You’ve probably seen the word thrown around online in a news headline, a comment section, or a friend’s rant about a shady business deal. So what does grifter actually mean? A ...
Animosity means a strong feeling of dislike or hatred that often moves toward active hostility. It is more than a simple annoyance. When someone feels animosity, they carry real ill will that can shap...
Tung Tung Tung Sahur means the onomatopoeic sound of a traditional Indonesian drum used to wake people for Sahur, the pre-dawn meal during Ramadan, later turned into a viral AI-generated meme characte...
If you’ve ever stared at a purchase order that says FOB Shanghai and wondered whether that’s good or bad news for your wallet, you’re not alone. FOB stands for Free on Board (s...
Picture a building collapsing straight down into its own footprint instead of blasting outward in a cloud of debris. That’s an implosion, and it’s the opposite of what most people pi...
OBO stands for our best offer. You’ll see it tacked onto a price in a classified ad, a Facebook Marketplace listing, or a text about selling something. It tells you the seller picked a sta...
Seeing 1010 everywhere isn’t your imagination playing tricks on you. The 1010 angel number meaning centers on new beginnings, personal alignment, and a nudge from your own intuition to tru...
Complacent means feeling so satisfied with how things are going that you stop noticing risks or working to improve. It’s a quiet kind of danger, because it doesn’t feel like a proble...
If you’ve seen an editor scribble tighten this graph in the margin of a story, you’re not alone in wondering what that word actually means. Graf is newsroom shorthand for paragraph, ...
