Results for “engine room”

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engine
noun

A tireless midfielder who covers huge distances.

#sports#midfield#stamina
Boiler room
noun

A high-pressure phone-bank operation cold-calling retail to dump dodgy stock.

#finance#wall-street#fraud#sales
Blue Room
noun

Jobsite name for the porta-potty — because they're nearly always blue.

#construction#trades#jobsite#sanitation
champagne room
noun

Private back room at a strip club you rent by the hour for premium dances and bottle service.

#sex-work#strip-club#vip
rage-bait
noun

Content engineered to piss you off so you engage.

#tiktok#internet-culture#engagement#media
engagement farming
noun

Posting bait engineered purely to harvest replies, quotes and rage-clicks.

#twitter#x#algorithm#discourse
ratio bait
noun

A tweet engineered to get ratioed — designed to provoke pile-on replies.

#twitter#engagement#ratio#bait
e-girl
noun

Online-native female persona built around a chat-room or Discord following.

#internet#subculture#aesthetic#discord
booktok
noun

TikTok's reader corner — the algorithm-powered engine selling out backlist romance and fantasy.

#tiktok#books#gen-z#community
this is fine
phrase

Smiling-dog-in-a-burning-room catchphrase for pretending everything's okay when it absolutely isn't.

#webcomic#reaction#denial#2010s
AITA
abbreviation

Am I The Asshole — Reddit's moral courtroom, in acronym form.

#reddit#acronym#judgment#drama
karma farm
noun

A post engineered purely to harvest upvotes, usually by cynically pushing the hivemind's buttons.

#reddit#karma#behavior#spam
beezum
noun

A broom — the proper twiggy old-school besom kind.

#brummie#black country#domestic#midlands
shotgun house
noun

Long narrow NOLA house with rooms in a straight line front to back.

#nola#architecture#southern#hip-hop
Shotgun
noun

Narrow NOLA row house with rooms strung in a single line, no hallway.

#nola#architecture#housing#new-orleans
GOMER
noun

Get Out of My Emergency Room — the old, chronic, hopeless patient ER docs dread.

#medical#hospital#er#acronym
FOH
noun

Front of house — dining room, bar, host stand, anything the guest touches.

#kitchen#foh#restaurant#acronym
10-100
interjection

Pit stop — pulling over for a bathroom break.

#trucker#cb-radio#ten-code#humor
Jake brake
noun

An engine compression brake that lets a diesel slow itself with a loud rapid-fire bark.

#trucker#cb-radio#diesel#mechanical
house mom
phrase

The dressing-room manager who looks after the dancers.

#sex-work#stripping#club#staff
ghost restaurant
noun

Delivery-only kitchen with no dining room.

#restaurant#delivery#business#ghost-kitchen
flashover
noun

The moment everything combustible in a room ignites at once.

#firefighter#fire service#fire behavior#technical
bail-out
noun

Emergency escape out a window when the room turns on you.

#firefighter#fire service#survival#rescue
house
noun

A chosen-family crew in ballroom culture, led by a mother and/or father, that competes together at balls.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#chosen-family
father
noun

The co-leader of a ballroom house, ranking alongside the mother.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#chosen-family
children
noun

The younger members of a ballroom house — the offspring of its mother and father.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#chosen-family
legendary
adjective

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

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#status
icon
noun

The top tier of ballroom prestige — above legendary, for those who shaped the scene.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#status
banjee
noun

A streetwise, tough, masculine urban type — also a ballroom realness category.

#ballroom#realness#lgbtq#nyc
sex siren
phrase

A ballroom category judged on overt sensual seduction in performance.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#competition
face
noun

A ballroom category judged purely on facial beauty and bone structure.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#competition
body
noun

Ballroom category judged purely on your physique — shape, proportions, the skin you're serving.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#category
bizarre
noun

Ballroom category demanding a look so strange and alien you stop reading as human.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#category
OTA
noun

Open To All — a ballroom category anyone can walk regardless of gender identity or expression.

#ballroom#lgbtq#category#trans
butch queen
noun

Ballroom term for a gay or bisexual cis man — the scene's largest gender population.

#ballroom#lgbtq#gender#vogue
femme queen
noun

Ballroom term for a trans woman.

#ballroom#lgbtq#trans#gender
butch queen up in pumps
phrase

A man serving full female illusion in drag for a ballroom category.

#ballroom#lgbtq#drag#gender
butches
noun

Ballroom term for trans men within the scene's gender system.

#ballroom#lgbtq#trans#gender
death drop
noun

The mainstream/Drag Race name for the dip, a backward stunt-fall to the floor; ballroom calls it a misnomer.

#drag#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq
reading
noun

The art of the witty, pointed insult, exposing someone's flaw so sharp the room laughs.

#ballroom#drag#lgbtq#paris-is-burning