⸻ open to the public · est. 2026 ⸻
The Graveyard
wander the rows. pay your respects. argue with strangers in the comments of life.
✠ enter the grounds in 3d→☠ exhume one at random⸻ 60 remains on displaysort: most recently filed
- uncertain era“sick”Rumored Remains
- uncertain era“sweet”Rumored Remains
- 2010s“cool cool cool”DyingA sitcom tic that escaped and got tired.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“hop on a quick call”Parent-CoreAlive, and never quick.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“double click on that”Parent-CoreSaid by people who mean 'explain more' and could say that.※ starter crypt
- 2000s“take it offline”Parent-CoreMeans the conversation is over.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“ping me”Parent-CoreInstant messaging kept it breathing after the submarine let go.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“thought leader”Parent-CoreA job title people award themselves.※ starter crypt
- 1990s“synergy”Parent-CoreSurvived being the punchline for thirty years.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“boil the ocean”Parent-CoreConsultancy for 'that plan is stupid'.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“move the needle”Parent-CoreThe needle is never specified.※ starter crypt
- 2000s“low-hanging fruit”Parent-CoreThe fruit is always somebody else's job.※ starter crypt
- 1990s“touch base”Parent-CoreLives in calendars. Nobody has touched a base.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“circle back”Parent-CoreMeans the thing will not be done today.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“toque”Regional CryptidCanadian, and it is not a beanie. They will tell you so.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“keener”Regional CryptidCanadian. The only word for the person who did the reading.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“arvo”Regional CryptidAustralian. Shortening a word is the national grammar.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“gutted”Regional CryptidDoes the work of an entire therapy session, from Cornwall to Cork.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“chinwag”Regional CryptidBritish, mostly among people over fifty and grandchildren doing an impression.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“bless your heart”Regional CryptidCarries whichever meaning the speaker intended, and you have to work out which.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“spendy”Regional CryptidPacific Northwest. The polite way to say something is a rip-off.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“hoagie”Regional CryptidConfined to about forty miles around Philadelphia.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“grinder”Regional CryptidConnecticut and Rhode Island. Elsewhere it is a dating app.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“buggy”Regional CryptidA shopping cart in the South and in Pittsburgh. A buggy everywhere else.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“the devil is beating his wife”Regional CryptidA sun shower, across the South. Nobody there finds it strange and everybody else does.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“youse”Regional CryptidShared by Philadelphia, Liverpool and Dublin, which have nothing else in common.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“y'all”Regional CryptidSouthern, and quietly annexing the rest of the country, because English needed it.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“coke”Regional CryptidMeans any fizzy drink across the South, and the waitress will ask which one.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“soda”Regional CryptidCoastal, and the reason the Midwest thinks you are affected.※ starter crypt
- uncertain era“pop”Regional CryptidStandard across the Midwest and most of Canada. Fighting words in Atlanta.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“sigma”DyingBecame ironic almost immediately.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“goated”AliveAn acronym became an adjective became a verb.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“girl dinner”DyingOne viral summer, then brand accounts.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“cooked”AliveTwo opposite meanings, both understood from tone alone.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“the ick”AliveNamed a feeling everybody had and nobody had a word for.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“aura points”AliveA scoring system for behaviour that nobody agreed to.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“let him cook”AliveSports commentary escaped into general use again.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“brainrot”AliveSelf-aware, and named after the thing that produced it.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“npc”AliveEscaped the game and became a way to describe a colleague.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“gyat”AliveConfined to a narrow band, and audible in every corridor of it.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“mid”AliveThe most efficient insult built this century.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“delulu”AliveGetting shorter every quarter.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“ate that”AliveNobody can explain the tense and everybody understands it.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“it's giving”AliveAnnexing every sentence that used to begin 'this feels'.※ starter crypt
- 2020s“understood the assignment”DyingCorporate posts got hold of it fast.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“spilling tea”DyingLeft its community and got flattened by brands.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“hundo p”DeadNever escaped a narrow window.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“same”DyingReplaced by 'real' and 'this is so me'.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“snatched”DyingFollowed the same arc as 'on fleek'.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“woke”Disputed RemainsCaptured and inverted by its opponents.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“flex”AliveLeft the gym in the nineties and never went back.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“ghosting”AliveThe gerund outlived the novelty of the verb.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“receipts”AliveScreenshots gave it a second career.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“dead”AliveAlive, which is a problem this office would rather not discuss.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“yaaas”DyingLeft its community, got worn out by brands.※ starter crypt
- 2000s“tramp stamp”DeadThe judgement inside it stopped being acceptable.※ starter crypt
- 2000s“meh”AliveThe sound of a shrug got a spelling and never left.※ starter crypt
- 2000s“sketch”Dying'Sus' took the whole job.※ starter crypt
- 2010s“cray”DeadShortening a short word had a ceiling.※ starter crypt
- 2000s“fail whale”DeadThe whale was removed; the phrase went with it.※ starter crypt
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