Definition

While you will now primarily encounter leetspeak online, the language dates back to the 1980s. Savvy bulletin board systems (BBS) users formulated it to bypass BBS filters that prohibited the use of certain words.

Origin

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msibo

my side is busting open

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Someone who's great at talking about doing things but never actually follows through. All hype, zero execution—the human equivalent of an empty promise.

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The Dirty Dam

The art of taking laxatives and ducked taping your anus and trying to hold back all of the shit. The winner of The Dirty Dam is the one who holds it back for the longest. The loser of this contest is denied access to a toilet for the next 24 hours.

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Gæ

An edgy alternative spelling of "gay" using the æ ligature, because apparently regular letters are too mainstream. Typically deployed by people who think adding special characters makes their insults more sophisticated, when really it just makes them harder to type.

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