Results for “love bug”

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lovebug
noun

An affectionate nickname for a sweetheart.

#dating#relationships#endearment#cute
lovely jubbly
interjection

Expression of delight; Del Boy catchphrase.

#cockney#london#british#exclamation
lovesick
adjective

Miserable or preoccupied because of romantic longing.

#dating#relationships#longing#emotions
Love Bombing
verb

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

#gen-z#american#texting
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
bug juice
noun

The fruit-flavored drink served in the mess — Navy Kool-Aid.

#military#navy#chow#mess-deck
Bug
noun

A split-bolt connector used to splice heavy electrical conductors.

#construction#electrical#tools#wiring
rollover
noun

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

#firefighter#fire service#fire behavior#technical
buggy
noun

The chief's SUV — or the truck that hauls a wildland crew.

#firefighter#fire service#wildland#apparatus
buggered
adjective

Exhausted; also broken.

#australian#aussie#state#tiredness
bugger
interjection

Damn; an expression of annoyance.

#australian#aussie#exclamation
bugger all
phrase

Nothing; very little.

#australian#aussie#quantity#idiom
bugger off
phrase

Go away; clear off.

#australian#aussie#idiom#dismissal
one love
phrase

Unity / a warm goodbye — 'one love'

#caribbean#patois#rasta#greeting
humbug
verb

To bother, pester or annoy.

#caribbean#patois#annoyance#behaviour
gawd love a duck
interjection

An exclamation of surprise or exasperation.

#cockney#london#british#exclamation
june bug
noun

A weak inmate exploited to do others' chores.

#prison#criminal#status#safety
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
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
boys' love
noun

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

#anime#weeb#genre#romance
Buggin
verb

Freaking out, overreacting, or acting crazy — your wires are tripping.

#90s#aave#american#hip-hop
Bug Out
verb

To panic, freak out, or flee — to come apart or bolt under pressure.

#beatnik#1950s#beat-generation#vintage
Struggle Buggy
noun

The back seat of a courting couple's car, where a flapper had to 'struggle' to keep things proper.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
Jitterbug
noun

An energetic swing dancer, or the wild, acrobatic dance they did to hot jazz.

#harlemese#jive#1930s#harlem-renaissance
slowdown
noun

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

#shmup#framerate#hardware
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