Definition

While DTN4L and DTN surfaced in the late-2010s, they didn't become mainstream popular until 2022. For the grammar police, "don't trust no one" is a double negative, but the abbreviation is meant to warn others about who they trust or be used as a mantra to move forward in their love life.

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Corporate slop bowl

TikTok's delightfully cynical term for the assembly-line bowl meals consumed by office workers who've convinced themselves that their $15 Sweetgreen salad is somehow different from everyone else's $15 Sweetgreen salad. It's not about the food—it's about the existential dread of conformity served in a compostable container. Bonus points if you eat it while staring dead-eyed at a spreadsheet.

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aslr

age sex location race

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Bigger

Racial slang word for Tall person. Commonly used by "little people". These "little people" tend to believe themselves to be discriminated by size and proportion. They also tend to refer to themselves as the "master race", that god made them in his own image, etc.

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ISTR

In some cases (like above), people use ISTR even when they exactly recall the thing they're talking about. These people likely began their message with ISTR in an attempt to not seem overly assertive or pushy.

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Bruh

Some sources date "bruh" back to the 19th century as a shortened form for "brother" (particularly in the Black community) that extended to the 20th century. It then gained a resurgence in the 1990s among laid-back skaters and surfers, along withbrahandbroham, as a way to address each other (typically in a friendly manner).

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DM

Those who play first-person shooters (FPS) use DM to mean "deathmatch." In deathmatch games, players score points by killing other players.

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