New Words
last update: 17 May 2020
New words… new definitions
All this section does is register new words or expressions that have come across my screen… and are new to me. Hope it's not all gibberish.
5150 - California police code for 'escaped lunatic'
Algebra - a cruel pointless subject still taught in schools
Antidextrous - not good with either hand
Area 51% - the area of the US that votes Republican
Autopilot - what most people do at work
Awfuliser - someone who always predicts the worst outcome
Bangalored - relocated to India
Bizza - a big pizza
Boomer holes - a house with holes for cable TV and landlines previously owned by a baby-boomer
Bounty bar - a white-acting black person
Clean-skin - without a criminal record (also lily-white)
Click-to-Call (Click-to-Talk) - when a customer clicks on an object and it completes a call to a person in real-time
Cobrowsing - two people accessing and navigating the same webpage at the same time
Conehead - scientist, brainy person
Conversion - is when a visitor completes a desired goal (e.g. purchase, fills out a form, provides an email address), and the percentage that converts is called a conversion rate (see conversion marketing and conversion rate optimisation)
Corporate Death Burger - McDonalds
Dictionary - a paperweight, an archaic way to look up words before Wikipedia and spellchecking
DNF - Did Not Find (or Did Not Finish)
Dot gone - unsuccessful Internet company
Dronies - those who snap images using drones
Dropshipping - selling products they've never handled, from countries they've never visited, to consumers they've never met
DYKWIA - Do You Know Who I Am!
Foot fault - a minor criminal violation
Funnels - a marketing funnel helps/simplifies the set of steps a customer has to go through (to a 'conversion')
Gringoland - USA
Haircut - a reduction in the value of an asset
HMWI - High Net Worth Individual
House hippo - a rotund house pet
IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer
Idiot box - Television
IDK - I don't know
IMO - In My Opinion (IMHO - In My Humble Opinion)
IRL - In Real Life
Jesus year - a persons 33rd year of life
Lexifascist - someone who corrects others' language with an uppity attitude
Marinate - to sit around and do nothing
Micro-influencer - a sub-set of influencer marketing, i.e. people who have between 1,000 and 100,000 followers and are considered expert and trusted in a narrow field or niche
On-brand - something that correlates with your identity or public image
Pain Point - recurring problems that customers experience frequently, sometimes stopping them from completing a transaction
PDF - Please Don't Forget
Perfumed prince - bureaucrat or careerist
Pizza Production Engineer - someone who puts toppings on pre-formed pizza bases
Plusing - continually improving something
Prescriptibitch - someone who is evil about correcting grammatical mistakes
Retargeting - targeted advertising based upon a consumers previous internet activity, e.g. webpage they have previously viewed
See Food Diet - you see the food, and then eat it
Shift F7 - derives from the shortcut for the thesaurus in a Microsoft Word document, so 'Shift F7' replaces the word you could not remember or find, e.g. "its just so … shift F7"
Shapeware - underwear designed to alter (smooth, control, lift, compress) a persons body shape (for the better)
Spelling - a lost art
Stan - a super or extreme fan of something or someone
Stovepiping - transmit raw information to a higher level inside an organisation through an isolated and narrow channel
SWMBO - She Who Must Be Obeyed
Thore - Think more, e.g. "I need to thore before I answer"
TMI - Too Much Information
Truthiness - a seemingly truthful assertion not supported by evidence or facts
UCLA - University for Caucasians Lost among Asians
Voodoo poll - untrustworthy results
Weble - alternative for web-log (blog)
WFH - Working From Home
Wirate - getting angry with a slow Internet connection