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robot
thumb|ASIMO (2000) at the [[Expo 2005]]
pop music
genre of popular music
googol
A googol is the large number 10100 or ten to the power of one hundred. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Its systematic name is ten duotrigintillion (short scale) or ten sexdecilliard (long scale). Its prime factorization is 2100 × 5100.

environmentalism
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings. While environmentalism focuses on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism. Ecologism is a term more commonly used in continental European languages, while environmentalism is more commonly used in English, but the words have slightly different connotations.

disinformation
Disinformation is false or misleading information deliberately spread to deceive people, or to secure economic or political gain and which may cause public harm. Disinformation is an orchestrated adversarial activity in which actors employ strategic deceptions and media manipulation tactics to advance political, military, or commercial goals. Disinformation is implemented through coordinated campaigns that "weaponize multiple rhetorical strategies and forms of knowing—including not only falsehoods but also truths, half-truths, and value judgements—to exploit and amplify culture wars and other
gay
thumb|261x261px|The Rainbow flag (LGBTQ)|rainbow flag, a common symbol representing gay people, or more recently, the overall [[LGBTQ community.]]
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
googolplex
A googolplex is the large number , that is, raised to the power of a googol. If written out in ordinary decimal notation, it would be followed by a googol (10100) a physically impossible number to write explicitly .
false friend
words in two languages that sound similar but have very different meanings

paranormal
Paranormal events are purported or imagined phenomena described in popular culture, folklore, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Notable paranormal beliefs include those that pertain to extrasensory perceptions (for example, telepathy), and the pseudosciences of ghost hunting, cryptozoology, and ufology.
lifestyle
Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture. The term "style of life" () was introduced by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in his 1929 book, The Case of Miss R., with the meaning of "a person's basic character as established early in childhood". The broader sense of lifestyle as a "way or style of living" has been documented since 1961. Lifestyle is a combination of determining intangible or tangible factors. Tangible factors relate specifically to demographic variables, i.e. an individual's demographic profile, whe
Lost Generation
generation that came of age during World War I, born from 1883 to 1900
Bible Belt
region in the southeastern and south-central United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is common

spoonerism
thumb|An example of spoonerism on a protest placard in London: "Buck Frexit" instead of "Fuck [[Brexit"]]
A spoonerism is an occurrence of speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words of a phrase. These are named after the Oxford don and priest William Archibald Spooner, who reportedly commonly spoke in this way.
Shōwa era
period of Japanese history within the 20th century CE (1926-1989)

Untermensch
thumb|upright=0.95|Cover of the Nazi propaganda brochure "Der Untermensch" ("The Subhuman"), 1942. The SS booklet depicted the natives of Eastern Europe as "subhumans".
Untermensch (; plural: Untermenschen) is a German language word literally meaning 'underman', 'sub-man', or 'subhuman', which was extensively used by Germany's Nazi Party to refer to their opponents and non-Aryan people they deemed as inferior. It was mainly used against "the masses from the East", that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs (mainly ethnic Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Russians and Serbs).
American exceptionalism
ideology holding the United States as unique among nations; facet of nationalism in the United States
clerical fascism
ideology that combines the doctrines of fascism with clericalism
gigolo
A gigolo ( ) is a male escort, call boy or social companion who is supported by a person in a continuing relationship.

dispensationalism
Dispensationalism is a Christian theological framework for interpreting the Christian Bible which maintains that history is divided into multiple ages called dispensations in which God interacts with his chosen people in different ways. It is often distinguished from covenant theology, the traditional Reformed view of reading the Bible. These are two competing frameworks of biblical theology that attempt to explain overall continuity in the Bible. The coining of the term "dispensationalism" has been attributed to Philip Mauro, a critic of the system's teachings, in his 1928 book The Gospel of
show trial
public trial in which the guilt of the defendant is predetermined
blue-collar worker
working class laborer who performs skilled or unskilled manual labor
big lie
gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth
Jazz Age
American period in the 1920s and 1930s
social fascism
communist term for social democracy
homophile
archaic term for homosexual
regime change
replacement of one political regime (system) with another

bunkobon
thumb|An assortment of bunkobon in a bookshop
In Japan, are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and space-saving.
transnationalism
Transnationalism is a research field and social phenomenon grown out of the heightened interconnectivity between people and the receding economic and social significance of boundaries among nation states.
acalculia
Acalculia is an acquired impairment in which people have difficulty performing simple mathematical tasks, such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and even simply stating which of two numbers is larger. The condition has substantial negative impact on the wellbeing and independence of those affected. Acalculia is distinguished from dyscalculia in that acalculia is acquired late in life due to neurological injury such as a stroke, while dyscalculia is a specific developmental disorder first observed during the acquisition of mathematical knowledge. The name comes from the Greek meaning "not" a
somatization
Somatization is the generation of somatic symptoms due to psychological distress, often coinciding with a tendency to seek medical help for them. The term somatization was introduced by Wilhelm Stekel in 1924.
Singin' in the Rain
original song composed by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed; from the 1929 musical "The Hollywood Music Box Revue"
dyke
reappropriated term used to refer to lesbians
Creswellian culture
archaeological culture
socialist calculation debate
question of whether central planners can achieve rational, efficient allocations of economic resources for society
Mainline Protestantism
older, more establishment Protestant denominations
Patria Grande
concept of a shared homeland or community encompassing all of Spanish America

Cultural Bolshevism
nazi slogan opposing modernist and progressive cultural movements
Jocasta complex
incestuous sexual desire that a mother has towards her child
phallocentrism
Phallocentrism is the ideology that the phallus, or male sexual organ, is the central element in the organization of the social world. Phallocentrism has been analyzed in literary criticism, psychoanalysis and psychology, linguistics, medicine and health care, and philosophy.
red line
figurative phrase meaning a limit past which something shouldn't cross
Okie
An Okie is a person identified with the state of Oklahoma, or their descendants. This connection may be residential, historical or cultural. For most Okies, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Oklahoman. While not an official demographic used or recognized by the United States Census Bureau, Okies, due to various factors, have developed their own distinct culture within larger social groupings both akin to and separate from Midwestern and Southern influences. Included are their own dialect, music, and Indigenous-derived folklore.
better dead than red
Cold War slogan
oceanic feeling
a feeling of being one with the world
Mickey Mousing
animation technique

G-Man
thumb|Poster for the 1935 film G Men
thumb|right|American World War II home front poster "Don't be an Amateur G-man!"
G-man (short for "government man", plural G-men) is an American slang term for agents of the United States Government. It is especially used as a term for an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
smart casual
ambiguously defined Western dress code
wetback
derogatory term mostly referring to Mexican immigrants to the USA
Gay Nineties
American nostalgic term referring to the decade of the 1890s.
Philistine Bichrome ware
archaeological term
Pinko
Pinko is a pejorative term for a person on the left of the political spectrum. The term has its origins in the notion that pink is a lighter shade of red, a color associated with communism. Thus pink could describe a "lighter form of communism", purportedly promoted by supporters and believers of socialism who were not themselves actual or "card carrying" communists. The term pinko has a pejorative sense, whereas "pink" in this definition can be used in a purely descriptive sense, such as in the term pink tide.