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n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Word Usage
"My cohort in skulduggery Jesse just (and when I say just I mean four or five days ago) posted a nice blurb on the strange and stupid phenomenon of using “gay” as an adjective to describe things other than a person who is a homosexual."