National Champagne Day
Falling annually on December 31 or August 4,聽National Champagne Day is an unofficial holiday all about sipping on some bubbly. Champagne is all that's required!
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fam
Fam,聽short for family,聽is a slang word used for one's close friends鈥攜our people.聽 Hey fam, you're part of our Dictionary.com family, don't worry. -
Rooney Rule
The Rooney Rule is a policy in the NFL that requires a team to interview at least one minority candidate for a head coaching job, general manager position, or other front office position. -
Eastwood Rule
The Eastwood Rule is a rule in the Director's Guild of America that prohibits someone already working on a film (producer, actor, etc.) from firing a director during production and replacing them with themselves. -
Jexodus
Jexodus is the name of a right-wing political effort to encourage Jewish Democrats to leave (as an exodus) and join the Republican party due to the left's supposed anti-Semitic, anti-Israel policies. -
Emoji Challenge
The Emoji Challenge is a viral internet challenge in which participants hilariously reenact or otherwise interpret emoji in real life. -
pornocchio
Pornocchio聽is a term used in various erotic parodies of or popular puns about Pinocchio. It's also occasional slang聽for someone who lies about sex, such as embellishing their escapades, or lies about looking at pornography. -
blorange
Blorange is a blend of blond and orange聽or blood orange, most often used to describe a trendy hair color. -
Tope
Tope is a ship (fictional relationship) of the characters Hope Brady and Ted Laurent on the soap opera聽Days of Our Lives. Tope聽is also an occasional slang blend of tight and dope, like "very cool." -
Bechdel test
The聽Bechdel test聽is an informal way to evaluate bias against women in films and other media. A work is said to pass the Bechdel test聽if it 1) has two (named) women, who 2) talk to each… -
hectocorn
It is the most elusive, and expensive, creature of them all: the聽hectocorn,聽a financial term for a company valued at over $100 billion. -
decacorn
A decacorn is a financial term for a relatively new company that is worth at least $10 billion.