z#american#texting
fujoshi
noun

A female fan of Boys' Love / yaoi.

#anime#weeb#fandom#bl
fudanshi
noun

A male fan of Boys' Love / yaoi.

#anime#weeb#fandom#bl
seme 18+
noun

Mature content — open to view.

#anime#weeb#bl#romance
uke 18+
noun

Mature content — open to view.

#anime#weeb#bl#romance
slowdown
noun

Frame-rate drop when the screen's too packed — and shmup players love it.

#shmup#framerate#hardware
ForsenE
noun

Distorted Forsen-face emote that Forsenboys spam to the moon.

#twitch#emote#forsen#spam
1437
phrase

'I love you forever' — one letter per digit.

#tiktok#gen-z#numeric#affection
reverse harem
noun phrase

One heroine, multiple devoted love interests — and she keeps them all.

#booktok#romance#tropes#fandom
morally grey
adjective

A love interest whose ethics bend — dangerous, magnetic, not quite the villain.

#booktok#romance#character#tropes
himbo
noun

Hot, kind, dim — and everyone loves him for it.

#fandom#character#compliment#2020s
only one bed
noun phrase

The trope where the love interests are forced to share a single bed.

#booktok#fanfic#tropes#romance
touch her and you die
phrase

The hyper-protective love-interest trope, distilled.

#booktok#romance#tropes#fandom
fated mates
noun phrase

Paranormal lovers cosmically destined to be together.

#booktok#paranormal#tropes#romance
forced proximity
noun phrase

Love interests stuck together until the tension breaks them.

#booktok#romance#tropes#fandom
LI
noun

Love Interest — the character the protagonist is falling for.

#fanfic#romance#abbreviation#booktok
gilding
noun, verb

Spending real money to award Reddit Gold (or Platinum) to a comment you loved.

#reddit#awards#internet-culture#premium
bab
noun

Brummie 'love' or 'hun' — drops into any sentence like a verbal cuddle.

#brummie#birmingham#black-country#british
cock
noun

Manc term of endearment — mate, pal, love.

#mancunian#manchester#british#greeting
cariad
noun

Love, darling — the Welsh term of endearment.

#welsh#wales#endearment#romance
fila
phrase

'Forever I Love Atlanta' — citywide loyalty tag.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#loyalty
loc
noun

Crip term of endearment — 'Love Of Crip'.

#la#crips#gang-slang#hip-hop
triggerman beat
phrase

The one-bar Showboys loop that powers nearly every New Orleans bounce track.

#nola#bounce#hip-hop#samples
Jerry World
proper noun

Dallas nickname for AT&T Stadium, Jerry Jones's billion-dollar Cowboys palace.

#dallas#texas#cowboys#nfl
pasty
noun

A Cornish-style folded hand pie of meat and potato, beloved in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

#michigan#upper-peninsula#food#cornish
FRED 18+
acronym

Mature content — open to view.

#military#australian-army#acronym#kit