1980s neologisms

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Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities. It is alternately used to refer to people who reject sexual and gender norms and share radical politics characterized by solidarity across lines of identity. Queer is also a self-identity term for many people (similar to but distinct from gay, lesbian, and bisexual), characterized by rejection or disruption of binary categories of sexual orientation and gender.

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aggressive and fast subgenre of punk rock

Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996. Most millennials are the children of baby boomers and older members of Generation X, and are often the parents of members of Generation Alpha.

Emo ( ) is a genre of rock music that combines musical characteristics of hardcore punk with emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of hardcore punk and from the Washington, D.C., hardcore scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore. The bands Rites of Spring and Embrace, among others, pioneered the genre. In the late 1980s, Maryland bands Moss Icon and the Hated adopted and reinvented this sound, putting less influence on its punk roots. In the early-to-mid 1990s, their influence led emo to be adopted by alternative rock, indie rock, and pop-punk bands, inc

thumb|Nightscape in Chongqing, China. Artificial landscapes and "city lights at night" were some of the first metaphors used by the genre for cyberspace (in [[Neuromancer, by William Gibson).]]

political influence without the use of force

subgenre of rock and roll music

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intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work

Masculism or masculinism may variously refer to ideologies and socio-political movements that seek to eliminate discrimination against men, or the promotion of masculine ideals. The terms may also refer to the men's rights movement or men's movement, as well as antifeminism or machismo.

experimental rock music mixed with noise

thumb|thumbtime=16:09|Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981. Reaganomics (; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey), or Reaganism, were the neoliberal economic policies promoted by Ronald Reagan, president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. These policies focused mainly on supply-side economics. Opponents (including some Republicans) characterized them as "trickle-down economics" or Voodoo Economics, while Reagan and his advocates preferred to call it free-market economics.

approach to culinary arts based on scientific understanding and techniques

region of the United States in the Midwest and the Great Lakes, in which industry declined since the 1980s, experiencing deindustrialization, economic decline, population loss, or urban decay

A backronym treats an already existing word as an acronym and expands its letters into the words of a phrase, and so is effectively an acrostic. The word is a portmanteau of back and acronym. Backronyms may be invented with either serious or humorous intent, or they may be a type of false etymology or folk etymology.

Glocalization or glocalisation (a portmanteau of globalization and localism) is the "simultaneous occurrence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies in contemporary social, political, and economic systems". The concept "represents a challenge to simplistic conceptions of globalization processes as linear expansions of territorial scales. Glocalization indicates that the growing importance of continental and global levels is occurring together with the increasing salience of local and regional levels."

music genre

music genre

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late-20th-century political term

Outing is the act of disclosing an LGBTQ person's sexual orientation or gender identity without their consent. It is often done for malicious reasons, either to instrumentalize homophobia, biphobia, and/or transphobia in order to discredit someone, or to combat homophobia, heterosexism, and/or cissexism by revealing that a prominent or respected individual is homosexual and/or transgender. Historical examples of outing include the Krupp affair, the Eulenburg affair, the Röhm scandal, George Michael's April 1998 arrest, Ricky Martin's 2000 interview with Barbara Walters, and the Larry Craig sca

cultural norms associated with men that are harmful to society and to men themselves

human disease

Abusive lawsuits intended to burden an opponent rather than to win or gain financially

Lollywood is Pakistan's Punjabi film industry, but has served as the base for both Urdu- and Punjabi-language film production.

hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario

music genre

anti-consumerist social movements tactic to disrupt or subvert media culture

"DINK" is an acronym that stands for double income, no kids or dual income, no kids, referring to couples who are voluntarily childless. It describes a couple without children living together while both partners are receiving an income; because both of their wages are coming into the same household, they are able to live more comfortable economically than couples who live together and spend their money on raising their children. The term was coined at the height of yuppie culture in the 1980s. The Great Recession solidified this social trend, as more couples waited longer to have children or c

youth subculture

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In Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community who observes, but does not participate by posting or commenting. The exact definition depends on context. Lurkers make up a large proportion of all users in online communities. Lurking allows users to learn the conventions of an online community before they participate, improving their socialization when they eventually "de-lurk". However, a lack of social contact while lurking sometimes causes loneliness or apathy among lurkers.

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thumb|McDonald's staff in Quezon City, Philippines "McJob" is a slang term for a low-paying, low-prestige dead-end job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of advancement. The term "McJob" comes from the name of the fast-food restaurant McDonald's, but is used to describe any low-status jobregardless of employerwhere little training is required, staff turnover is high, and workers' activities are tightly regulated by managers.

lesbian who exhibits a greater amount of feminine gender attributes relative to other gender expressions, e.g. make-up, wearing dresses or skirts, etc.

extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media

subgenre of literature

An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea. It generally includes a toll-free telephone number or website. Most often used as a form of direct response television (DRTV), they are often programlength commercials (long-form infomercials), and are typically 28:30 or 58:30 minutes in length. Infomercials are also known as "paid programming" (or "teleshopping" in Europe). This phenomenon started in the United States, where infomercials were typically shown overnight and early morning (us

thumb|Thagomizer on a mounted Stegosaurus tail A thagomizer () is the distinctive arrangement of spike-shaped osteoderms on the tails of some stegosaurian dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators.

Christian political ideology seeking to institute a nation governed by Christians based on biblical law

video game genre

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Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music. Worldbeat is similar to other cross-pollination labels of contemporary and roots genres, and which suggest a rhythmic, harmonic or textural contrast and synthesis between its modern and ethnic elements.

speculative fiction genre

Plurinationality, plurinational, or plurinationalism is defined as the coexistence of two or more sealed or preserved national groups within a polity (an organized community or body of peoples). In plurinationalism, the idea of nationality is plural, meaning there are many nationals within an organized community or body of peoples. Derived from this concept, a plurinational state is the existence of multiple political communities and constitutional asymmetry. The usage of plurinationality assists in avoiding the division of societies within a state or country. Furthermore, a plurinational demo

films distributed to video, criticized for violent content

thumb|Food truck rally|Food truck rallies may draw foodies, who congregate to sample the goods.A foodie is a person who has an ardent or refined interest in food, and who eats food not only out of hunger but also as a hobby. The related terms "gastronome" and "gourmet" define roughly the same thing, i.e. a person who enjoys food for pleasure; the connotation of "foodie" differs slightly—an everyday person with a love for food culture and different foods. Some, such as Paul Levy, say the foodie can still be a "foodist". Foodie in slang can be used to describe someone who searches out food and b

Malaysian trans women

Kiasu () is a term derived from the Hokkien “kia” meaning afraid and “su” meaning to lose. It is commonly defined as “the fear of losing,” and is directed at a person who behaves competitively to either attain their goal or to get ahead of others. The term has been part of the Singlish (formally known as Colloquial Singaporean English) lexicon spoken in Singapore since the 1980s.

artistic and philosophical movement

Opernhauskrawalle (Opera House riots) is the Swiss German term generally used for the youth protests at the end of May 1980 in the Swiss city of Zürich, a municipality in the Canton of Zürich. Also called Züri brännt ("Zürich is burning"), these events marked the 'rebirth' of the alternative youth movement in Switzerland in the 1980s. thumb|upright|Burning of the so-called Böögg on occasion of [[Sechseläuten in 2013, not the youth protests but the same site at Sechseläutenplatz.]]

Chinese word for "comrade"

British slang term

disputed sociological concept

American slang

political ideology characterized by embrace of technology and anti-Enlightenment thought

Rapid spread of fire up an inclined surface