Results for “dead end job”

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dead-end job
noun

A job with no room for advancement or growth.

#corporate#office#work#stagnation
Dead cat bounce
noun

A brief, deceptive price rebound inside a much bigger downtrend.

#finance#wall-street#trading#technical-analysis
dead plate
noun

A misfired, returned or no-longer-servable plate.

#kitchen#boh#restaurant#service
Deadhead
noun, verb

Running with an empty trailer — moving freight-less miles you don't get paid for.

#trucker#cb-radio#logistics#freight
dead horse
noun

Tomato sauce (rhyming slang).

#australian#aussie#food#rhyming-slang
deadset
adjective

Genuine; true; absolutely.

#australian#aussie#idiom#truth
deaders
noun

Meat / dead flesh (avoided in Rasta diet)

#caribbean#patois#rasta#food
deadlift
noun

Lifting a loaded barbell from the floor to a standing lockout.

#gym#fitness#exercise#strength
dead on
phrase

Great, fine, decent (chiefly the North)

#scottish#irish#approval#ulster
dead money
noun

Money in a position that isn't appreciating or paying anything.

#finance#stocks#wsb#stagnation
dead presidents
noun

US paper money.

#finance#stocks#wsb#cash
dead shovel
noun

A man who dies of a heart attack while shoveling snow

#medical#nursing#cardiac#seasonal
dead sailor
noun

A failed trick where the rider stays rigid in the air before landing.

#skater#surf#bmx#crash
deadass tired
phrase

Genuinely exhausted

#american#regional#state#exhaustion
Deadly
adjective

Excellent, brilliant, class — Irish for something genuinely great.

#irish#uk
Deadass
adverb

Means 'seriously' or 'for real' — you're not joking even a little.

#aave#american#gen-z#2000s
Dead
adjective

So funny you're metaphorically dying of laughter — or totally done.

#gen-z#aave#meme#internet
Deadstock
noun

Brand-new, never-worn gear — especially sneakers still in original condition with the box.

#american#money#gen-z
on dead dawgs
phrase

Boston oath — I'm dead serious, on my dead friends.

#boston#hip-hop#regional#oath
happy ending 18+
phrase

Mature content — open to view.

#sex-work#massage-parlour#euphemism
extend
noun

An extra life — earned by hitting a score threshold or clearing a task.

#shmup#lives#scoring
skinny legend
phrase

Highest-tier stan compliment for someone iconic.

#stan-twitter#compliment#fandom#ironic
tendies
noun

Trading profits, imagined as a reward of chicken tenders.

#wallstreetbets#trading#reddit#meme
my wife's boyfriend
phrase

WSB self-deprecating bit casting yourself as the cuck loser-husband.

#wallstreetbets#crypto#trading#meme
jobe
noun

A taxi — Liverpool's word for flagging a cab.

#scouse#liverpool#transport#british
bendigedig
adjective

Welsh for wonderful, marvellous, brilliant — the North's preferred word over 'lush'.

#welsh#north-wales#wales#praise
Endz
noun

Your neighbourhood — your block, your zone.

#uk-drill#nyc-drill#hip-hop#neighborhood
Kuykendahl
proper noun

North Houston street whose 'Kirk-en-doll' pronunciation outs you as local or tourist.

#houston#texas#geography#shibboleth
Tail-end Charlie
phrase

Rear gunner in a WWII bomber — the most exposed crewman on the aircraft.

#military#raf#wwii#bomber-command
public pretender
noun

Mocking nickname for a public defender seen as useless.

#prison#legal#us#slang
horrendoma
noun

Horrendous + -oma — the spectacularly grim case nobody wants.

#medical#hospital#residency#mock-latin
Splenda daddy
noun

Wannabe sugar daddy who can't actually afford a sugar baby.

#sex-work#sugar-dating#pejorative
double blended
phrase

Frappuccino sent through the blender twice.

#coffee#retail#barista#starbucks
tender
noun

A big rolling water tank for fires where there are no hydrants.

#firefighter#fire service#rural#apparatus
legendary
adjective

Ballroom status earned after roughly a decade of winning category trophies.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#status
this is not RuPaul's Best Friend Race
phrase

The reminder that you came to compete, not to make friends.

#drag#rupaul#competition#lgbtq
friend of Dorothy
phrase

Mid-20th-century coded phrase for a gay man.

#lgbtq#polari#gay#history
lavender menace
noun phrase

1970 slur for lesbians in feminism, flipped into a battle cry within a year.

#lesbian#feminism#lgbtq#history
dry as a dead dingo's donger 18+
phrase

Mature content — open to view.

#australian#aussie#idiom#humour
servo attendant
noun

A petrol-station worker.

#australian#aussie#work#driving